Montpelier News

A Montpelier Energy Team official says the pounding rains this week are not affecting the 96 tons of bagged wood pellets piled under blue tarps at the high school tennis courts.

A Montpelier Energy Team official says the pounding rains this week are not affecting the 96 tons of bagged wood pellets piled under blue tarps at the high school tennis courts.

MONTPELIER - Efforts to get a Jessica's Law passed in Vermont calling for a mandatory 25-year minimum sentence for some sex offenders are drawing widespread support, with thousands of residents signing ...

MONTPELIER -- Secretary of State Deb Markowitz today announced her campaign for re-election. "Since 1999, I have been proud to serve the citizens of Vermont as Secretary of State.

It's all in the family in Montpelier, with three Democrats running for the city's two seats in the State House of Representatives.

MONTPELIER -- A standoff between legislative leaders and Gov. Jim Douglas made it unlikely lawmakers would return for a special session in response to the death of a 12-year-old girl and the arrest of a ...

Charlotte Karr has been involved with the city's senior center for a long time, watching it grow and thrive.

MONTPELIER - Governor Jim Douglas today said Vermont's students and teachers would receive free access to some of the world's most powerful design and mechanical engineering software as part of the Real World ...

Shoppers and merchants tangoed in a mad flurry of buying and selling as each took advantage of the tax-free weekend.

Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie endorsed a slate of reforms to the state's sex offender laws Monday morning and called on Gov.

MONTPELIER - Some restaurants in the Montpelier area say they don't know what they're going to do with food scraps if the Vermont Compost Co., closes as it has been ordered to do.

The Dark Knight premiered in Montpelier Saturday, days before its general release.

A Montpelier teen died Tuesday night in a dirt bike accident. Police say 17-year-old Malik Hunter lost control of his bike on a curve on Herring Brooke Road in Moretown.

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Ben & Jerry's has done it again: Hoping to honour rocker Elton John before his first Vermont performance, Vermont's crazy-cool confectioner has whipped up a flavour just for him - "Goodbye ...

It's official. Incumbent Republican State Representative Judith Livingston will be seeking reelection this year in what will be her first contested race in close to a decade.

New Hampshire authorities who set out to rescue one injured hiker ended up helping three others along the way.

Many of those pesky weeds you have been plucking from the garden may contain more nutrients than the vegetables being cultivated.

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Reversing what it said last week, the state Department of Corrections now says it recommended the release from probation of a convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping 12-year-old Brooke ...

A 24-hour "bio blitz" aimed at cataloguing the living things in Vermont's capital is set for Friday, with more than 100 naturalists and volunteers combing fields and streets in an event that's part celebration, ...

Former Rutland state Sen. Wendy Wilton is hoping a grass-roots effort will convince her former colleagues to pass Jessica's Law and other more stringent sex-offender laws in Vermont.