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By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

A new estimate puts the projected average property tax bill increase next year at more than 20%. In response, the House tax committee is considering its options, including changing a controversial cap on local property tax rate increases.Summarizing...

By BABETTE STOLK and KRISTEN FOUNTAIN

MONTPELIER — A discussion about whether online-only public meetings should continue is heating up under the Golden Dome, as a pandemic-era state policy that allowed them will expire this summer.Both the House and Senate government operations...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

In a rare step into presidential politics, Gov. Phil Scott on Friday endorsed fellow Republican Nikki Haley for the GOP nomination. The Vermont governor’s endorsement of the former South Carolina governor was, as much as anything, a rebuke of yet...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

Despite last year’s hand-wringing over an anticipated downturn of Vermont’s economy, one year later, state economists on Thursday were notably optimistic about where the state’s finances stand.“We have no recession in the forecast,” economic adviser...

By CARLY BERLIN

When temperatures plummet across Vermont, and traditional shelters are full, the state eases eligibility requirements for its motel housing program to get unhoused Vermonters out of the cold and into a room. But this winter, many motels participating...

By TIFFANY TAN

BENNINGTON — A New York man who admitted to scamming multiple people around the country in deals involving hay and maple syrup was sentenced Friday to five to 10 years in Vermont prison.The court judgment came a decade after Vermont’s earliest...

By CARLY BERLIN

After Barre City suffered extreme damage from the July 2023 floods, constituents began to approach Rep. Jonathan Williams, D-Barre City, saying they had no idea they lived in a home at risk of flooding.“That happened day after day, day after day,”...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

One elected state office holder has taken the rare step of filing a lawsuit against another elected state office holder, asking a judge to settle a dispute over the latter’s obligations under Vermont law.State Auditor Doug Hoffer sued Attorney General...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Two weeks before this school year, testing discovered elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, the carcinogens known as PCBs, at Bellows Falls Union High School. Since then, Andrew Haas, superintendent of the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union,...

By SHAUN ROBINSON

Members of Vermont’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission are asking the Legislature for authority to limit public access to their meetings, in part, to ensure the safety of those who testify before the panel about experiencing racism and...

By JIMMY NESBITT

Norwich University president Mark Anarumo was under investigation for violating unspecified school policies before he resigned last week, the university’s board of trustees said in a written statement Tuesday. According to preliminary findings from...

By HABIB SABET

The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is urging Vermont anglers to exercise extra caution while ice fishing this month due to inconsistent ice conditions caused by variable weather.“What’s different about this year is just how late the ice seems to...

By EMMA COTTON

ISLE LA MOTTE — The Grand Isle Sheriff’s Department is looking for a suspect who recently vandalized a local organic farm, citing the farm’s displayed pride flag in a letter left behind.At around 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 2, a person trespassed on to Sandy...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The president of Norwich University said he is departing the military school after more than three years on the job.Mark Anarumo told VtDigger on Friday that he was leaving by “mutual” decision. Provost and Dean of the Faculty Karen Gaines will serve...

By SHAUN ROBINSON

Gov. Phil Scott’s administration is urging lawmakers to increase the consequences for people accused of crimes who violate conditions of release — and to make changes to Vermont’s bail policies that could result in more people being held in jail ahead...

By KRISTEN FOUNTAIN

A former employee and frequent public critic of OneCare Vermont has dropped his wrongful termination lawsuit after reaching a settlement agreement with the state’s largest accountable care organization outside of court. The case brought by Robert...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

When Barre City police pulled over a gray Ford SUV in September, they said they discovered a 17-year-old boy in the back seat carrying 50 grams of crack, $5,000 and a pistol with its serial number scratched off. But rather than file charges against...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

MIDDLEBURY — A 14-year-old Burlington boy faces a charge of second-degree murder after police said he was waving a loaded firearm in a vehicle parked in Bristol when it discharged and killed another 14-year-old passenger seated in front of him on...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A Whitingham man facing two counts of murder in the shooting death of a mother and her son told police his actions were “calculated” and that he would rather be in jail than in an “old folks home,” according to charging documents made public...

By MAGGIE CASSIDY

State officials on Tuesday morning confirmed a second death related to July’s catastrophic flooding in Vermont.“We have had our second flood-related death confirmed,” Public Safety Commissioner Jennifer Morrison said during a regular press conference...