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By YARDAIN AMRON

President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for the late July storms that inundated Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The declaration, announced late Thursday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, opens up aid for damage caused in...

By AUDITI GUHA

When Jericho resident Bill Butler and Michael Oman of Underhill started talking about how they would like to live out their later years, they were dismayed by the assisted and senior living options.So the two friends came up with a plan to create the...

By ERIN PETENKO

The number of mosquitoes testing positive for eastern equine encephalitis dropped to zero in the latest testing data released by the Vermont Department of Health. The mosquito-transmitted virus, known as EEE, killed a New Hampshire...

By SHAUN ROBINSON

ST. ALBANS — A Franklin County jury found former Georgia Elementary and Middle School teacher Matthew Toof not guilty of allegations that he repeatedly sexually assaulted one of his students over a period of nearly six years starting in 2016. Toof,...

By PETER D’AURIA

A key Vermont health care regulator reduced hospital budgets by millions of dollars for the 2025 fiscal year, setting out financial guardrails for how the facilities can operate over the next 12 months.  The decisions, announced Friday by the Green...

By HABIB SABET

Vermont’s congressional delegation on Wednesday welcomed the release of $51 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to reimburse the state for repair costs from damages caused by flooding in 2023. Authorized through the annual...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The newly created Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont has a big job: studying the state’s education system in order to chart a future that’s equitable, high-achieving and affordable. To do so, its members must learn from the most...

By PETER D’AURIA

In 2018, the state of Vermont released a plan outlining how it should prepare for natural disasters.The State Hazard Mitigation Plan lays out 24 strategies, separated into 96 discrete actions, to address risk factors for natural disasters. Those...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Burlington police are calling attention to a rash of reported violent crimes in recent weeks involving large groups of people, including some juveniles.Police initially put out a press release late on the afternoon of Aug. 23 reporting multiple...

By CHLOE JAD

Kabul fell to the Taliban on August 15, 2021. Three years later, two Afghan advocacy groups in Vermont gathered to reflect on the anniversary, spotlighting the still-urgent plight of Afghan refugees in the U.S and of their families back home.“It...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

After a post-primary rush this week, Vermont’s slate of general election candidates is now solidified, and mail-in ballots will be sent out by mid-September.First, on Monday, the Republican Party added nearly two dozen down-ballot candidates for...

By K. FIEGENBAUN

Lyndon, Vt. — known as the “Covered Bridge Capital of the Northeast Kingdom” — is facing a dilemma.Should it move forward with multimillion-dollar plans to restore one of its historic covered bridges and create a community park at a well-traveled...

By EMMA MALINAK and HABIB SABET

The University of Vermont’s board of trustees appointed current provost Patricia Prelock to be the university’s interim president at a special meeting on Monday.The board discussed the appointment in an hourlong executive session before voting...

By CARLY BERLIN

When Mary Mojica’s Waterbury apartment flooded last summer, all she could grab were a couple of boxes, some clothes, and her dog, Bella. Since then, Mojica, 59, has taken up residence at the Days Inn in Colchester, with the aid of a voucher from...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that a Salisbury man charged with aggravated murder for his alleged role in a crash that killed 19-year-old Rutland City Police officer Jessica Ebbighausen last summer will remain behind bars while the case against...

By EMMA COTTON

For years, lawmakers, state officials, fuel dealers and members of the public have wondered, and worried, about the cost of Vermont’s proposed clean heat standard, a regulatory standard designed to reduce climate emissions that come from heating homes...

By JUAN VEGA DE SOTO and ERIN PETENKO

Not since 2014 had so few people voted in Vermont’s primary elections. On Tuesday, fewer people participated in choosing the Democratic and Republican nominees for November’s general election than in any of the four previous election cycles, according...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The Vermont Supreme Court has doubled the penalty for a Woodstock lawyer — suspending his law license for two years — ruling that his lack of remorse and failure to cooperate with an investigation into his misconduct had warranted the tougher...

By JUAN VEGA DE SOTO

In Vermont’s congressional races, Tuesday was one of the quietest nights in recent memory. The two incumbents seeking reelection, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., won their Democratic primaries unopposed. On the...

By SHAUN ROBINSON

Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman and former state legislator John Rodgers won the Democratic and Republican primaries, respectively, for Vermont’s second-highest office on Tuesday, setting the stage for a general election clash between two Statehouse veterans...

By PETER D’AURIA

Vermont hospitals are seeking the Green Mountain Care Board’s permission to increase commercial insurance charges and their revenue from patients, an annual process that comes amid widespread concern over hospitals’ financial health.Each year,...