Vermont Route 9 closed after tractor-trailer crash, hazmat spill; Baaaaad influence: Sheep on the lam wander Burlington High School grounds; Alleged Springfield kidnapping brings additional federal charges; Fire damages Stowe building housing several businesses
“I believe I probably did sign a petition years ago when this was an issue in Vermont. Since the F-35s have come here, we have seen the damage this is doing for people under the flight path,” Wrenner said.
The American beef market faces unique challenges that will likely keep burger prices high for some time.
Several New England journalism organizations have come together to condemn the Trump administration’s decision to ban Politico, CNN, and MS Now reporters from the White House.
A mother and son both charged in incident of child sex crime.
Repairs are expected to keep both towers closed through October. Here’s what hikers need to know, plus seven alternatives the state recommends.
“We are heartbroken to share that Vinny Viola died this morning from injuries sustained in the car accident over the weekend,” school officials wrote in to students, staff and parents.
The Times was the brainchild of Henry Jarvis Raymond, who graduated with high honors from UVM in the Class of 1840. The paper kicked off its dodransbicentennial (yes, that is the official term for a 175th) this January with a “Birth of the Times” column that featured the original prospectus published by Raymond and his business partner, George Jones, who functioned as the Times’ publisher. The paper’s celebration continues with a multimedia “New York Times at 175” website.
“Molly Gray has it backwards,” Rodgers said in a statement. “Vermont dairy isn’t dying because people stopped drinking milk or eating cheese.”
Over the past decade, trapping has accounted for an average of 47 bobcats annually, while average total mortality from trapping, hunting, road kills and other causes was 109.
During the trial, the defense presented evidence that Eaton believed the CIA and Israeli intelligence agency Mossad were communicating with him through FM radio and directing his actions.
About 150 volunteers passed thousands of books down the line from the old library building to the new one.
Bail hearing for Rutland man who tried to lure child with candy; Poultney man, accused of shooting dog, pleads not guilty to animal cruelty
Also, drought down despite rising temps
The results so far have shown zero wrongdoing by Chief Swanson.
Vermont is one of 14 states with no dedicated scrap-tire program.
The Vermont teachers union formally recognizes students’ right to play sports based on “gender identity,” rather than biological sex. The National Education Association Vermont chapter also asserts that the state’s public school teachers must acknowledge the nation’s “white supremacy culture” as responsible for “white privilege” that is “conferred irrespective of wealth, gender, and other factors.”
Vintage car show draws crowds to Essex Junction; Advocates push to improve ballot access for Vermonters with disabilities
….And there was a tomato ranked second largest in the world. All on display at Sam Mazza’s Farm Market.
On September 5, 2026, the Bennington Banner ran a full-page ad supporting the repurposing of the former Southern Vermont College (SVC) into a five-star Orchards Resort.
Fox News Poll: 71% think Trump administration lacks plan to end Iran war; Trump announces Greenland deal; Trump signs new Russia sanctions bill; Iran war costs U.S. households $860 each as energy prices surge – economist
Winter on the legislative road ahead; Holt on Copeland-Hanza’s disappointing celebration
Also, conservationist honored, and the Stuff the Buss nonperishable food drive
The American government payment on the national debt is more than a trillion a year.
Also: Hartford man, 62, identified as victim of vehicle fire; CSAM producer sentenced; Man charged after child found on second-story windowsill
Connie LaPlume of Westfield has been named the 2025 Vermont Queen by TOPS Club Inc., a national nonprofit weight-loss support organization, after losing 43 pounds.
Incumbent US Rep. Becca Balint is running for reelection as Vermont’s only member of the US House of Representatives.
U.S. farmers face record-high fuel expenses this year as the fall harvest kicks into gear while pressure grows on the Trump administration to impose a temporary ban on diesel exports that could bring down prices.
Tammy Haas, 61, is accused of sending death threats, placing metal spikes in the woman’s driveway, posting signs containing her photograph and home address around Essex County, and creating a social media account in her name, the Caledonian-Record reported.
