A volunteer fire company truck caught fire Saturday in Essex during the Ivoryton Illuminations celebration. The fire broke ...

Engine 7 sustained significant damage and will require extensive repairs before being able to return to service.

The Connecticut Sea Music Festival is one of the region’s biggest annual celebrations of maritime music. “People will hear sea shanties — which are sailors’ work songs," said Deirdre Murtha, one of ...

The Essex Steam Train and Riverboat announced operational delays Wednesday evening due to a vehicle being stuck on the train ...

ESSEX, Conn. (WTNH) — A new exhibit opens today at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex. It is called “Rising Waters,” and it takes a look at the history of flooding along the river, with an emphasis ...

ESSEX, Conn. (WFSB) - In the year leading up to America’s 250th birthday, we are revisiting some of the history that has shaped our state. In Essex, a legacy of shipbuilding helped put the small town ...

Essex was in the national spotlight on Tuesday as The Today Show visited as part of its "Merriest Main Streets" holiday series. It was a joyful morning in Ivoryton as dozens of people packed onto the ...

RIVER VALLEY, ESSEX, CONNECTICUT IS QUAINT WITH A POPULATION THAT HOVERS AROUND 7000. IT IS JAM PACKED WITH HISTORY AND WITH VIEWS LIKE THIS. A PERFECT PLACE TO SOAK IN THAT NEW ENGLAND CHARM. TODAY, ...

Far south past Griswold Point on the Connecticut River, Long Island is a smudge on the horizon, or "hull down" as mariners might say. The big river seems to have come to a dead stop, as if unable to ...