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By COREY MCDONALD

A lawsuit filed in federal court on Monday alleges the city of Burlington and Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport officials “improperly retaliated” against a local helicopter company and its owner and violated his first amendment rights after he spoke out against the airport in local media reports.

By YARDAINAMRON

The case of a Tufts University student who is currently detained in Louisiana will continue in Vermont, a federal judge in Burlington ruled late Friday. Judge William Sessions ordered Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) transfer the doctoral student, Rümeysa Öztürk, back to a Vermont facility by May 1. The federal government has four days to appeal.

By HABIBSABET

Amid a growing legal dispute, ECFiber is preparing to part ways with the Maine-based internet service provider that oversees its operations.

BY PETER D’AURIA

Seth Brunell, who was charged with second-degree murder in the 2022 killing of Hinesburg, Vt., transgender woman Fern Feather, reached a surprise plea deal Thursday midway through his trial. 

By AUDITI GUHA

The U.S. government has revoked the visa of a Middlebury College international student, leaving the person at risk for deportation.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

State Education Secretary Zoie Saunders told the Trump administration Monday that Vermont’s schools will continue diversity, equity and inclusion programs and reaffirmed the state’s compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws.

By OLIVIA GIEGER

Two Champlain Valley Union High School students are being forced to leave the U.S., after an order from the Department of Homeland Security suspended a legal parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes slept in one of its bedrooms in 1877. Writer Rudyard Kipling drank lager in its basement bar and played poker in its penthouse suite from 1892 to 1896. Broadcaster Lowell Thomas presented the NBC national radio news live from its ballroom in 1946. And if current owners have their way, someone new will buy this town’s cornerstone Brooks House and soon make their own history.

By AUDITIGUHA

For the past three years the Orange Southwest School District has offered a five-week summer program for elementary students at no cost to families, including meals and transportation.

By COREY McDONALD

Katie DeSanto, the general manager of Phoenix Books, first heard of the plans through a customer: a proposal to build a 107,000-square-foot Amazon distribution facility in Essex, Vt.

By OLIVIA GIEGER

President Donald Trump singled out Vermont and New York state’s climate superfund laws in an executive order signed late Tuesday aimed at gutting them.

By IZZY WAGNER

Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources may trap and remove beavers from roughly 25 state-owned dams impacted by beaver-induced debris.

By HABIBSABET

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England plans to permanently close its St. Johnsbury, Vt., health center on June 3, the organization announced Tuesday. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Democrats in the Vermont House put forward another key piece of their education reform proposal, their alternative to the wide-ranging plan unveiled earlier this year by Republican Gov. Phil Scott.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Following a federal directive that schools ban “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion-related programs, the Vermont Agency of Education last Friday asked school districts to submit compliance certifications. 

By SHAUN ROBINSON

A federal judge in Vermont said Monday he needs to hear more evidence before ruling on whether Rümeysa Öztürk — a Turkish graduate student arrested by federal agents in Massachusetts late last month, and then briefly detained in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in St. Albans — should be released from ICE custody. 

By HABIBSABET

For the second time this legislative session, Gov. Phil Scott vetoed a mid-year spending package on Friday over disagreements with lawmakers about Vermont’s motel voucher program. 

By HABIBSABET

A local group that includes longtime Burke Mountain benefactors and community stakeholders is on the cusp of acquiring the Northeast Kingdom ski resort, according to people familiar with the deal. 

By CARLY BERLIN

The Legislature’s chief lawyer has deemed Gov. Phil Scott’s move to extend motel voucher eligibility for a narrow segment of unhoused Vermonters an “unconstitutional consolidation of power.” 

By ERIN PETENKO

The United States is in the midst of a surge in measles cases driven by unvaccinated children. 

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

Accusers with unresolved clergy misconduct lawsuits are trying to stop the Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese from paying monthly pensions to two unidentified priests who the church acknowledges face credible allegations of sexual abuse.