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By AUSTYN GAFFNEY

Vermont, the state with the lowest overall carbon emissions in the country, has become a national leader in efforts to address climate change. But this year, lawmakers were subdued about further efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

By HABIB SABET

Vermont has joined more than half the states across the country in banning smartphones from schools, a move state education officials and lawmakers have said will go a long way toward alleviating compulsive social media use among teens while removing classroom distractions.

By AUSTYN GAFFNEY

On Tuesday, as the federal government continued its unprecedented attack on clean energy and climate funding, Vermont’s Climate Council published its 2025 Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote resiliency in the state.

By COREY McDONALD

Gov. Phil Scott on Tuesday signed a landmark education reform bill into law, laying the groundwork for a historic transformation of Vermont’s public education system.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Attorneys for Teresa Youngblut want more time to present information as they try to convince federal prosecutors not to file charges that carry the death penalty against their client in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. border patrol agent earlier this year in Vermont.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Despite years of work and more than $2 million spent, the Vermont State Colleges system announced it would stop working to create a dental therapy program.

By COREY McDONALD

Ethics complaints filed with the Vermont Senate against Sens. Seth Bongartz, D-Bennington, and Scott Beck, R-Caledonia, allege they used their positions on a critical committee negotiating the final form of a wide-ranging education bill to advance provisions that benefited the private schools they are associated with.

By HABIB SABET

As ECFiber and the company that currently runs its operations continue to spar in court, the communication union district announced that its new service provider has hired its first chief executive officer.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

MONTPELIER — The Vermont Legislature on Monday passed the year’s landmark education reform package, setting in motion years of transformation to the state’s public school and property tax systems. 

By PETER D’AURIA

The president of the state employees union accused the Vermont Department for Children and Families of retaliating against her after she spoke out about a new return-to-office policy — retribution that, she said, included secretly filming her during a remote staff meeting.

By SHAUN ROBINSON

President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday told states and other recipients of federal transportation funding that they could lose those dollars if they do not comply with the White House’s interpretation of federal laws — including on immigration.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 42½ years in prison for shooting and killing his wife in a camper in Bolton. They had traveled to Vermont to mark their one-year wedding anniversary. 

By SHAUN ROBINSON

MONTPELIER — Two months ago, leaders from an Abenaki nation based in Quebec urged Vermont lawmakers at a panel in the Statehouse to reconsider a contentious past decision: granting state tribal recognition to four groups based throughout the state. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

A federal judge has reaffirmed his order that the government transfer a detained Tufts University international student back to Vermont from Louisiana after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Vermont appealed the decision earlier this week. 

By HABIB SABET

Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark is joining the top prosecutors of 11 other states in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, the Attorney General’s office announced Wednesday.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The federal government is appealing a judge’s ruling ordering the transfer of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University student currently detained in Louisiana at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, to a Vermont facility.

By NATALIE BANKMANN

Guy Crosby goes through lots of plastics on his farm in North Hartland, mostly sheets used to wrap up bales of hay. For years, he had to throw them into landfills because agricultural plastics are bulky and hard to clean, and few recycling centers take them.

By PETER D’AURIA

The Vermont Department for Children and Families asked a judge Monday to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it surveilled pregnant Vermonters, arguing that the suit did not stand up to legal scrutiny.

By PETER D’AURIA

A Norwich University professor and the advisor to the student newspaper filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that administrators mounted a “pressure campaign” to suppress stories that reflected poorly on the university.

By PETER D’AURIA

At Rutland Regional Medical Center, administrators have long wanted to combine two different parts of the hospital: the birthing center and the Women’s and Children’s Unit. 

By HABIB SABET

DERBY LINE, Vt. — Local Canadian officials hosted a news conference Friday to condemn the U.S. government’s decision to limit Canadians’ access to an iconic library and theater that straddles the northern border in Vermont.