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By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

SOUTH BURLINGTON— The political debate about plans to replace Vermont’s only women’s prison, Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, is marked by calls for reform, fiscal responsibility and abolitionism.But for those who are incarcerated at or work...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

A new dental school and clinic is slated to bring dozens of dental students to Vermont by 2027, thanks in part to an anticipated multi-million dollar earmark from Congress. Over the ensuing two years, the students would finish their training and begin...

By CARLY BERLIN

James and Teala Ouimette began their day at the Harbor Place hotel in Shelburne getting their two daughters off to school. The two girls, ages four and five, both have autism; the younger is nonverbal. Just like each morning, a shuttle picked the...

By EMMA COTTON

A judge has found a family of Panton, Vt., dairy farmers in contempt of court after they failed to stop water from coming out of a drainage system on their farm, washing over their neighbors’ property and flowing into Lake Champlain.Brothers Gerard...

By AUDITI GUHA

Roughly 300 workers at Porter Medical Center ratified their first union contract late Saturday after three months of negotiations.Support staff, licensed practical nurses and technical professionals voted overwhelmingly to join the Vermont chapter of...

By CATHERINE HURLEY

The United States Postal Service now plans to keep some local mail processing operations at its facility in Burlington, the organization announced on Wednesday.The development, part of a USPS operational strategy proposal, comes four months after the...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

Emotions ran high at a legislative hearing Wednesday morning, where lawmakers heard from Vermont’s Department of Corrections, as well as the state employees’ union and correctional officers, themselves, about working conditions in Vermont’s...

By PETER D’AURIA

A consultant is urging the state to make dramatic changes to its health care system, including repurposing inpatient units at four hospitals, consolidating services at others and reforming how and how much facilities are paid for care.If fully...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department no longer guards the doors of the Orange County Courthouse in Chelsea. That responsibility now belongs to the Windsor County Sheriff’s Department.And while state judicial officials have been mum on why, emails...

By ETHAN DEWITT

In 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court erased nearly 50 years of precedent by finding Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and overturning it.This year, a group of Republican lawmakers are hoping the state Supreme...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

A teacher at Twinfield Union School is facing a charge of aggravated disorderly conduct for allegedly using a permanent marker to draw around a student’s throat, according to Vermont State Police.Kathleen Wheelock, 48, of Montpelier, allegedly drew on...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A former state Department for Children and Families employee has been charged with sexually assaulting a youth she was working with when she was employed by the department several years ago.Sonja Herman, 31, of Swanton, pleaded not guilty Thursday in...

By DIANE DERBY

Vermont State Police investigating a report of a “suspicious person” early Sunday morning discovered the bodies of three “deceased victims” at a home on Route 133 in Pawlet, Vt., according to a state police press release on Sunday. Police said they...

By K. FIEGENBAUM

A new multiday mountain bike trail opened this summer in central Vermont — the culmination of almost a decade of work by myriad organizations and volunteers.The ‘Heart of the Greens’ loop runs up to Chittenden Brook Hut in the Green Mountain National...

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese, having spent more than $30 million to settle some 40 priest misconduct lawsuits dating as far back as 1950, faces another wave of court cases alleging more past child sexual abuse. The state’s largest religious...

By PETER D’AURIA

In May, amid pro-Palestinian protests on the University of Vermont’s campus, university administrators suspended a student activist group on what was supposed to be a temporary basis.Four months later, the temporary suspension of the group, UVM’s...

By ALAN KEAYS

CHELSEA — A Royalton police officer is facing criminal charges of domestic violence and has been placed on paid administrative leave from his job. Jakob Oliver, 31, of Woodstock, entered not guilty pleas Monday afternoon in Orange County Superior...

By ERIN PETENKO

A blood-sucking creature that comes at dusk is frightening Vermonters this summer. No, it’s not a vampire. It’s Culiseta melanura — one mosquito species responsible for spreading the eastern equine encephalitis virus, a rare and sometimes fatal...

By AUDITI GUHA

Burlington Bio is a startup that uses biotechnology to turn agricultural byproducts into food ingredients – such as material for lab grown meat or protein powder.When Rachael Floreani, a faculty member at the University of Vermont for 13 years,...

By PETER D’AURIA

More Vermonters are enrolled in the University of Vermont’s incoming first-year class this year, bucking — for the second year in a row — a slow decline in in-state enrollment.UVM administrators said the incoming class of 2028 is projected to include...