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By AUDITI GUHA

A Vermont judge has thrown out a lawsuit backed by a national conservative group that tried to block noncitizen voting in Burlington.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Gov. Phil Scott’s education reform ideas have absorbed much of the Legislature’s attention, but lawmakers are growing impatient with his administration for not yet introducing a bill with all the details. 

By PETER D’AURIA

University of Vermont Health Network leaders met with a varied reception in the Vermont Statehouse Thursday, with back-to-back hearings in a skeptical House committee and a friendlier Senate one.

By OLIVIA GIEGER

The University of Vermont has leveled up when it comes to its standing as a research institution. 

By K. FIEGENBAUM

Residents at the southern tip of Orleans County are taking the housing crisis into their own hands. 

By COREY MCDONALD

A lawsuit has been filed against the Burlington Police Department, alleging that a police officer used excessive force and made an illegal arrest, bringing a man to the ground and breaking his wrist.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Vermont Supreme Court Friday dismissed a suit filed by two senators over Gov. Phil Scott’s appointment of Zoie Saunders as interim education secretary, calling the case “moot.”

By PETER D’AURIA and ALAN J. KEAYS

On Feb. 5, a neighborhood of duplexes in a wooded corner of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was jarred awake before sunrise by the sound of bangs and bullhorns.

By OLIVIA GIEGER

BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont announced Monday that its president and CEO, Don George, plans to retire at the end of 2025 after 16 years in the role.  

By AUDITI GUHA

More than 100 people have signed a petition calling for the resignation or removal of Sherry Sousa, the superintendent of the Mountain Views Supervisory Union, in the wake of a VTDigger story last month about persistent racial harassment a 13-year-old Black student faced at Woodstock Union Middle and High School.

By ERIN PETENKO

The registered nurses of Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, Vt., voted in favor of unionizing Thursday after four months of organizing.

Bu ERIN PETENKO

Health Commissioner Mark Levine announced his retirement Friday after eight years serving as the head of the Vermont Department of Health.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Gov. Phil Scott’s education proposal would allow every student to opt into a school choice lottery system within their regional school district. 

By CARLY BERLIN

After state leaders signed off on new restrictions to Vermont’s motel voucher program last year, over 1,500 people experiencing homelessness were pushed out of hotels and motels. The mass wave of evictions last fall left many Vermonters in precarious situations, some sleeping in tents — including families with young children — and prompted public outcry from service providers, municipal officials, and even some legislators who helped craft the law. 

By YARDAIN AMRON

Authorities now believe the disappearance of a Bradford man last month was “suspicious” and could be related to a crime, Vermont State Police said in a press release Tuesday night. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

As part of Gov. Phil Scott’s wide-ranging proposal for change in public education, he suggested transferring rulemaking authority from the State Board of Education to the Vermont Agency of Education. 

By KLARA BAUTERS

ST. ALBANS, Vt. — Citing mental health issues, a judge on Friday handed Mbyayenge Mafuta a 15-to-30 year sentence, with all but eight years suspended, in the beating death of his cellmate two years ago.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Vermont Legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal analysts are raising concerns with lawmakers over a wide-ranging overhaul of state administrative software expected to cost more than $70 million.

By SHAUN ROBINSON

An organization that offers legal assistance to asylum-seekers in Vermont has created an online form for people to report immigration enforcement activity they see, or suspect they’ve seen, in and around the state — an effort, advocates said this week, to create a more comprehensive picture of how federal officials are operating across the area.

By AUDITI GUHA

President Donald Trump’s executive order that aims to block federal funding and restrict gender-affirming care for people under 19 has transgender residents and advocates alarmed, though health care officials have sought to offer a measure of reassurance.