37 child care center leaders: Over 100 programs could close in the next year; Government contractor blows whistle on radical ESG policy appearing in schools, businesses

Fuel returns to Morrisville-Stowe Airport, operations remain; Vermonters across the state participate in ‘Green Up’ day out of reach

Vermont Democrats say they won’t pass paid family and medical leave this year; Vt. officials defend homeless hotel transition

Sheriff reform bill advances in Vermont; Police say 2 suspects wanted in downtown Burlington shooting; Vt. doctor reacts to medical aid-in-dying law expansion to non-residents

Burlington City Council votes to rename airport for Patrick Leahy; Councilors pitch plan to allow camping in Burlington city parks; Tuskegee Airman receives honorary doctorate from Norwich University

Missing Vermont girl found safe; Jay Peak to cut propane use; 2 missing after Brattleboro crash

Bears spotted in Williston: Vermont Fish & Wildlife receive reports of animals in trash; Judge approves release of Vt. student accused of planning attack at college

Vt. lawmakers inch closer to passing flavored tobacco ban; Apartments to open for UVM Health Network workers; Vermont Senate approves $8B budget in preliminary vote

Bernie Sanders endorses Biden, rules out 2024 bid of his own; Are human services budget increases making an impact?; Vermont sees significant increase in organ donor registrations

Neighbors complain of problems around Burlington’s pod community;
Vermont State University reverses library & athletics change; Serial robber sentenced to 7 years in prison

Medicaid reenrollment is underway, and it’s complicated; Phil Scott looks to Canada as a possible source for abortion pill, but Vermont’s drug importation plan is stuck in government bureaucracy

DOC: 7 prison deaths so far this year; Vt. cannabis advocates seek to loosen consumption rules; State considers selling Caledonia airport to Beta Technologies

Witness says man who died at Springfield prison pleaded for help, was threatened by corrections officer; Burlington’s cannabis marketplace is quickly becoming crowded

Traffic Alert: Rolling roadblocks on I-89 Wednesday; UVM aims for carbon neutrality by 2030; UVM training students, faculty in emergency response

Employees at Ben & Jerry’s Burlington store petition to unionize; Vt. man sentenced in Burlington murder, likely to spend life in hospital setting; VTrans looks to expand EV charging locations in Vt.

Burlington sees post-pandemic glut of office space; UVM rolls out new life-saving stations on campus; Jewish Community of Stowe honors Holocaust Remembrance Day

UVM students protests guns; Border communities support migrants; BFA-Fairfax threat investigated; Suicide in returned military personnel

Homeless shelter staff take “pause” after co-worker killed; Colchester Fire Dept. confronts Town about staffing shortages; Burlington police patrols, response plan prepared for summer

Vermont eviction rules’; Swatting at Vermont school; Vt. father pleads not guilty to manslaughter of son; Colchester fire chief says he was pushed out over staffing disagreement with town manager.

J.B. McKinley never, ever showed off his vast understanding of the world and the English language. He just lived it and loved it.

VT students address substance abuse; Burl. PD threatens to arrest doc treating gunshot; Standardized testing changes

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. files paperwork to challenge Biden in 2024; South Burlington police to hire bike-riding patrollers; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. files paperwork to challenge Biden in 2024

Farm seeks to sell renewable natural gas; Winooski School District unveils renovations; Burlington High School Project behind schedule; Lincoln schools ask for budget as independent district

Threats at Neshobe Elementary; Missing autistic teen: Soaring egg prices; BTV to be named for Leahy; Financial literacy in education

Search underway for missing Middlebury teenager; Vermont State Police conducts recovery operation for missing Waitsfield woman

Extended EBT benefits end; House approves ranked voting for primary elections

Senate gives preliminary approval to flavored tobacco ban in Vt.; WHO experts revise COVID-19 vaccine advice, say healthy kids and teens low risk.

Brattleboro man dies of exposure to cold in home; Burlington approves recommendations for police department; zoning changes in Burlington

State legislation could strip Catholic churches’ right to protect members’ sealed confessions.

A former teacher at Founders School in Essex has been charged with years of unlawful sexual contact with a girl who was 10 years old when it began.

WCAX reports that a Washington County town has negotiated a deal with a homeless hotel that is frequent user of its emergency services.

An ordinance that would make evictions tougher for landlords was rejected by Town Meeting voters of one of Vermont’s most ‘progressive’ towns.

