Vermont News

The state Department of Public Service has declined to let members of a panel created by the Legislature to do a special audit of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant join an inspection of the plant set for Monday, ...

There's a thin line between legitimate concern and political grandstanding, but we think we are seeing that line crossed in the wake of the violent death of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett.

Archaeologists are wrapping up the first week of a two-week excavation at an upstate historic site that was considered one of the most strategic military outposts in North America.

MONTPELIER - An African-American graduate student was stopped by police 13 times during his one year in Vermont, twice on his first day in the state, the state advisory panel to the U.S. Commission on Civil ...

Gov. James Douglas declared last week's sales tax holiday a success on Tuesday and opened the door to making the two-day retail push an annual Vermont tradition.

The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant was back at 50 percent power late Wednesday afternoon, five days after one of its cooling towers sprung a significant leak forcing the reactor to reduce power.

When tragedy strikes, the natural human response is to help, try to do something to make things better.

President George Bush vetoed federal legislation Tuesday that would have prevented cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, but within hours both the U.S. House and Senate overrode that veto.

The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant remains at less than half its normal power output as state and federal regulators zero in on the cause of a new round of problems with the plant's cooling towers.

A flash flood warning has been issued for parts of northwest Vermont, including the potential for heavy flooding around Bakersfield and Montgomery in Franklin County.

Vermont dairy farmers have a new market for their cows: Argentina. The state recently sold 50 frozen Holstein embryos to the South American country.

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

July 14, 2008 - URMC announced today that it has moved its headquarters, including all operations, administrative and executive positions to Stowe, VT, effective July 14, 2008.

Anthony Pollina says Vermont can raise revenue without raising taxes. Monday morning, the Progressive candidate for Governor announced a plan for a Vermont Credit Card.

Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie says Vermont must crack down on sex offenders, and he's calling on the Legislature to convene in a special session next month to pass new laws that increase prison terms.

At least in the area of faith... Are Vermonters heathens? Not exactly, but they are less religious than people in most other states, according to a national poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public ...

Problems with broken wooden timbers continue to plague Vermont Yankee's cooling towers, as Entergy Nuclear was forced Friday to cut power production in half.

It's construction season in Vermont-- and if you didn't know it-- all you'd have to do is read the electronic billboards... billboards that should have been displaying an Amber Alert when Brooke Bennett went ...

More than 1,200 lucky hunters have won the right to prowl the Vermont wilderness in search of a trophy moose this fall, including at least five veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The new owners of Vermont Tubbs broke their silence Friday with a press release that still left several questions unanswered.