Just 16, and off to college? That could become an option for high school sophomores in Connecticut, one of eight states named Wednesday to pilot test a rigorous new system, including board ...

Scenes from tonight’s Westport Library overflow talk by Robert Ballard, an ocean explorer most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and ...

UPDATE Today’s announcement of the arrest of a suspect in the Dec. 8 murder of Westport jeweler Yekutiel “Kuti” Zeevi ended one of the most intensive manhunts in the town’s history. It was the first ...

Cathleen Schine, author of “The Three Weissmanns of Westport,” remembers her growing up years in her hometown of Westport with great love—“when the milk was delivered in glass bottles with caps made ...

The Westport Weston Family Y, acknowledging fund-raising challenges, today unveiled a downsized new building at its Camp Mahackeno site. It said the 55,000-square foot building, reduced from the ...

Snow started to fall in the Westport area shortly after 1 a.m. today with forecasters predicting the storm could bring 8 to 12 inches along with around a trace of ice. A Winter Storm Warning remains ...

Westport-based Earthplace will host three three screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary exploring global warming and humans’ effect on it. The first showing will be Sunday at 1 p.m. The ...

The P.A.L. Ice Rink at Westport’s Longshore Club Park did a brisk business today despite the frigid temperatures around freezing.. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com ...

Westporter Lyn Hogan spotted a Bobcat in her backyard today on Cross Brook Lane, off of Wilton Road. “It’s big for a Bobcat—about the size of a 70-pound dog,” she said. “This is the third time I’ve ...

While many had the day off today for the Presidents Day holiday, workers cleaning up the snow at the Westport Metro-North station were hard at work. Forecasts called for more snow on Tuesday, 2-3 ...