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By HABIB SABET

NEWPORT, Vt. — Track Inc., a leading distributor of snow grooming equipment, straddles the U.S.-Canada border, so it doubly fears being caught in the middle of a trade war between the two nations.

By PETER D’AURIA

State regulators signed off on a proposal from Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt., to construct a roughly $10 million psychiatric unit for adolescents, overruling concerns from the Brattleboro Retreat and a disability advocacy group.

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — For the first time since establishing the state’s only Town Meeting of elected resident representatives six decades ago, this southeastern Vermont hub rejected a proposed municipal budget over the weekend after complaints the $25 million plan for the coming fiscal year would increase taxes by 12%.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education.

By SHAUN ROBINSON

Vermont Democrats have a new leader.

By CARLY BERLIN

Amid an increasingly heated debate over Vermont’s motel voucher program, Gov. Phil Scott’s administration has rejected a compromise proposal on a midyear spending bill presented by Democratic legislative leaders late Tuesday.

By COREY MCDONALD

The University of Vermont on Monday named Dr. Marlene Tromp, Boise State University’s president, as the sole finalist in its presidential search.

By CARLY BERLIN

Without the votes to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto on a midyear spending bill, Democratic leaders in the Legislature have narrowed their focus to asking the governor to extend motel shelter for some unhoused Vermonters.

By PETER D’AURIA

Vermont lawmakers are seeking to implement new oversight measures on hospitals and limit how much they could charge for care, proposals that would significantly change how the state’s largest health care providers can operate. 

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

The calendar says spring starts March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family at Brattleboro’s Lilac Ridge Farm, where the third generation of maple sugarmakers fired up the sap boiler at the beginning of the month.

By ALAN J. KEAYS

BURLINGTON – A federal prosecutor called Serhat Gumrukcu a manipulative charmer who led a band of men in a plot to kill a business partner in a remote part of Vermont more than seven years ago. 

By CARLY BERLIN

Gov. Phil Scott delivered his first veto of the 2025 legislative session over a midyear spending package on Friday, setting up a showdown over Vermont’s motel shelter program.

By EMMA COTTON

Funding aimed at making a struggling Williamstown farm more resilient has been paused. A program that distributes local, free food has been canceled. The Department of Environmental Conservation is missing $10.7 million for clean water quality projects. 

By ERIN PETENKO

Five years ago, Vermont health officials announced the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the state. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

“Over the past year, I have done what I said I was going to do,” Zoie Saunders, Vermont’s secretary of education, told lawmakers on the Senate Education Committee Tuesday as they considered her appointment as the state’s top public education official for the second time in less than a year. 

By GRETA SOLSAA

Middlebury College is among 60 higher education institutions that received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education on Monday, warning of “potential enforcement actions” if the schools do not take sufficient action to protect Jewish students on their campuses. 

By PETER D’AURIA

A Department for Children and Families official said that a planned Vergennes residential youth facility will not include space for older teens, backtracking on earlier plans to expand the campus. 

By IZZY WAGNER

The Vermont Department of Public Safety has hired Lisa Milot as the first director of its Division of Animal Welfare, the department announced in a press release on Monday. 

By GRETA SOLSAA

After decades of deferred maintenance, the 306-foot Bennington Battle Monument, with its stone sodden in approximately 66,000 gallons of water, is in desperate need of restoration work.

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.