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By WILSON RING

MONTPELIER — Thousands of people rallied across the country Friday as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility in support of the rights of transgender people and their resilience amid what many denounced as an increasingly hostile...

By FRANCES MIZE

LEBANON — When a nonprofit coalition takes over energy procurement for a handful of Upper Valley towns later this spring, it promises to offer big savings for consumers who have seen rates at the state’s largest utilities soar in recent years.But in...

By TRIS WYKES

Dartmouth College football coach Buddy Teevens’ “failure to yield right of way” contributed to him being struck by a pickup truck while riding a bicycle earlier this month in Florida, according to an enhanced Florida State Police crash report released...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Two area nonprofit organizations are joining together to celebrate the area’s youngest residents while promoting pollinators.From 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at George Peabody Library (7922 Route 113), young children and their caregivers can gather to plant...

By DAN MACKIE

On a recent night as we watched the NCAA basketball tournament, I blurted out to myself and the universe, “Now why didn’t I play college ball?”It was an ironic lament, about the road not taken, the ball not dribbled.My wife, Dede, lowered her knitting...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — A partnership between the city and a nonprofit to build and operate a publicly owned child care center is raising concerns among Upper Valley child care providers, who worry the project will exacerbate the region’s ongoing child care...

By SCHUYLER DIXON

DALLAS — This Final Four is a first for Virginia Tech and coach Kenny Brooks, and he’s set to match wits with a counterpart who beat him by 42 points the last time the two met in March Madness. LSU coach Kim Mulkey won three national championships in...

Here’s a look at Easter Egg hunts that are coming up in the Upper Valley. Email additions and updates to calendar@vnews.com.Saturday, April 1 Hanover: 9 a.m., Richmond Middle School, 63 Lyme Road. Ages 3 to 5: 9:30 a.m. Grades K-2: 10 a.m. Grades 3-5:...

LEBANON — Sustainable Lebanon and Lebanon Rotary will be collecting Styrofoam for recycling on Saturday morning. The collection accepts No. 6 Styrofoam, which largely includes blocks of packaging foam used for TVs and appliances, Styrofoam coolers,...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Vermont Adult Learning is hosting a free, two-week heat pump installation training in April.The training, which is set to run from April 10-19, includes transportation to and from training centers, childcare stipends, and...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Hanover Terrace Health and Rehabilitation Center has been faulted for failing to prevent or properly address abuse that contributed to the painful death of a resident in January.State inspectors found that the facility on Lyme Road put...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.It’s a move...

NEW LONDON — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters approved five zoning amendments. The amendments included: a clarification of the sign regulations; allowing electric vehicle charging stations by special exemption in the commercial zone; allowing for...

LYME — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Leigh Prince and Kristen Roth were the top vote getters in a three-way race for two three-year terms on the School Board.They earned 276 and 309 votes, respectively, besting Darin Knaus, who earned 176 votes.In an...

NEW LONDON — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters of the Kearsarge Regional School District, which includes the Upper Valley towns of New London and Springfield, N.H., approved an operating budget of $51.1 million.They also approved a new agreement...

By KATHY McCORMACK

CONCORD — New Hampshire’s highest court on Wednesday turned away the latest attempt to get a sentence reduction for Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage lover to have her husband killed in 1990.Smart, 55, was 22...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Quechee man who has twice been involved in incidents in which he was shot was found in violation of his probation and ordered to report to residential treatment program.James Luce, 23, of Luce Meadow Road in Quechee, who was...

CHARLESTOWN — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters rejected petitioned articles that would have had the members of the Charlestown Fire Department elect the fire chief, 290-364, and that would have decreased the number of people on the Selectboard to...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — The Hood Museum of Art and the Dartmouth Anthropology Department have discovered the skeletal remains of 15 Native Americans in its collections, the college announced Tuesday.Some of the discovered bones were a part of human osteology...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — The city’s latest proposed site for a new fire station — just about 1,000 feet from the existing building — is already receiving objections from nearby residents and business owners.With the city’s pending purchase of three connected...