Vermont News

The question Rep. Paul Poirier hears from Vermonters most is, "What the heck are you going to do about these premiums that keep going up and up?" Poirier, a Barre City state representative, has a long memory of health care reform.

The Vermont National Guard wants hunters and other civilians to stay off its firing range.

Auditor Tom Salmon Speaks On Government Transparency and Personal Responsibility Cedar Creek Room, The State House, 1 p.m., November 20, 2009 As Dickens wrote: "It was the best of times.it was the worst of times." This press conference is dedicated to warrior within all of us.

Five Vermont dairy farmers are being asked to provide records proving their workers are legal, federal immigration officials said Friday.

Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on Thursday in announcing a push for Town Meeting Day votes on whether the plant should keep operating past 2012.

More than 700 of Vermont's licensed Emergency Medical Technicians and paramedics are now eligible to serve as vaccinators at public and school clinics across the state, Health Commissioner Wendy Davis announced this week.

Vermont has been ranked the healthiest state in the union, according to an annual report by the United Health Foundation, leaping up three places in the ranking from a year ago.

Ten towns have partnered together in an effort to reduce the overall cost of purchasing items such as diesel fuel, heating oil, paving materials and road salt.

Swine flu has been blamed for a second death in Vermont. State health officials did not identify the victim or when he or she died-- only saying it was an adult with an underlying health condition.

Vermont and New York residents who depend on the closed Lake Champlain bridge traveled to Montpelier on Tuesday to stress the problems caused by the closure.

Vermont had one of the largest increases in the country in the percentage of people using food stamps last year, according to data released this month from the U.S Department of Agriculture.

Premature birth rates in the Pacific Northwest are among the lowest in the nation, but the March of Dimes says that only earns Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska C's on the organization's premature birth report card.

Vermont is struggling through the most difficult times many of us have ever seen.

A small group of Vermonters will take the first steps this week to establish a new political party -- the Working Families Party.

Vermont's Attorney General has sent letters to 22 landlords in Windham and Bennington counties, asking that they prove they are in compliance with the state's lead paint law.

Rifle season in Vermont definitely was off to a wet start Saturday, and whether that meant a good or bad first day seemed to depend on where you were - and, of course, your luck in spotting a buck.

Vermont State Auditor Thomas Salmon has been charged with drunken driving after being pulled over for a traffic infraction, police said Saturday.

If you have an old mercury thermostat, don't throw it away. Recycle it instead. Mercury is a neurotoxin that can build up in the environment, posing a big health threat if people ingest it.

Gov. James Douglas warned that the state faces a difficult budget year for 2010 as he addressed a gathering of mental health advocates Thursday afternoon, but offered no clues as to how the state would fund social services in the future.

Vermont's economy apparently is turning a corner but heading into a slow, painful recovery, state budget officials were told Thursday.