After shelter space peaked in 2010, the number of emergency beds and transitional housing units for Connecticut’s homeless has decreased by more than 34%, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual Housing Inventory Count Report.
A loaded handgun, over $2,000 cash and around 30 grams of “purple” fentanyl were seized from a Hartford man during a motor vehicle stop on Thursday, according to the Connecticut State Police.
Massachusetts-based cannabis company Insa plans to build a large marijuana cultivation facility and a retail shop on Brainard Road in Hartford.
According to applications to the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission, Insa plans to retrofit existing buildings at 165 and 167 Brainard Road. One property currently hosts the Chowder Pot of Hartford restaurant. The second is a vacant retail building that previously hosted Restoration Lighting Gallery.