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By OLIVIA Q. PINTAIR

As the end of the 2023 tax season approaches, state officials are calling attention to a new tax credit that offers financial support to families with children under the age of 6.In May 2022, Gov. Phil Scott signed the child tax credit, H.510, into...

By TIFFANY TAN

State officials recently flagged the presence of an anti-seizure medication in some opioid deaths in 2022, a year when a record-breaking 237 Vermonters died from accidental opioid overdoses.Thirty-one of the fatalities, or 13% of the total, had taken...

By ERIN PETENKO

Vermont had “low” COVID community levels over the past week, the state Department of Health reported Wednesday.The number of people admitted to the hospital for COVID ticked up slightly, from 37 to 43 in the past week, according to the department. But...

By DOMINIC MINADEO

The neighbors reported witnessing baby goats dying on a farm in the center of Charlotte last summer. The kids’ screams were heard next door, and neighbors said they could see carcasses from their property. Yet while the animals’ plight was in full...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Two-thirds of Vermont’s 254 municipalities can expect a reappraisal order this year, according to the state’s Department of Taxes. And with so many townwide reappraisals in order, the state faces another issue: a lack of resources to handle the...

By PETER D’AURIA

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case called Carson v. Makin, finding the state of Maine could not withhold public money from private religious schools simply because those schools might use the money for religious purposes. In...

By RILEY ROBINSON

A bill in the Vermont House would allow for a new alternative to cremation or burial — converting human remains into compost.Rep. Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, who is co-sponsoring the bill, said experiences on her farm sparked her interest. She and...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

Gov. Phil Scott on Monday filled three of four vacant judgeships on the Vermont Superior Court. If confirmed by the Senate, Elizabeth Novotny, of Jericho, Vt., Heather Gray, of Quechee, and Justin Jiron, of Underhill, Vt., would join the bench.Scott...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A former Vermont woman who fled the country more than a decade ago with her daughter — in a custody battle with her former civil union partner that became an international kidnapping case — is now in custody. Lisa Miller was listed Monday afternoon as...

By ANNE WALLACE ALLEN

NORTHFIELD, Vt. — Darn Tough Vermont, the Northfield-based sock maker, is shutting down its manufacturing operations through March 27 to minimize the risk of COVID-19. Workers will receive full pay and benefits during that time, said Brooke Kaplan,...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A former mental health counselor at the Springfield, Vt., prison has pleaded not guilty to a charge alleging she had sex with an inmate at the facility while she worked there before getting fired.Victoria Calogero, 31, of...

By ALAN J. KEAYSBURLINGTON — Steven Bourgoin was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison Monday on five counts of murder and other charges in a wrong-way crash that killed five teenagers nearly three years ago on Interstate 89 in Williston.Judge Kevin...

By ANNE WALLACE ALLEN

Vermont and New Hampshire hold the No. 2 and 3 spots in the country for the number of vacation homes per capita.Maine is ranked No. 1, according to a study by a Chicago-based company called Digital Third Coast. The study’s authors said they researched...