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By IZZY WAGNER

Scientists from the University of Vermont and Utah State University have helped develop a new tool that could detect low water quality, enabling communities to issue better warnings and more efficiently provide a clean water supply.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A Shelburne, Vt., police sergeant had a YouTube video playing on a computer tablet mounted in his cruiser when he struck and killed a cyclist in South Burlington, according to documents filed in support of a felony charge against him.

By OLIVIA GIEGER

Stark differences in opinion about using bait to hunt coyotes emerged during a hearing Wednesday over a House bill that would ban the practice for all smaller fur-bearing animals. 

By AUDITI GUHA

The University of Vermont instituted a 60-day hiring freeze Tuesday in response to recent federal actions that could affect its funding, according to a memo from school officials.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Despite more than a year of political focus on the cost of Vermont’s education system, voters across the state by and large backed their local school budgets on Town Meeting Day.

By PETER D’AURIA

During a visit last month to Community Health Centers’ Riverside location, in Burlington’s Old North End, CEO Jeffrey McKee encouraged a reporter to look around the crowded waiting room. That lobby, McKee said, “was probably the most culturally diverse place you will visit this year in Vermont.”

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Vermont authorities have charged 25 Canadian nationals in connection with a nationwide “grandparent scam” that defrauded older Americans out of more than $21 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Vermont. 

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Caledonia County Sheriff James Hemond died over the weekend at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the department announced in a statement Sunday.  

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

Amid a head-splitting world of political clamor, talk of a Vermont Town Meeting full of gentle gaveling and friendly points of order might sound like just the prescription.

By ERIN PETENKO

The Vermont Department of Health has stopped including data on COVID-19 cases and deaths in its weekly surveillance reports. 

By KLARA BAUTERS

A virtual town hall hosted by U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Congresswoman Becca Balint, D-Vt., drew roughly 34,000 participants Wednesday night as uncertainty over the future of federal programs took center stage.

By ALAN J. KEAYS and GRETA SOLSAA

MANCHESTER, Vt. — Three people whose small plane crashed Wednesday morning near the summit of Mount Equinox were rescued with the help of a helicopter that lowered a basket to pluck the trio from the snowy and remote location.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A former Stowe man already charged in connection with the 2023 deaths of two Massachusetts men in Vermont has been indicted on new charges that could carry the possibility of the death penalty if convicted.

By GRETA SOLSAA

The Mill River Unified Union School District, under the banner of its mascot minutemen touting muskets, is now caught in a battle of its own over whether certain firearm imagery is appropriate in a yearbook photo. 

By YARDAIN AMRON

A Shelburne Police Department sergeant who struck and killed a stationary cyclist in South Burlington with his cruiser this past November was cited into court on a felony charge, state police said in a news release Thursday evening. 

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

When Vermont-schooled Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin arrived at the Killington Ski Resort last Thanksgiving for its annual World Cup women’s race, she didn’t expect a shocking fall would force her to take a break.

By EMMA COTTON

Vermont Asylum Assistance Project, one of the only organizations that provides legal representation to noncitizen immigrants in Vermont, lost half its staff Tuesday, according to Jill Martin Diaz, the organization’s executive director. 

By KLARA BAUTERS

On Thursday evening, Caitlin Morgan, a food systems scientist, picked up a call from her boss at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service at the University of Vermont. He told her that everyone who was still within their probationary period should brace for an imminent termination letter.

By ERIN PETENKO

Rock of Ages, a Barre-based granite company, has ended its quarry tours and shuttered its visitors center, effectively ending public access to its operations after more than 100 years. 

By OLIVIA GIEGER

Michael Myers, a 51-year-old incarcerated man at the Southern State Correctional Facility died Monday morning, according to releases from the Vermont State Police and Department of Corrections.