Even before the stay-at-home orders were officially issued in late March, Sarah Keitt had begun a two-week period of quarantine in her Fairfield home, isolated from her husband and two children. “It was lonely, it was painful to have basically no contact other than yelling up and down the stairs to people,” she said.

Across New England, tensions already existed between year-round residents and "part-timers." Now, as coronavirus pushes more people from crowded cities to rural second homes, it's raised the question: "Whose town is this anyway?"

With wedding season 2020 happening amid a global pandemic, Connecticut’s engaged couples are facing unforeseen challenges.

There are plenty of pitfalls for consumers trying to navigate the new commercial landscape during COVID-19 , and that means there’s plenty of work for the office of Connecticut Attorney General William Tong. He spoke recently with Connecticut Public Radio’s John Henry Smith about couples trying to get refunds on canceled weddings, securing adequate PPE for the state, fighting fraud in the age of coronavirus, and the federal Department of Justice’s decision in the Michael Flynn case.

Americans have an obsession with dandelions. This much maligned weed, actually was brought to North American for its culinary and medicinal uses. It's high in vitamins and was considered a delicacy during Victorian times.

Those in nursing homes and senior care facilities -- along with the thousands of workers whose job it is to try to keep them safe -- are statistically still at the greatest risk of contracting the coronavirus and dying from it. As of last week, just over 1,600 nursing home residents statewide had died from COVID-19 , accounting for more than half of the coronavirus-related deaths in Connecticut.

Imagine going to the hospital with what feels like a cold. You’re admitted. The next thing you find out is that days have passed while you were sedated on a ventilator fighting a severe case of C OVID-19 . And you’ve survived.

Gov. Ned Lamont has removed his public health commissioner. Lamont announced Renee Coleman-Mitchell’s abrupt dismissal in a press release Tuesday morning. Lamont later acknowledged that he fired her. But, according to the Connecticut Mirror , he declined to give a detailed rationale, other than a desire for closer coordination among state agencies as Connecticut approaches the first phase of easing COVID-19 restrictions on retailers and some other businesses.

Some nonessential businesses in Connecticut will reopen in about a week after being closed down for two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Ned Lamont issued an executive order that shuttered them on March 16 to encourage social distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak. But a recent announcement that businesses like hair salons and barbershops would be included in the first reopening wave has workers worried about the spread of coronavirus in their workplace.

Drive-through coronavirus testing centers in Hartford have been active for nearly two months, but many North End residents don’t have cars or rely on public transportation to get around. And other barriers, like a lack of health insurance or a doctor’s referral prevented others from getting tested for the disease.