Chittenden County News

Voters in the Vermont city of Vergennes have approved the City Council's decision to support a natural gas pipeline project.

It's crunch time for the Christmas tree business in Vermont. "There are three weekends left," Andrea Blaisdell of Paine's Christmas Trees in Morrisville, said last week.

Get ready for Chittenden County traffic delays Wednesday. That's the warning from Vermont transportation officials ahead of lane closures on Interstate 89 southbound over the Winooski River.

Two Chittenden County residents have been linked to selling property reported missing from nearly two dozen residential burglaries in Swanton, Police Chief Leonard Stell said Tuesday.

As T.J. Donovan spoke to a roomful of Chittenden County Democrats last week, he sounded very much like a candidate for political office.

An investigation into a Vermont Liquor Control investigator's time sheet was a retaliatory act by management after it was questioned about the overtime collected by the head of the department's enforcement division, according to a new unfair labor practice charge.

The adoption event - at the Subaru Dealership in South Burlington - was put on with help from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The Wake Robin Singers, led by Director Rufus C. Patrick, helped celebrate the holiday season at the Chittenden County Retired Teachers Association's monthly event.

The Humane Society of Chittenden County & Burlington Subaru are partnering to host an adoption and microchip event "Share the Love" from 12-4 PM.

When Julie Hollenbeck wants chickens for her Shelburne dinner table, she goes straight to the source.

Discussions are underway to settle the case of a Belarus immigrant charged with setting fire to the steeple of a landmark Burlington church, lawyers familiar with the case said Thursday.

Host Intro: The F-35, the Air Force's new, expensive fighter jet, has a new home: Burlington, Vermont.

"We went on vacation in April 2012 and a friend of ours was cat-sitting for us. She let him out and unfortunately we didn't see him again," Michelle Brzoza explained.

Thanksgiving Day marked the start of a season that in many ways is about celebrating our blessings.

A longtime Vermont liquor investigator will face no criminal charges regarding his time sheets, Chittenden County State's Attorney T.J. Donovan says.

Both parties will go to court over the bank's claims that the city still owes more than $33 million in cash and equipment as part of a deal to expand the city-owned telecommunications company.

RUTLAND NATURAL GAS PROJECT. THE BIG PICTURE: VERMONT GAS SYSTEMS WANTS TO SERVE THOUSANDS MORE VERMONTERS WITH A PIPELINE THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY RUN UNDER LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND REACH TICONDEROGA NEW YORK.

Youth and young adult drug abuse treatment programs in Chittenden and Washington counties are in line for a major boost in funding that will allow them to expand their services over the next four years.

Sales are strong, but staff morale took a hit when the team discovered dozens of pieces of brand new jewelry stolen from the safe.

More than two years after a decades-old plan to build a loop road through Burlington's suburbs was scrapped amid environmental concerns, officials gathered Tuesday to announce their unanimous agreement on a series of alternatives.