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By JUAN VEGA DE SOTO

In Vermont’s congressional races, Tuesday was one of the quietest nights in recent memory. The two incumbents seeking reelection, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., won their Democratic primaries unopposed. On the...

By SHAUN ROBINSON

Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman and former state legislator John Rodgers won the Democratic and Republican primaries, respectively, for Vermont’s second-highest office on Tuesday, setting the stage for a general election clash between two Statehouse veterans...

By PETER D’AURIA

Vermont hospitals are seeking the Green Mountain Care Board’s permission to increase commercial insurance charges and their revenue from patients, an annual process that comes amid widespread concern over hospitals’ financial health.Each year,...

By CHLOE JAD

A man in his 40s from Chittenden County is the first detected human case of the rare eastern equine encephalitis in Vermont since 2012, according to a joint press release issued Friday by the Vermont Department of Health and the Agency of Agriculture,...

By JUAN VEGA DE SOTO

Behind the customers ordering pastries at the counter, somewhere among the movement of bakers, cooks and delivery drivers for the Red Hen Baking Co. in Middlesex, two women from the northern highland region of Nicaragua prepared for the lunch...

By AUDITI GUHA

ESSEX, Vt. — With the Essex Experience shopping complex at capacity, its owner has his sights set on a new project in the plaza: four green buildings that would bring a total of 170 rental units of workforce housing. In an interview last week, Peter...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

In early 2023, House Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, issued verbal and written warnings to Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman after state legislators reported feeling uncomfortable when Zuckerman offered them access to a supply of menstrual products...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

When Vermont voters fill out their primary ballots next week, the party labels beside candidates’ names may not always mean what they seem.Several candidates running as Democrats in Vermont’s gubernatorial and legislative races have a demonstrated...

By KATE KAMPNER

Julie Parker-Dickinson, a master gardener and a second-grade teacher, was encouraging kids about their futures back in 2017 when she realized something: She didn’t feel she was doing anything to ensure a bright future would still be there for them.She...

By JUAN VEGA DE SOTO

The long drama of Goddard College’s dissolution might have reached its final scene. On Thursday morning, a community group named the Greatwood Project announced that its bid for the Plainfield, Vt., campus had been accepted by the school’s board of...

By COREY MCDONALD

The Vermont Supreme Court recently affirmed a lower court decision that the state and the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union were immune from legal challenges brought by the parents of a student who received a COVID-19 vaccine against their...

By PETER D’AURIA

The ACLU of Vermont has filed suit against Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine, alleging that the state’s top health official illegally altered a document of recommendations about how to spend money from settlements with drug manufacturers and...

By CHLOE JAD

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets has launched a 2024 Flood Loss and Damage Survey and is urging farmers to fill out the online form by August 31.The purpose of the survey is to gather data “as thoroughly as possible” regarding the...

By PETER D’AURIA

Just over a week after the remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl caused flooding across central and northern Vermont, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are on the ground assessing damage in the state, Gov. Phil Scott said Friday. FEMA officials...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

In a motion filed Wednesday, Gov. Phil Scott’s administration fired back at the two Vermont senators suing the governor and Interim Education Secretary Zoie Saunders, asking the court to dismiss the case. The motion, penned by two lawyers in the...

By EMMA COTTON and CHLOE JAD

Zach Mangione, owner of Cross Farm in Barnet, watched this week’s storm warily as it approached Vermont but thought he would be able to manage an expected 2 to 4 inches of rain. A friend, who was pumping water from his own basement the night of July...

By CHLOE JAD

Volunteer and fundraising systems established in the wake of the July 2023 floods are being revived after flooding once again tore through central and northern Vermont earlier this month. “More help is always needed,” Jennifer Morrison, the state’s...

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

When John McDermott was ordained as a priest 35 years ago, both the new cleric and the nearly two-century-old Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese — the state’s largest religious denomination — were awash in historic highs.Standing before then-Bishop John...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

Nearly a week since yet another bout of destructive flooding hit Vermont, the full picture of the storm’s damage began to come into focus Tuesday.At a morning press conference in the state’s flood response center in Berlin, Deputy Commissioner of...

By GRAMHAM KREWINGHAUS

Passenger and freight rail across central and northern Vermont was disrupted by last week’s flooding, but almost all lines were back in service Monday, according to the state Agency of Transportation. Freight rail service between Montpelier and Barre...