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By NATALIE BANKMANN

Guy Crosby goes through lots of plastics on his farm in North Hartland, mostly sheets used to wrap up bales of hay. For years, he had to throw them into landfills because agricultural plastics are bulky and hard to clean, and few recycling centers take them.

By PETER D’AURIA

The Vermont Department for Children and Families asked a judge Monday to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it surveilled pregnant Vermonters, arguing that the suit did not stand up to legal scrutiny.

By PETER D’AURIA

A Norwich University professor and the advisor to the student newspaper filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that administrators mounted a “pressure campaign” to suppress stories that reflected poorly on the university.

By PETER D’AURIA

At Rutland Regional Medical Center, administrators have long wanted to combine two different parts of the hospital: the birthing center and the Women’s and Children’s Unit. 

By HABIB SABET

DERBY LINE, Vt. — Local Canadian officials hosted a news conference Friday to condemn the U.S. government’s decision to limit Canadians’ access to an iconic library and theater that straddles the northern border in Vermont.

By ERIN PETENKO

The Vermont Department of Health has confirmed a case of measles in a school-aged child in Lamoille County — the first to be discovered in 2025. 

By HABIB SABET

Nearly a year after graduate students at the University of Vermont voted to unionize, the university and union leadership continue to spar over who exactly has the right to join the union.

By CARLY BERLIN

MONTGOMERY, Vt. — Standing near the main crossroads in this eastern Franklin County town of 1,200, Charlie Hancock made his pitch for the town center’s first-ever municipal sewer system. It’s one the longtime Selectboard chair has had plenty of time to refine — it’s been six-plus years since community wastewater emerged as a key objective for the town. 

By SHAUN ROBINSON

MONTPELIER — Rep. Troy Headrick, I-Burlington, posed a question in a recent flyer sent to his colleagues in the Vermont House and Senate: “What if we got it wrong?”

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

On the back of historic property tax increases last year, school boards are attempting to heed voters’ call for relief. Many have worked to bring low- or no-increase budgets to school district voters on Town Meeting Day.

BY KEVIN O’CONNOR

A municipal budget vote granting $3,000 for community beautification might seem to be, in the words of Martha Stewart, a “good thing.” But local government leaders know it can come with a less-sightly flip side.

By AUDITI GUHA

Vermont’s most diverse school district on Wednesday night became the first in Vermont to pass a sanctuary school policy to protect students and families from the impact of federal immigration enforcement actions, according to its superintendent.

By PETER D’AURIA

Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine told lawmakers Tuesday that the risk of avian flu in the general public is overall low, although farm workers may be at higher risk of contracting the condition.

By CARLY BERLIN

Inside a cavernous factory at the end of a road in East Montpelier, houses get built piece by piece on an assembly line. 

By CARLY BERLIN

Middlebury is getting a new neighborhood.

By SHAUN ROBINSON

MONTPELIER — Vermont’s economy, and the country’s as a whole, is in “exceptional” shape, the state’s economists told a panel of top fiscal lawmakers Wednesday — but cautioned their outlook was tempered by uncertainty over the actions President Donald Trump has pledged to take, or already taken, early on in his second term.

By SHAUN ROBINSON

ST. ALBANS, Vt. — Poulin Grain, an animal feed manufacturer with two plants in northern Vermont, relies on crops imported from Canada, such as corn and oats, to make its products. But the company’s costs would grow substantially — and, perhaps, unsustainably — if President Donald Trump’s proposed 25% tariff on products from Canada goes into effect, Poulin’s senior vice president, Mike Tetreault, said Monday. 

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

When American revolutionaries signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, they noted “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

By PETER D’AURIA

MONTPELIER — Vermont’s Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case challenging Gov. Phil Scott’s appointment of Zoie Saunders to be the state’s interim education secretary last year after lawmakers rejected her.

By CARLY BERLIN

During the first days of his fifth term in office, Gov. Phil Scott has emphasized a familiar priority: creating more housing across Vermont. At a Tuesday press conference at the Statehouse, members of his administration outlined how they want lawmakers to do that.

By KRISTEN FOUNTAIN

The Green Mountain Care Board will sign on to an agreement that moves Vermont towards a new federal model for health care reform, following a vote Friday that split the members of the five-person regulatory body.