Inaugural event, on Oct. 1, to focus on coverage of South Burlington ICE raid and protest
We know this because history and math.
It is a wakeup call for knowing what is happening with our agriculture across the country. Family farms are disappearing and farmland is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain.
There is indeed a species in Vermont under constant threat: Threat of the loss of their habitat and home, threats to their land and their ability to survive the regular attacks of predators that infringe upon and invade their lives.
An ex-New Jersey man, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison last month for homicide in Burlington City Hall Park four years ago, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court on Friday to federal gun and drug charges.
The report examines Proposal 3, the proposed constitutional amendment on the November general election ballot, in the context of Vermont’s current economic challenges—including declining private-sector employment, high taxes, high living costs and population loss—and compares employment, affordability, tax and migration data across states with different labor policies.
Traverse and Mulvaney-Stanak have differed over the city’s approach to public safety. Traverse is scheduled to discuss his public-safety plan Sunday at 11:30 AM on WCAX’s “You Can Quote Me.”
There is a particular kind of Vermont institution that nobody notices until it’s gone: not the general store, not the town meeting, but the humble email listserv — the digest that lands in your inbox each morning carrying news of a missing dog, a farmers market, a zoning hearing, and, occasionally, two mysterious explosions rattling windows across White River Junction. For more than two decades, that plumbing of local civic life has belonged to Vital Communities, the White River Junction-based nonprofit. This summer, with little warning, the organization moved to shut it down.
Shameik Camara, 37, was on federal supervised release from illegal gun theft and possession convictions when he made the drug sales in Windham County, a federal prosecutor said in U.S. District Court.
Fair Haven man accused of firing gun, fleeing police custody; Students kick off opening day of Tunbridge World’s Fair; Lt. Dan Band to make appearance in Vermont
“I was left with no other choice but to pull one of my children from school in order to save his life,” Duprey said.
On Thursday, September 17, United States District Judge Mary Kay Lanthier dismissed the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s lawsuit against Vermont demanding the state’s voter rolls.
Thousands flock to Bennington for a (slightly smelly) festival.
Get ready to say cheese! Church Street Marketplace will celebrate Vermont’s rich cheesemaking tradition on Friday, September 18, with an evening of free tastings, live music, and local flavor as part of Vermont Cheese Week.
The delegation announced 90. The state’s own count is 98 — and Vermont taxpayers are covering about $9.2 million of the cost.
In early September 2026, a dark-web service began advertising digital scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses, according to a recent TechCrunch article, along with millions of other ID cards, passports, and medical or cannabis cards.
Kaylee Bailey, 16, was traveling west on Richardson Road on a 2025 Kawasaki KLX140 on Oct. 5 when she struck Kyle Hunt’s 2019 Subaru Crosstrek. According to Vermont State Police, Hunt was traveling east when he turned south in front of the dirt bike.
Crews monitoring stubborn wildlfire in Bristol; Police investigate New Hampshire truck driver death in Barnet; Burlington adds fencing, cameras and toilets at City Hall Park
The dates surfaced on a sign taped to a Cabot Hosiery Mills truck in Northfield’s Labor Day parade, before the company posted them online.
In the Northeast Kingdom last Thursday, hundreds of Troy voters packed the school gymnasium to meet in two separate town meetings to determine whether the Village of North Troy would lose its municipal charter and merge into the town. With the merger requiring two affirmative votes to pass, the merger failed.
Vermont has joined a coalition of 22 jurisdictions challenging a new federal rule that would end Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program reimbursement for certain gender-transition treatments provided to minors, setting up another dispute between states and the Trump administration over federal health-care policy.
The coyote was reported with porcupine quills and behaving aggressively.
A 73-year-old New Hampshire man died Tuesday after witnesses said he got out of his truck following a crash on Route 5 and walked off a nearby cliff.
Security footage showed a male—later identified as Hemingway—arrive at the store in a white Kia Soul, enter the store, point an apparent handgun at store clerks, demand money, and then leave the store with cash.
