[1] In order to fill that void, the paper signed a deal with CTNewsJunkie.com to provide coverage of the Connecticut state government.

After repeated bankruptcy filings, the paper was sold to Hearst Newspapers in 2017 by JRC successor Digital First Media.

[5][6] On September 20, 2014, the Register officially relocated its headquarters closer to the North Haven, Connecticut, city line.

[8] In 2024, the newspaper moved its newsroom out of New Haven and into the Record-Journal's office in Meriden, which Hearst had acquired the year prior.

[10] Its main daily competitors are new Hearst stablemate the Post, located in Bridgeport, which covers Stratford, Milford, and portions of the lower Naugatuck Valley (Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton), and the Waterbury Republican-American, which covers Greater Waterbury, Litchfield County, and the Naugatuck Valley.