Front Porch news from Wallingford, Plainville, Cheshire, and Southington, including a program on hydrangeas.

Michigan is No. 1 in Saturday morning's updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings for the 32nd consecutive day. Staying No. 1 for a 33rd straight morning will require the ...

In a world full of distractions, it can be challenging to find the time to escape into literature, but it is never too late to get back to reading. The top of the new year is the perfect time to ...

Highlighting an ongoing trend, the most popular games on PlayStation and Xbox are multiplayer, online, live-service titles that aren't necessarily "new," at least not in the traditional sense. Circana ...

BTIG Research's top stock picks for the new year include Nike and Block . As 2026 kicks off, BTIG's chief market technician Jonathan Krinsky predicts that while large- and small-cap stocks will both ...

As the landscape of healthcare changes, the consolidation of small medical practices into large corporations, along with the growing influence of insurance regulations, many people are turning from ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Recently, I went out for drinks with a young woman who wanted advice about establishing herself as a book ...

Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, widely considered one of the biggest technology bulls, if not the biggest, on Wall Street has announced his top artificial-intelligence plays for 2026. Surprise: ...

The annual list of books that packed a punch — from reinventing classic characters to shedding light on elusive icons to taking us on epic journeys to ... our backyards? By Borys Kit Senior Film ...

Where are young people getting their news? The same app that brought us sea shanties and dance challenges. According to new Pew Research Center data, forty-three percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said ...

2025 offered a feast of great books. To help build your never-ending reading list, here are five titles we particularly enjoyed over the past 12 months: Lucas Schaefer's debut novel, "The Slip" (Simon ...