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 ...

With all of the melting snow and ice this week, that means the river has risen by a few feet.

As Connecticut has untold numbers of rivers, brooks, streams, lakes and ponds, it doesn’t take long for a trickling stream to become a torrent, a meandering river to become a raging malevolence, a ...

EAST HARTFORD - Paddling the 410-mile Connecticut River affords canoeists and kayakers a much more nature-centric perspective than moving quickly by on a motorized boat. But to do it all, requires ...