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MONTPELIER — The Vermont Senate on Thursday passed its proposed state budget for the 2026 fiscal year, which starts in July.

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President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday told states and other recipients of federal transportation funding that they could lose those dollars if they do not comply with the White House’s interpretation of federal laws — including on immigration.

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MONTPELIER — Two months ago, leaders from an Abenaki nation based in Quebec urged Vermont lawmakers at a panel in the Statehouse to reconsider a contentious past decision: granting state tribal recognition to four groups based throughout the state. 

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A federal judge in Vermont said Monday he needs to hear more evidence before ruling on whether Rümeysa Öztürk — a Turkish graduate student arrested by federal agents in Massachusetts late last month, and then briefly detained in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in St. Albans — should be released from ICE custody. 

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MONTPELIER — The Vermont House on Friday passed its version of the state budget for the 2026 fiscal year, including a proposal that would let top lawmakers access more state dollars to plug feared future losses in federal funding. The bill now heads to the Senate for further consideration and then would go before Gov. Phil Scott.

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Vermont Democrats have a new leader.

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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?”

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MONTPELIER — The Vermont House on Friday passed its version of an annual bill to true-up state spending midway through the fiscal year — and, at least for now, appears to have far more common ground with Gov. Phil Scott over its proposal than not.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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MONTPELIER — Vermont Gov. Phil Scott proposed a $9 billion budget to state lawmakers Tuesday for the 2026 fiscal year, a spending plan that, once again, he said prioritizes making the state more affordable and tackling demographic challenges.

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MONTPELIER — John Rodgers, a Glover Republican, was formally elected Vermont’s next lieutenant governor on Thursday as a vast majority of state legislators voted to affirm his upset win in last fall’s race over Progressive/Democrat David Zuckerman.

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A Vermont defense contractor will pay the federal government $426,000 to settle allegations that it sold the U.S. military protective eyewear with components sourced from outside the country — a violation of defense procurement policy, officials...

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Nearly four years ago, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials outlined a proposal for a line of surveillance towers along the Canadian border in Vermont and New York. Since then, VtDigger has found, the agency has been quietly making good on its...

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is planning to cut the operating hours of some ports of entry between Vermont and Canada early next year, the federal agency said in a Tuesday press release.Starting Jan. 6, 2025, four Vermont crossings that are...

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The parent company of Vermont Castings, a well-known manufacturer of stoves and fireplace inserts, plans to furlough most of the workers at its facilities in Randolph and Bethel around the start of next week, a company spokesperson told...

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John Rodgers, a Republican from Glover, Vt., was elected lieutenant governor of Vermont Tuesday, unseating Progressive/Democrat Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman in a rare ouster of a statewide incumbent. The dramatic conclusion came at the end of a highly...

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In Vermont’s race for lieutenant governor a single label has been front and center.Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, a Progressive/Democrat and produce farmer from Hinesburg, is facing a challenge from John Rodgers of Glover, a former state lawmaker who owns...

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A week after a jury failed, for a second time, to reach a verdict in the assault case against Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore, the prosecutor in the case announced he will not put the sheriff on trial again.Grand Isle State’s Attorney Doug...

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Vermont’s leading candidates for governor agreed at a VtDigger debate Thursday evening that Vermont is worse off today than it has been in the recent past. But they disagreed, in many ways, on who exactly was to blame.For incumbent Republican Gov....