A case dismissed by the courts provided the legal basis for the early morning raid by a large squad of FBI agents on the home of a pro-life activist.
A case dismissed by the courts provided the legal basis for the early morning raid by a large squad of FBI agents on the home of a pro-life activist.
With pandemic money from the feds, the State of Vermont has been paying 100% of electric bills for qualified renters. That deal ends Saturday.
All but one of the states with universal mailed ballots are below the U.S. average in the disparity between white and black voting rates. Vermont is the second-worst in the nation.
Raul Garcia was already late for his scheduled court appearance Monday morning when he twice eluded police on his motorcycle. Police nabbed him at the court house.
Five years ago, the man busted for fentanyl dealing in Barre this week was connected to a conspiracy to sell heroin in Northern New England.
For the second straight year, one moose crossing I-91 in the Northeast Kingdom has led to two accidents.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand has joined Hillary Clinton in calling for a global censorship system.
A Vermonter asks: what does Article 22 mean by ‘a compelling state interest’? And what do the framers of the proposed constitutional amendment mean by ‘privilege’?
Being a Vermont Republican, I always have to step back and evaluate whether the Republicans in Washington really represent us here in Vermont, but on this issue I think they drafted a plan that any Vermont Republicans could stand on.
Three separate arms of the United States government are taking an active role in local law enforcement.
VTDigger publishes the long-and-growing list of subsidies, tax breaks and giveaways for Vermonters to drive electric. This headline and others in today’s media.
A homicide remains unsolved 34 years after a man’s body was found in the overgrowth of a Waterbury state park.
Suddenly Becca Balint’s a no-show at Congressional debates.
Barre – a city built by Roman Catholic immigrants – has become a focal point of possible public service exclusion of a town official for his Roman Catholic views on abortion.
This weekend on Chittenden County highways, one young man died Saturday and another escaped a fiery car on Sunday.
“There is often a huge disconnect between autism-related research and the actual needs of the autistic community,” says a supporter of a UVM research grant aimed at bridging the disconnect.
Bernie Sanders is “oblivious to the reality of the global and domestic energy challenges we face,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Virginia) says.
Lake Morey in Fairlee is usually a favorite leafpeeper destination. Now, not so much.
A trio of two-week old puppies have been missing since Wednesday.
Biden’s FBI arrests pro-life leader at home in front of crying family.
Parents could lose their rights to stop gender trans surgery under a bill passed in California.
Franklin County’s Kicking Cop denies wrongdoing. And that was no coyote – it was a wolf. This headline and others in Vermont media.
Regardless of age, if a child tells the school nurse or teacher they no longer want to be a boy or girl, the State could immediately take the decision out of the parents’ hands.
A federal grant will help state officials and not-for-profits expand the purchase and distribution of goat meat to the refugee and New American communities.
Bishop claimed he had been in an altercation with an unidentified black man from out of state, who had produced a concealed AR-15 and fired a round.
The Central Vermont Democratic Socialist America/ Socialist Feminist Working Group will be picketing a Barre pregnancy resource clinic next Friday.
The Vermont State Police is working with the Department of Homeland Security in the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign.
Not wearing a seatbelt or helmet, a 19-year-old died after her ATV crashed in Sheffield.
“Climate change is going to destroy this island if we don’t do something fast,” the Martha’s Vineyard Equity Council said. “This wall nothing to do with keeping the brownies out.”
Burlington “East District” voters will gather Dec. 6 at Mater Christi school to pick a replacement for a councilor who resigned to apply for a newly created city job.
An integral part of the plan must bringing back a bail system that works, to make it clear to “would be” criminals they will be held to account.
Nathan Hale remembered on 246th anniversary of his heroic death.
ATVs and bicycles are popular targets for Vermont’s vehicular thieves.
Building new housing and renting motel rooms aren’t the only options for expanding Vermont’s low-income housing, the state’s housing commissioner says.
A model produced by the Cadillac of electric cars has been recalled because the windows pinch passengers’ fingers. This headline and others in Vermont news.
On October 25, Peter Welch learned the deadline for reporting his wife’s sale of Exxon stock was November 1. On October 28 he grilled the Exxon CEO about his credibility. On November 9 – eight days after the legal deadline – he reported the sale.
At a deer camp on Belvidere, a Brownington man shot to death the adult son of his former life partner, state police say.
Yep, it really can cost $29,000 to replace an old EV battery with a new one.
Don Keelan ponders the takeaway from the public remembrances of the life of Queen Elizabeth II.
I was supposed to be born dead, but I miraculously survived. Countless others like me do not.
The pandemic must really be over if Justin Trudeau’s government is lifting the vax requirement. This headline and others from VT media today.
About the only people who made money from Vermont’s wind turbines were the developers, who collected money not for selling the power produced, but by soaking up various forms of government subsidies and incentive payments.
Students graduate from Vermont colleges and universities and then leave at a rate higher than any other state in the union.
Health care facilities in Springfield, Brattleboro and Wells River will benefit from almost $3 million combined in federal pandemic relief funding.
A Chinese-based biological research company in July purchased land in Florida to build a primate quarantine and breeding facility.
Two Springfield prison inmates face charges for violent crimes.
With marijuana now legal to grow and sell, Progressives recommend moving the state capitol to Highgate.
“It is unequitable, it is not fair for women to not be allowed to control their own bodies,” Joelen Mulvaney told William Toborg.
Operating under the Priority Response Plan made necessary by understaffing, Burlington police didn’t respond to the assault on Fred Sargeant initially termed as a ‘disturbance.’
I think Balint doesn’t understand that 86% of people is an enormous middle ground—many of whom feel dismayed by the polarized, black-and-white fundamentalism on the extremes.
