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By CHARLOTTE OLIVER

On a Sunday night Kelsey Rice found her abuser at her home again, out on bail after an arrest hours earlier. The courts had ordered him to stay away. He didn’t.

By CHARLOTTE OLIVER

Starting July 1, a new law is set to expand unpaid parental leave for Vermonters — and for the first time, guarantee employees can take off work after the death of a family member. It also defines family relationships more broadly under the law, naming its intention to equitably include LGBTQ+ Vermonters. 

By CHARLOTTE OLIVER

For years Jason Struthers has made a living growing vegetables, raising ducks and cultivating cannabis in his Essex Junction, Vt., backyard, but not without controversy. Neighbors argued first to the city, then later in court, that his half-acre farm has no place in their residential neighborhood — and the Vermont Supreme Court recently ruled in agreement.

By CHARLOTTE OLIVER

Jason Struthers makes a living selling the cannabis he’s licensed to grow in his half-acre backyard in Essex Junction, Vt., — but his growing and raising of ducks on his property has gotten him into tiffs with neighbors and tangled in legal...