The University of Vermont Medical Center will lose 118 positions as part of a new round of workforce reductions announced Tuesday by UVM Health, while Dartmouth Health is separately eliminating 124 jobs at its flagship medical center and clinics.
Sheila Hammond, 69, the homeowner, died while getting treatment out-of-state for critical injuries received in the propane leak blast on Saturday Sept. 5, police said.
Man dies after being hit by car in South Burlington; Man accused of sexual harassment at Sand Bar State Park; Dartmouth Health cuts 124 jobs, 300 open positions as costs rise; New pilot program launches in Brattleboro to fill empty storefronts downtown
Washington County Sheriff Marc Poulin attended an elite training program at the FBI National Academy early this summer, returning in late June from two and a half months of training.
But a closer look at the poll shows that support for socialism, membership in the Democratic Socialists of America and the electoral value of a DSA endorsement are three different things.
A state trooper honored for her heroic 2024 rescue of an eight-year-old girl who had plunged through the ice into freezing waters is being honored again for her role, with five other troopers, in searching for a person with dementia suffering from hypothermia.
When a parody video of Becca Balint hit the internet, the libs were triggered. The Congresswoman got all huffy, and the Progressive AG Charity Clark sent a threatening letter to the video’s creator.
Elsewhere the pattern was familiar and grim — domestic and sexual assault arrests in Washington County, an interstate fentanyl pipeline intercepted on a Brattleboro side street, and a steady run of out-of-state fugitives turning up at Vermont ports of entry and traffic stops.
How Austin, Texas, solved its housing crisis, and lessons for VT.
“As water temperatures cool off, many different fish species begin to feed heavily,” said Shawn Good, a fisheries biologist with Vermont Fish & Wildlife. “From warm water species such as largemouth and smallmouth bass, northern pike, perch, and walleye, to cold water species like trout and salmon, fish feeding activity really picks up and creates exceptional fishing conditions for anglers.”
Vermont’s mail-ballot system will proceed without new federal Postal Service restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower-court order blocking the rules for the November election.
The Burlington resident is running again for Lt. Governor to stand against the Trump administration and tackle the pressures that working families in Vermont face.
UVMMC prez Dr. Stephen Leffler warned the hospital expects to lose more than $75 million this year and said the board’s decision could result in another $75 million loss next year. He said UVM’s reserves currently are being supported by stock-market gains.
Police find nearly 200 bags of suspected fentanyl in Brattleboro car search; Woman cited after police chase ends in Shelburne cruiser crash; Possible rabid coyote prompts warning in Windham County
The segment also touched on Derby Line, the border village north of Newport, where the CNN correspondent said residents on both sides voiced less anger about the tariffs themselves than uncertainty about what comes next.
Fatal crash, no seat belt. And, traffic stop leads to discovery of about 196 bags of suspected fentanyl and/or heroin.
Vermont still has abundant talent, but the barriers to business growth in our state have become extraordinarily high, complicated, and expensive.
“At the semesterlong Mountain School program, families pay $40,000 for their teens to do chores on a farm in rural Vermont.”
After receiving preliminary declining enrollment data for the new school year, Harwood school leaders this week took two key steps regarding merger talks with neighboring school districts and a separate effort to investigate combining four of its elementary schools.
New details about the brutal and senseless killing by Theodore Bland, 31, formerly of Stowe, because of a drug debt Oct. 12, 2023 were outlined during the more than one-hour sentencing.
Northeast Kingdom resident and incumbent Lt. Governor, John Rodgers, is seeking reelection to the state’s second highest office. He is running on a record of advocacy and turning the position into an active participant inside the Statehouse on legislation and important policies. Rodgers faces former Democratic Lt. Governor Molly Gray in the November general election.
The social media advertisements criticize Vermont lawmakers and their voting records, according to Sibilia. One also urges Vermonters to contact legislators in support of positions backed by AFP.