A Bolton hunter shot a Fairfax man in the stomach after (he says) mistaking him for a bear. No-one was wearing hunter orange.
The wealthiest school district in Vermont was created under a federal law that was among the last bills signed by President John F. Kennedy before his assassination.
As bad as fuel costs will be this winter, they would be worse if this year the State House Democrats had passed the Carbon Tax they wanted.
This week the VT NAACP is holding seminars on qualified immunity for law enforcement, judges, lawmakers, and community members.
Roe itself flatly rejected the argument that “the woman’s right is absolute and that she is entitled to terminate her pregnancy at whatever time, in whatever way, and for whatever reason she alone chooses.”
One government appointee, the chair of Barre’s Diversity and Equity Committee, has explicitly threatened to silence another appointed committee member. Will the City Council let that happen?
There simply would not be enough gas to keep Europeans warm and run their factories this winter if the US were not shipping huge supplies there.
Vermonters not yet registered to vote can register online today – or at the DMV or their local city or town clerk’s office.
A retired police officer, Vermont resident and early gay rights leader was assaulted by trans rights activists at the Burlington Pride march Sunday.
I welcome readers to remember their loved ones with an obituary or memorial statement in the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
Vermonters characterized by election officials as ‘deniers’ exercised their right to look at 2020 general election ballots in Montpelier, Fairlee and Bennington. This headline and others from VT media this weekend.
One in three families has been impacted by a loved one with a use disorder.
Hugo’s passion for woodcarving started at a young age when he carved his father’s prized coffee plant and school desk. His nature-inspired artwork is scattered around the world, from Amsterdam to the Craftsbury Library.
Lawmakers on a key committee seem curiously unaware of their Dec. 1 deadline for ruling whether Vermont follows California and bans the sale of internal-combustion cars by 2035.
Vermont’s climate plans haven’t even gone in the oven yet, a GOP House candidate from Arlington warns.
Burlington City Councilor Jack Hanson, chair of the council committee overseeing the Burlington Electric Department, voted to create the Net Zero Project & Equity Analyst position paying up to $100,000.
The Windham county prosecutor concluded the cops arrested the wrong man for Wednesday’s highway slashing. The investigation continues.
Vermont’s heavy carbon-emitting marijuana growing industry is getting generous ‘energy efficiency’ subsidies. Thanks, ratepayers!
“It is irresponsible to pass legislation if you don’t know what it means,” former Barre lawmaker and expert parliamentarian Tom Koch says.
Burglary in Jay. Overdose deaths in Killington. Catalytic converter thefts. And Martha’s Vineyard makes Vermont news.
Was the Ukrainian president’s bodyguard really sporting an SS patch?
Charges of anti-semitic activity at UVM were denied by the university president last week. Jewish groups say his statement blames the victims.
With the ACLU’s help, the parent organization of a Vermont online newspaper is suing the State of Vermont for hiding info about the EB-5 scandal in the Northeast Kingdom.
Windham County’s prosecutor isn’t sure police got the right bearded, camo-wearing homeless person when they arrested Ryan Avery for allegedly slashing a highway worker.
A vintage International Scout was stolen and crashed.
To qualify for state grant money to acquire a new electric-powered utlity truck, Green Mountain Power had to destroy an old, fossil-fuel-powered truck
California passed its own Global Warming Solutions Act in 2006,14 years before Vermont. Sign of things to come?
I’ve got to say, if someone told me a year ago that I would be running a campaign like this, I would not have believed them. I am so grateful for the support I have received from not only these guys, but from people all across the county,” Bean said.
The U.S. Constitution will be read by students tomorrow beginning at 10 AM on the State House lawn.
The program is designed to ensure the loans will be forgiven if the proceeds are used to pay for eligible operating expenses.
Sen. Ruth Hardy of Addison County is backing out on a promise to debate Article 22 expert Rep. Anne Donahue.
As can be seen in the doctored footage of the January 6th insurrection, several hundred MP20 gang members can be seen assaulting officers and mostly peaceful Antifa members.
Hunters need to beware of a deadly rabbit-killing disease heading towards Vermont.
The rocks thrown at the Hillel Center were just an effort of one friend to get another’s attention.
It’s dangerous to keep a gun for self-defense, a Sheffield gun owner argues.
Rock throwing. Exclusion from student groups. Threats to lower grades.
Candidates for statewide office will debate tonight online and tomorrow in person.
A homeless man has been arrested for slashing a 24-year-old highway worker Wednesday.
School districts without their own secondary schools cannot deny tuition payments to approved religious schools, the Vermont Secretary of Education advised yesterday.
Thousands of years of history and fervently held convictions of millions of Americans are to be overturned by legislative tyranny.
A bill passed by the U.S. House would make gay marriage legal in all 50 states.
“Neurodivergence?”
A new kind of Chittenden County senator for a new, suburban Chittenden County senate district.
The Biden administration wants to restrict hunting with dogs in the growing Silvio Conte Wildlife Refuge. Vermont sportsmen’s groups file suit.
Police are seeking a man who slashed a highway worker this morning and then fled into the woods.
Travis Trybulski will never work as a Vermont cop again as a result of his drug search of a New York car in February, 2021.
Bradford became about the 70th Vermont municipality to allow licensed local stores to sell marijuana.
People are now afraid to speak the truth against lawlessness, socialism and current immoral behavior for fear of losing their job or being falsely accused of racism.
An executive order signed by President Biden Monday would eradicate clinical trial safety standards in its pursuit of human gene-editing technologies.
For four years, St. Johnsbury Rep. Scott Campbell (D) has voted to make gasoline and heating fuel more expensive. Now his Republican challenger is reminding voters.
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