The Vermont taxpayer is paying top dollar to house the homeless in hotels around the state.

Chittenden County communities said yes to just about everything on the Town Meeting ballot (except community police oversight in Burlington).

Vermonters will go to Town Meeting today (some went last night) to decide – by ballot or from the floor – on important municipal issues.

The Vermont media has discovered the story of David Mid-Vermont Christian School protesting against playing a basketball team with a 6’4″ transgender player. And in two communities, Indian-sounding team names are okay, after all.

Homeless hotels will still be open after May 31, but rules for who stays there will be tightened. Also, a senator wants to make GPS firms accountable for those annoying stuckages in Smugglers Notch.

A manhole covered knocked askew by a snowplow resulted in a 15 foot plunge at midnight by a St. Albans woman.

Peter Welch wants home energy report accessibility (yawn). Becca Balint joins gun safety task force (no surprise). HEY – what’s Bernie doing in a TikTok dance video?!

President Biden’s porous border policies are to blame for the alarming spike in illegal crossings of the northern border, the congresswoman for Plattsburgh and much of northern New York says.

An 18-year-old stabbed his victim several times at the Montpelier bus station last night, police say.

On some days, Vermont public schools don’t have enough school bus drivers and cafeteria workers to transport and feed students.

The Queen City continues its new look: less parking, more biking.

Ever since the Woodside facility in Essex closed, the State of Vermont has sought without success for somewhere, anywhere to safely and securely hold juvenile delinquents. Next stop, St. Albans.

The Vermont Climate Council is frowning on burning ‘biomass’ – what will this mean for Burlington’s plan to heat UVM, the hospital and other buildings with waste heat from McNeil?

Now that the CDC has added a Covid-19 vax to the ‘routine vaccination’ schedule, will it be required for students?

VTDigger reports that parents may now use X as a placeholder on their child’s initial birth certificate – no more binary requirement.

First the Oasis Diner went out of business, now Henry’s Diner is up for sale. Just one more sign of the Queen City Apocalypse.

NBC 5 reports that state officials are striking back against Vermont’s growing mental health crisis.

Swimming in Lake Champlain in January – crazy. Swimming in Lake Champlain during a polar vortex – beyond crazy and just plain dangerous.

VT Digger reports that someone in the Vermont Democratic Party thought it would be a great idea to charge $50 – $1000 for entry into a gin-drinking party with Vermont state senators. Proceeds would hire staff members for the senators.

The financial dealings and staffing woes of Vermont’s county sheriffs are getting close scrutiny by media and authorities.

Critics say a Burlington Progressive policing plan takes the ‘safety’ out of ‘public safety.’

Rocks that provided vital traction during the horrific Mud Season of 2022 are now causing flat tires during the Mild Winter of 2023.

Some in the Legislature want to go all Marshall Plan on the child care shortage problem. Pricetag: $645 million.

The ACLU has filed suit against Newport for not allowing a former employee to enter city parks. It’s part of a trend of government kicking Vermonters out of the village – or at least out of village-owned property and meetings.

A white CVU girls basketball team member used the ‘N word’ in a social media video she shot with a BIPOC family member.

Should the state buy breakfast and lunch for all students, or just those in need?

Ezra Miller, the disturbed actor who plays the Flash in the movies, will change his plea to stay out of jail arising from a burglary in Stamford, VT.

A Vermont public school that vaccinated a child without parental permission is legally immune from lawsuits because of the pandemic ‘federal emergency,’ a judge has ruled.

PUT DOWN THE PHONE! Highway deaths are up in Vermont, and distracted driving is the main reason.

Another relic of the pandemic – free bus fares – is on its way out, WCAX reports.

There’s no proof the Rolex a state trooper brought to a jeweler and the Rolex stolen from a state police barracks evidence locker are the same watch, says the lawyer for the suspended trooper.

A church built in the 1890’s was already seeing declining membership. Then the pandemic hit.

Sugar houses across Vermont were making the first maple syrup of 2023 during the cool nights and warm days of the new year.

Free speech, public safety, and answering the question ‘what is a woman?’ all proved problematic for local, state and federal officials in 2022.

Sure, it’ll be more expensive to stay warm in 2023. But at least we won’t be able to buy some types of fluorescent light bulbs!

VT Digger reports census data showing wealthy Vermonters got wealthier. Jury’s still out on improvement at the lower end of the income scale.