VT health care regulators pass OneCare Budget aimed at accountability; Abenaki Heritage weekend kicks off at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum; Vermonters continue weekend-long Juneteenth celebrations
Vt. election reform bill could be taken up in veto session; Vt. communities search for PFAS solution as water remains unsafe; Green Mountain Care Board cracks down on OneCare Vermont
Housing advocates say budget compromise falls short; Sanders introduces bill to make college tuition-free; Campaign launched to create Vermont climate superfund
Community mourns actor Treat Williams killed in Vt. motorcycle crash; Burlington short-term rental compliance effort underway; Sen. Welch introduces the E-Access Act
Plane makes emergency landing at Burlington airport; Rutland is gathering social service providers that can help homeless people; Plattsburgh Airport one step closer to port of entry designation
Quebec Minister’s Cancellation of Event Citing ‘Anti-Abortion’ Stance Discriminatory: Christian Group; Georgia man identified in deadly Milton fishing accident
New details on gas tanker fire, but is anyone investigating?; Police searching for 2 suspects in attempted robbery at Vt. gas station; Dartmouth Health lays off 75 workers
Burlington School District warns of strangers approaching children; Cancer centers say chemotherapy shortage is causing complications; Local synagogue launches anti-hate campaign on GMT buses
Former assistant judge gets 3 years of probation for theft of county funds; Burlington’s chief of police says new title comes with ‘stability’ for law enforcement
Emergency plan seeks to help thousands left without shelter after Hotel/Motel program ends; Vt. students navigate test-optional college applications; Vermont astronomer captures emerging supernova
Autopsy results released in double homicide in Franklin; Enosburg Falls Hosts 67th VT Dairy Festival; Child hit by car in Colchester; Vermont WWII veteran receives high school diploma
Vermont State Police investigating hit and run in Waterbury; Suspect in 2022 Bennington shooting arrested in Mass.; Revitalization efforts focus on Roaring Branch floodplain
Police: Six people hospitalized after drunk driving crash; Slate Ridge owner sues Pawlet and judge as enforcement looms; Burlington reaches settlement in 2018 use-of-force case
Suspect wanted for gun incident arrested; Ben & Jerry’s scoopers vote to form union; Essex man facing court after DUI crash that injured 6 people; Killington opens for bonus day of skiing
2 kids rescued from Malletts Bay; Vermont in need of more foster parents; AARP says state needs more ‘missing middle’ homes for aging Vermonters; VT schools continue to address teen vaping epidemic
Balint calls decision to send lawmakers home ‘dangerous’; Deadline looming for those in emergency hotel program; Newport community members rally behind recently resigned mayor
Barre City officials prepare for end of hotel housing program; Foodbank celebrates upgrades with open house; Green Mountain Transit to resume fare collection next year
Firefighters battle several blazes along train tracks in Northeast Kingdom; Lake Monsters return to Centennial Field for opening day; Vt. Fish and Wildlife asks hunters to share turkey hunting data
Berlin tries to curb impacts of influx of unhoused individuals; Washington County sheriff’s deputy accused of leaving scene of accident; Police chase car across Burlington airport property
UVMMC patient survives six-story fall; Child airlifted to hospital after crash in Belvidere; Charter change in Brattleboro heads to Governor’s desk
State reps detail constituent input on legislative bills; Route 7 in Ferrisburgh shut down after crash; Legal battle continues over what landowner can do with blighted Burlington property
Fire forces evacuations at Williston movie theater; UVM faculty, staff seek apology for administration’s handling of federal antisemitism investigation
Shelburne garbage truck catches fire; Housing crunch magnified by older Vermonters looking to downsize; UVM faculty union alleges unfair labor practice over switch to new educational software
One man is dead, another in critical condition from gunshot wounds suffered Friday night in Brookfield. Whodunit?
New mental health treatment facility opens, and others are in early stages; Missing Bennington man found dead
Burlington fire crews knock out flames at homeless encampment; Vt. agencies to drop rabies vaccine amid Chittenden County outbreak; Vt. holds state auction
Vt. regulators to crack down on synthetic cannabis; Corrections commissioner denies records appeal, keeps ID of out-of-state prison bidder secret
State declines to prosecute former Vt. teacher in lewd conduct case; Brattleboro Union High School to rebrand with new mascot; Coyotes on the prowl
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.
Sugar houses open doors for maple weekend in Vermont.
Driver in ‘hero dog’ crash on I-89 guilty of driving under the influence.
Thanks to quick-killing fentanyl, overdoses in Vermont continue to climb – either with greater availability of Narcan.
The “Eisenhower Media Network” is the latest anti-military peace offensive mounted by Ben Cohen, founder of Ben & Jerry’s.
When police saw two men carrying brand new woodchippers on a Colchester sidewalk at 4:45, their suspicions were aroused.
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.
WCAX reports that a Connecticut woman will be allowed to participate in Vermont’s ‘aid in dying’ law.
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.
Violent assaults by teenagers are renewing questions about ‘youthful offender’ status that keeps some violent crimes out of the public eye – although not a recent assault of his infant child by an 18-year-old Bennington man.
Want to meet Vermont’s new congressperson? Oh, you just missed it! She was the guest of honor at a Washington DC ‘meet and greet’ today at noon.
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.
On March 9, 1791, Vermont was admitted as the 14th State of the Union – the first after the original 13 colonies.
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 woman later evaluated for mental problems grabbed a two-year-old from a mom on a GMT bus, police say. Bystanders helped the mother recover the child.
A manhole covered knocked askew by a snowplow resulted in a 15 foot plunge at midnight by a St. Albans woman.
WCAX has footage of a young man looking and acting out of his mind attacked a Burlington woman in a wheelchair at night as she was going to the drugstore.
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.
Every town has a Stephen Whitaker – the person who regularly stands up at local meetings and shares strong opinions and inconvenient facts. Few of them get handcuffed and led away – only to have their charges dropped, months later.
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.
For decades public school teachers have been Bernie Sanders’ most loyal campaign volunteers and donors. Last night it was payback time.
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.
Vermont’s drinking problem – already serious – has grown worse over the last five years.
So – why are we spending state money on ‘job creation’ when we already don’t have enough workers?
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.
In today’s VT news headlines – A newly elected sheriff, a newly appointed state’s attorney, and another state’s attorney all face public criticism from other members of the criminal justice system.
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.
As of today, the newly elected sheriff of Orange County will have no HQ staff and only half of the current deputies when he takes office next week.
The financial dealings and staffing woes of Vermont’s county sheriffs are getting close scrutiny by media and authorities.
The era of BFM (Big Federal Money) paying for everything is drawing to a close.
As Burlington announces its Net Zero carbon policy, Vermont schools practice zero tolerance for racial insensitivity.
Critics say a Burlington Progressive policing plan takes the ‘safety’ out of ‘public safety.’
