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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 president of the state employees union accused the Vermont Department for Children and Families of retaliating against her after she spoke out about a new return-to-office policy — retribution that, she said, included secretly filming her during a remote staff meeting.

By SHAUN ROBINSON

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.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON — A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 42½ years in prison for shooting and killing his wife in a camper in Bolton. They had traveled to Vermont to mark their one-year wedding anniversary. 

By SHAUN ROBINSON

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. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

A federal judge has reaffirmed his order that the government transfer a detained Tufts University international student back to Vermont from Louisiana after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Vermont appealed the decision earlier this week. 

By HABIB SABET

Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark is joining the top prosecutors of 11 other states in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, the Attorney General’s office announced Wednesday.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The federal government is appealing a judge’s ruling ordering the transfer of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University student currently detained in Louisiana at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, to a Vermont facility.

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.