Why this matters: attackers took over small water systems across the country this summer without exploiting a single software flaw — and Vermont’s own program to help systems like yours has yet to deliver. Here’s what you can do without waiting for it.
A wave of suspected Iranian cyberattacks against U.S. water and wastewater systems is putting new attention on the vulnerability of Vermont’s small water utilities — and on what the state has, and has not, done to protect them.
$19.7 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law completes the Pittsford-to-Brandon reconstruction — a project whose roots run to 1996, and to bypass talk from the 1950s.
Green River Hydro gets 40-Year lifeline
A nationwide network failure left roughly one-quarter of Vermonters without cell service for ten hours on January 14, exposing critical vulnerabilities in the state’s communications infrastructure
A seven-year project to modernize critical freight infrastructure faced delays and cost overruns—but may have saved Western Vermont’s rail economy.
Because CHIP draws its repayment funds from the education portion of the property tax, it also touches the broader statewide education fund.
In a special meeting last week, the House Committee on Human Services grappled with the repercussions from the federal One Big Beautiful Bill cutting SNAP benefits for Afghan refugees with Special Immigrant Visas (SIV). The benefit cut has drawn non-partisan criticism over a perceived moral betrayal of those who risked all for U.S. troops.
Towns hit hardest by the July 10 flash floods are facing steep repair bills with no federal help after President Donald Trump denied Vermont’s request for a disaster declaration.
Reliance on on-site septic and well water signifies that a place “is frozen in amber, ain’t nothing gonna happen here again, it is what it is, nothing’s gonna change,” said Chris Campany, executive director of the Windham County Regional Planning Commission.
The Clark Sawmill Dam collapsed during the flooding that hit Vermont in 2023, punctuating years of back-and-forths about its future.
“It was a straight up geyser,” said Tim Sinnott of Parkside Drive, who was checking out the site with his family. Sinnott said water shot 120 feet into the air.
What do a pit and a jellyfish have in common? Find out by reading ‘The Big Pit on State Street.’
How Russia weaponized America’s hacking tools to burn down the internet, and how Vermont lays vulnerable
Around 100 of the 700 3-acre sites in Vermont are subdivisions, but the state doesn’t know exactly how many people live on those parcels.
A public hearing will be held Thursday for a Certificate of Public Good permit for a natural gas pipeline completed in 2017.
Crumbling highways, decaying bridges, and gridlocked traffic plague the Northeast as Vermont is among the nation’s worst for infrastructure maintenance.
Two House bills would bar service providers from deceptive business practices and require them to offer cheap broadband plans.
Officials say that the facility requires replacing control systems, mechanical and electrical components, and making structural repairs and improvements.
Montpelier’s post office has been unreliable, and the problem isn’t going away. Postal employees aren’t talking, but frustrated residents missing mail are.
Starting in 2027, builders will replace the floodgates with thicker, sturdier ones and swap out the bridge above the spillway.
Vermont’s legislature continues the race to the precipice.
Since its inception in 1999, the program has invested more than $16 million in Vermont’s downtowns and villages.
This week we celebrate the first Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) in Vermont starting work in Danby, June 5, 1933.
Staffing shortages in Waterbury are among post office problems across Vermont that have disrupted deliveries and inconvenienced residents.
Government is supposed to provide some basic, universal services and maintaining the state’s roads, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure is one of them.
“These investments support economic development, a cleaner environment, and have public health benefits.,” says Governor Scott.
