May 2, 2025 · Breaking news, analysis, and in-depth features about New Haven's people, politics, neighborhoods, schools, economic development, health care and more.

Apr 15, 2025 · Somebody shot and killed a 15-year-old New Havener on Greenwood Street in a targeted attack Tuesday afternoon. Police responded to Greenwood Street between Legion Avenue and Sylvan Avenue in the Hill a little before 3:30 p.m., according to city police spokesperson Officer Christian Bruckhart. Yellow ...

Apr 29, 2025 · Owen H. Chambers lived a full and meaningful life. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1928, Owen spent the earlier part of his childhood growing up in the parish of St. Elizabeth (Kilmarnock / New Market) where he fondly recalled and spoke about his experiences there learning and watching his grandparents, John Brown (“Pa B.”) and Ellen Clarke Brown (“Mammy”) working and living off the land.

Apr 3, 2025 · The areas served by the pilot program. In New Haven’s two-year pilot program, which launched in mid-March, Via will pick up and drop off passengers within areas of the city where residents are less likely to own cars: primarily parts of the Hill, West River, Edgewood, Whalley, Beaver Hills, Newhallville, Fair Haven, and Downtown.

The new grassroots journalism is happening on the Internet, and it is happening in local communities — picking up the pieces of a mission abandoned by media corporations that bought up local newspapers and radio stations, merged newsrooms, created monopolies, eviscerated editorial budgets, and abandoned the in-depth, knowledgeable, passionate, grassroots news reporting vital to the health of ...

Mar 27, 2025 · Abbey Kim Photo. Jorell Alford, Mell Savage, and other U-ACT organizers listen to Elicker's budget presentation. Unhoused activists took their proposed “ People’s Budget” directly to Mayor Justin Elicker Wednesday evening — bringing signs, printed copies of their proposal, tents, and calls for more money for homelessness services to …

Apr 23, 2025 · Protesters jeer attendees as they leave the event; water bottles were thrown at Ben-Gvir. Video by Nathaniel Rosenberg. (Updated) Up to 200 protesters ranging from kaffiyeh-clad pro-Palestine activists to yarmulke-wearing pro-Israel Jews gathered at the intersection of Orange and Trumbull streets Wednesday evening to protest the arrival of far right-wing Israeli National Security Minister ...

Apr 28, 2025 · Instagram photo. Booker celebrates first-round pick at last Thursday's draft. When the Dallas Cowboys selected former Elm City Pop Warner Mighty Mite Tyler Booker as their first pick in the 2025 NFL draft, family and friends of the burly offensive lineman rejoiced, as did the fans of the beleaguered Cowboys franchise. So did New Haven. Booker is only the second New Haven native to be selected ...

Mar 28, 2025 · Thomas Breen file photo. Mayor Elicker: "We’re doing the best we can with the resources we have.” Three years after Mayor Justin Elicker announced that the city’s public libraries would be open on Sundays, all five branches remain closed on that weekend day — with no plan in place to make that previously promised change a reality.

Apr 30, 2025 · Maya McFadden Photo. Cross educator Brian Grindrod: Civics education is actively suffering due to Trump cuts. The Trump administration’s recent termination of $600 million in teacher training grants nationwide — as part of a broader push to dismantle the federal Department of Education entirely — means that five New Haven educators cannot receive training this summer to teach their ...