Yale University has bought the Hull's Art Supply building -- one of the few independently owned storefronts near the corner of Chapel and York streets -- for $2.4 million. Owner Shawn Szirbik has a ...

Three days after a fire engulfed his Chapel Street apartment building, six-year-old Jalal Azizi went down to a Long Wharf hotel’s lobby and picked up a new backpack from a city employee. He then ...

I was at environmental start-up platform ClimateHaven ’s quarterly networking event, Green Drinks. Whizzing past my head were words like “revenue,” “volatility,” and “scaling the solution.” I was, as ...

Mayor Justin Elicker unveiled a budget proposal Friday afternoon that would see the general fund increase by 4.4 percent -- and the tax rate jump by 4.01 percent -- thanks in part to the rising costs ...

Black Violin’s ability to genre-hop was most apparent when they played canonical works like Vivaldi’s “Spring” and Bach’s “Concerto No. 3.” Marcus and Baptiste would start off reverently playing the ...

An arrest warrant affidavit written by Hamden Animal Control Officer Barbara Godejohn on Feb. 17, and obtained by the Independent on Friday, states that Godejohn received a call from a state animal ...

An early-morning fire Friday displaced four tenants from a Chapel Street house that happens to be located a block away from where a major fire displaced dozens of tenants from a five-story building ...

Amidst the rise of liberation theology, a 12-year civil war raged in El Salvador from 1980 through 1992 with the repressive El Salvadoran government openly hostile to the Jesuit priests because they ...

The Whalley storefront "High Bro's" may still have a punny name about pot and video games -- as well as a mural depicting Luigi handing a joint to Mario. But according to a clerk, the shop has fully ...

The vote in Hamden for approval — that is, the vote to guide the town’s delegate being sent to Hartford, a Mr. Theophilus Goodyear — was definitively negative: “yeas 5, nays 73.” Yet, and perhaps ...

A 33-year-old New Havener has been charged with the illegal disposal of Jasmine Wilkes' body in Edgewood Park.

As Tweed representatives described their plan to mitigate harm to wetlands as they prepare to expand the airport, neighbors remained skeptical: How could they be sure?