WSHU spoke with CT Mirror's Dave Altimari to discuss his article about the tobacco industry in Connecticut and beyond.

The iconic Connecticut shade tobacco fields have been replaced by parking lots and warehouses as demand changed. Today, only ...

The local tobacco boom comes despite a devastating 2023 season, when heavy rain and flooding wiped out roughly 70% of the ...

“Available data shows that the area under tobacco cultivation decreased by 15.7 per cent globally. In Africa, it increased by 3.4 per cent from 2012 to 2018.

In fact, Vance County's farm service agency says tobacco plantings dropped 59 percent in 2005. But Stainback is actually growing about 15 extra acres of tobacco than in past years.

The Dominican Republic’s tobacco industry experiencing its best moment in history, with record export figures and rising ...