Three New York City area men, who authorities said set up a temporary drug trafficking business in Addison County, along with a local resident, are behind bars following a joint state and federal investigation into the distribution of illegal drugs in the New Haven and Hinesburg area.
Police search for suspect in South Burlington store robbery; Car hits unoccupied business in Vergennes; Vermont Almanac will not publish a seventh edition
Also: Man accused of threatening clerk over cigarettes, assaulting officer, and a man held without bail in Waterbury sex-assault case
On Election Day, members of the Board of Civil Authority are not simply names on a ballot. They are the people working at the polls, greeting voters at check-in, overseeing the voting process, monitoring the ballot tabulator and helping ensure that every ballot is properly accounted for.
Burlington event explores solutions to the politicization of schools and ideological division tearing communities apart through film, panel discussions, and keynote addresses
Fourteen cases of salmonella illness in Vermont have been linked to eggs produced at a Windsor County farm, prompting a recall covering more than three months of production.
Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission (TRORC) draws my region’s planning maps. Vershire is one of thirty towns in that picture. That is how fifteen to seventeen acres of private farmland here were classified and color-coded in a restrictive Future Land Use category.
Nathan Farr, 36, denied in federal court on Friday that he managed and controlled 2465 Frontage Rod in Swanton as an owner and occupant between at least September 29, 2025 and Dec. 4, 2025 when the residence was raided by law enforcement authorities led by Swanton Village Police.
I have been a lifelong Republican. I remain active in the Barre Town, Washington County, and Vermont State GOP committees. I will be voting for Republican candidates this fall. However, I am totally fed up with the antics of our President Donald J. Trump.
The Pulse is a daily English-language newspaper covering Stanstead, Coaticook, Magog, Sherbrooke and the surrounding communities just across the line. Each week we share a selection of their stories most likely to matter on this side of the border.
The accident happened Saturday morning in Rutland City.
Richford man charged with swiping nearly $1,400 in merchandise from Church Street business; Jury selected for trial of man accused of shooting Palestinian students; Plans for Rutland town’s new Walmart Supercenter progress at Act 250 prehearing on Thursday; Vermont farmer, former Air Guard pilot recall 9/11 response
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM: A 79-year-old driver from Texas was arrested Thursday after police say he turned around and drove the wrong way on Interstate 91 to speak with a state trooper.
A 38-mile loop through Rochester and Pittsfield caught the BBC’s attention. It is the first finished piece of a planned 485-mile route across the state.
Regulators in Vermont have issued a waiver to permit biomass plants Ryegate Power and the McNeil Generating Station in Burlington to purchase low-grade wood that had been destined for a Glens Falls mill, Finch Paper, before it suddenly discontinued its pulpwood operation in July.
Burlington Police remain short-staffed.
The simulation will test emergency response procedures, communication, and coordination among the participating agencies while helping identify areas where plans and processes can be strengthened.
Think your taxes are high now? If a majority of Vermonters vote to adopt Proposal 4 on the November 2026 general election ballot, you can expect your taxes to go up – waaaay up, not down.
Police take man into custody after report of gunshots fired in St. Johnsbury; Jury draw begins for trial of man accused of shooting Palestinian students in 2023; Van goes up in flames at Charlotte fishing access
Councilors also discussed, but took no action on, Burlington’s proposal for a 100-bed low-barrier homeless shelter on Williston Road.
The arrests mark a striking turn for Kinkade, who received favorable attention for her work with Brattleboro’s homeless population.
Thompson has prior convictions for assault and robbery as well as aggravated assault with a weapon. At the time of the August stabbing, he was already out on pretrial release conditions after a July 2026 arrest for assault and robbery in which a police officer was injured.
Also: Don’t move needle exchange next to Single Pebble, across from new hotel, and, Rebuild Woodstock’s foundation from the bottom up
“I work for American Airlines, and I was notified that a plane that was being flown by a friend of mine was in the process of being hijacked,” Dubie said in the film. “And that’s how I first heard about the beginnings of the World Trade Tower tragedy.”
One year ago, America lost a young man whose life was far larger than his years.
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