by Dereen Shirnekhi and Thomas Breen Tabitha Sookdeo: “Let’s bring her home.” A statewide immigrant-advocacy group interrupted their Great Give fundraising Thursday with an urgent request — after a Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) nursing student detained by ICE was newly granted a $15,000 bond. CT Students for a Dream Executive Director Tabitha Sookdeo sent out that “Urgent Action” email at 3...

by Mona Mahadevan and Thomas Breen The New Haven independent A sitting state judge took the stand in a wrongful-conviction trial Thursday morning and said over and over again that,...

by Dereen Shirnekhi and Thomas Breen Tabitha Sookdeo: “Let’s bring her home.” A statewide immigrant-advocacy group interrupted their Great Give fundraising Thursday with an urgent request — after a Southern Connecticut...

by Thomas Breen The New Haven independent That’s a big check! Redev plans for Westville Manor and 34 Level. A decade-long overhaul of hundreds of units of west-side public housing took another...

by Donald Eng CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — Gov. Ned Lamont congratulated the state legislature for a job well done Thursday, about 12 hours after the final gavel came down ending...

By Claire Armstrong   “We don’t need! We don’t need! We don’t need-no-billion-aaa-irrr-es!” sang Jo Wilber, dressed in a puffy blue-and-pink unicorn costume that glowed turquoise in the sunshine. A...

Lucy Gellman Arts Council of greater New Haven Co-Op senior Trinity Stephens with Lauren Anderson and Erin Michaud.  In Erin Michaud’s second-floor art classroom at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School,...

by Maya McFadden The New Haven independent JCD preschool educator Susie Iovanne: Small treats go a long way. JCD’s Mrs. GG, Patricia McGovern, Cassandra Diaz, Asst. Principal Robert Manghnani, Principal Yesenia...

by Staff Odell Edward Stewart, Jr., of New Haven and Hamden, Connecticut, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, after a short illness. He was born in Columbia, South...

by Staff The Independent has received 13 awards from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists (CTSPJ) for our reporting on ICE arrests, housing, and local reverberations of national stories. The honors,...

by Thomas Breen Those two organizations are CitySeed and Fair Haven Community Health Care. They are two of more than 500 local nonprofits participating in the 17th annual New Haven “Great...

by Mona Mahadevan David Zannelli’s wife, Natasha, and their three kids — Santino, Cristina, and Michael — watched proudly from the front row. After spending the past four months leading the...

by Lisa Reisman The New Haven independent Neighbors, town officials, and project consultants came together at Hamden’s Keefe Community Center to continue carving a path forward in the decades-long struggle...