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By PETER D’AURIA

More Vermonters are enrolled in the University of Vermont’s incoming first-year class this year, bucking — for the second year in a row — a slow decline in in-state enrollment.UVM administrators said the incoming class of 2028 is projected to include...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

New details of a 2022 murder in Springfield, Vt., illustrate an extensive police investigation that tied together the alleged major players in a particularly violent period for the town.Vermont State Police last week announced the arrest of Paul...

By K. FIEGENBAUM

The Lyndon community has spoken.The town’s hazard mitigation committee decided against taking any steps toward permanently removing the historic Sanborn Covered Bridge from its perch over the Passumpsic River, despite a recent study showing that...

By SHAUN ROBINSON

U.S. Border Patrol is reporting record numbers of migrants attempting to cross the Canadian border into Vermont and neighboring states — prompting the agency to bolster its ranks and apprehend more people in the region in response.At the same time,...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

After investigating accusations that a representative repeatedly bullied her district mate throughout the 2024 legislative session by secretly pouring water into his tote bag, the Vermont House Ethics Panel initiated a “restorative justice process as...

By EMMA COTTON

A coalition of environmental groups is raising concerns about the presence of PFAS chemicals in effluent from GlobalFoundries, a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Essex Junction. The plant routinely discharges into the Winooski River. The...

By ERIN PETENKO

Interim Vermont State University President David Bergh’s contract has been extended through 2026, the Vermont State Colleges board of trustees announced Wednesday. Bergh was appointed to the presidency in November 2023, the third person to serve in...

By SHAUN ROBINSON

A new Vermont Department of Health rule requires food producers who work out of a home kitchen to put a safety disclaimer onto their products — raising concerns among some purveyors that the state is taking too firm a hand in regulating such small...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Vermont State Police said Wednesday that Paul Lachapelle Jr., of Littleton, New Hampshire, was arrested in that state, and charged with the 2022 murder of Justin Gilliam in Springfield, Vermont.“VSP’s investigation determined the homicide was related...

By HABIB SABET

Vermont health officials are recommending that people in towns at high risk for eastern equine encephalitis stay indoors from dusk until dawn and take extra precautions to avoid contact with potentially infected mosquitos. The virus, which can cause...

By AUDITI GUHA

When the Peacham School lost its bus route last November due to a bus driver shortage, Principal Samuel McLeod was in a quandary.The Caledonia County K-7 school has about 70 students and most of them depend on a contracted bus service that runs a...

By PETER D’AURIA and ERIN PETENKO

Health insurance prices in Vermont are high — and getting higher.Average premium prices for individual marketplace plans in Vermont are among the highest in the country, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, costing...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled against a Rutland man seeking unemployment benefits after he was fired from his transit job for testing positive for cannabis, despite having a legal prescription for its use.Ivo Skoric worked for the Marble Valley...

By THEO WELLS-SPACKMAN

The Vermont Legislative Joint Fiscal Office projected in 2022 that cannabis would likely become a roughly $86 million industry by June 2024. As the fiscal year closed in June, according to Cannabis Control Board Chair James Pepper, the retail market...

By EMMA MALINAK

Two months after lawmakers voted to overhaul the state’s land use and development law, Vermonters have a way to visualize temporary changes made to Act 250.Areas that are currently exempt from the Act 250 land use review process — and thus open for...

By AUDITI GUHA

Vijay Singh, a longtime public media professional, will be the next chief executive officer at Vermont Public, the organization announced Friday. On Oct. 1, he’ll take over from Brendan Kinney, who became the interim CEO in October 2023 after Scott...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

North Country Union High School students will start the school year learning in tents after testing registered high levels of PCBs in the school’s primary academic wing.The polychlorinated biphenyls have also pushed back the start of school until...

By CHLOE JAD

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it has approved and authorized administration of a new COVID-19 vaccine formula, and Vermonters will soon be able to access those vaccinations at primary care offices and pharmacies in...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

An Iowa woman has been sentenced to a year in prison for illegally cashing more than $300,000 in Social Security checks intended for her mother, a Brattleboro, Vt., resident who died in 1994. Ella Mae Woods, 76, had pleaded guilty in May to a single...

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

A group of local investors is planning to acquire a controlling interest in Killington — the largest ski resort in Eastern North America — and neighboring Pico Mountain from the Utah-based Powdr Corp.Killington homeowners Phill Gross, co-founder of...