1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1094+ words) For generations, air conditioning in Vermont has been treated less as a necessity and more like a luxury. That might be changing. "They don't even look at the forecast," Tony Rowell, owner of Premier Heating and AC in Barre, said…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1411+ words) State lawmakers clamped down on the use of automatic cameras to track vehicles by their license plates years ago, and Vermont police have told the Legislature they no longer use such surveillance. But behind the scenes it was a different…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (984+ words) Standing on a dock at a Lamoille River fishing access last week, Andrea Shortsleeve said that ballooning expenses and high demand are making state land and infrastructure harder and harder to manage. Moments later, Shortsleeve, who is the Vermont Fish…...

1+ mon, 15+ hour ago  (630+ words) Lyman Orton arrived at a local auction six decades ago in hopes of furnishing his first house, only to spy a seemingly simple yet thought-provoking framed landscape. "The whole idea that artists fell in love with the state and then…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (871+ words) The state of Vermont is offering well testing, free water and other support for southern Bennington and Shaftsbury in the wake of research last year that found PFAS contamination in the Bennington area has spread and worsened over time. The…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (774+ words) The Chittenden County state's attorney said Wednesday she will not charge six protesters arrested during a federal immigration raid in South Burlington last month, a decision that state police leaders condemned. State's Attorney Sarah George said in a statement that…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (540+ words) Vermont's effort to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change was tested Monday in a federal courtroom, where the state argued that two lawsuits challenging its groundbreaking 2024 law should be thrown out. In asking a judge…...