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By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Vermont Republican Party has dismantled Democrats’ supermajority in the Vermont Senate, unseating four incumbents and dominating races for open seats. Republicans toppled Democratic incumbents in the Addison, Orange, Chittenden-North and Grand...

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

DUMMERSTON, Vt. — A century after becoming the first English-language author to win the Nobel Prize in literature, the late Rudyard Kipling has gone from being one of the world’s most widely read names to, in the charitable words of his latest...

By KLARA BAUTERS

As the election approaches, people across the nation are feeling the anxiety and tension that comes with heightened political polarization. And, experts say, children and teenagers are also likely absorbing some of that stress.“We certainly have a...

By KLARA BAUTERS

While spiny softshell turtles are threatened in Vermont and spotted turtles are endangered, wood turtles could soon be threatened in the state due to land use change. That is why the state’s Fish & Wildlife Department is watching the species closely...

By PETER D'AURIA

Last month, a consultant released a sweeping report that recommended big changes for Vermont’s health care system, including “major restructuring” at four community hospitals.The 144-page state-commissioned document lays out in detail a series of...

By COREY MCDONALD

The University of Vermont on Friday approved tuition increases for both in-state and out-of-state students for the 2025-2026 academic year.Board trustees and university officials voted Friday to increase out-of-state tuition by 4.5% to $44,646, and...

By PETER D’AURIA

The University of Vermont Medical Center will appeal orders from the Green Mountain Care Board limiting its revenue and prices for the next 12 months, the hospital announced Tuesday.Vermont’s largest hospital is seeking to overturn two orders from the...

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — When the late engineer and entrepreneur James Hartness — an early aviator, astronomer and Vermont’s governor from 1921 to 1923 — bequeathed 85 acres of local land to this town, the deed expressed his hopes for the wooded property to...

By KLARA BANTERS

Kandace Lockwood was one of dozens of artists who had gathered in Stowe for last weekend’s Stowe Foliage Arts Festival. She traveled from Utica, N.Y., with a booth full of handcrafted pottery to showcase, and was among the artists who opted to stay...

By PETER D’AURIA

The president of Norwich University said Monday that the university would allow its suspended student newspaper, The Guidon, to resume publishing but still with an unspecified level of oversight.It’s not clear when exactly the paper, which has been...

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...