NORWALK — Tim Abbott knew the Greens Ledge Lighthouse off the Norwalk coast as a fishing spot growing up, even when the historic structure was “beat up,” he said. Abbott then became a sailing ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — With the new year comes new rules in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts. While some laws take effect when the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1, 2026, others won’t be ...

Old Lyme — Wayne Gallagher, a local man and retiree, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2025. He beat it. "I was lucky, we caught it early," Gallagher said over searingly cold wind blowing from the ...

The Long Island Sound reached a big milestone in reducing pollution and becoming more suitable for marine life in 2025, according to local environmental groups. During the summer of 1994, about a ...

One person was rescued from a vehicle that plunged into the Long Island Sound in West Haven on Tuesday — an effort that sent multiple police officers who entered the frigid waters to the hospital. The ...

WEST HAVEN — Officials say police officers and firefighters rescued a driver whose car went into the Long Island Sound Tuesday morning. The single-car crash took place at the dead-end of Roberts ...

Environmental advocates are hailing new findings that show that hypoxia in the Long Island Sound is at its lowest level in nearly four decades, according to the Long Island Sound Partnership. Hypoxia ...

Long Island Sound experienced this year the lowest levels of hypoxia, or low oxygen, since monitoring of water quality began nearly four decades ago, the Long Island Sound Partnership announced.

When a Connecticut-based housing developer proposed a $50 billion bridge across Long Island Sound recently, he garnered a flurry of local media coverage. Given Long Island’s cul-de-sac geography and ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Hypoxia levels in Long Island Sound have reached record lows this year, making more areas along the Sound habitable, according to the Long Island Sound (LIS) Partnership.

Nearly $12 million in grants were awarded Tuesday to fund stormwater management, habitat restoration and efforts to reduce nitrogen pollution, along with other related projects along Long Island Sound ...

Thousands of abandoned lobster traps have silently littered Long Island Sound for decades. Now, a local effort to locate them all has received a significant boost. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...