Colchester News

Burlington's New North End used to be reliably conservative. For a time, residents of Wards 4 and 7 elected four Republicans to represent them on the Burlington City Council.

A St. Albans teen will spend at least a couple of years behind bars for a DUI accident that killed his passenger.

Many colleges and universities celebrated with graduations across the country this weekend, but for a newer Vermont institution, May 19 was extra special.

Middlebury College is viewed as one of the greenest academic institutions in the country, but its support for a proposed natural-gas pipeline in Addison County is putting that reputation to the test.

A Vermont man with a long history of threatening public officials and hatching bombing plots could soon be living in a community facility in Vermont for people with serious mental illnesses.

The free and open to the public event takes place Saturday, May 11, 2013, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. This is one of the highlights of the year presented by the Friends of the Hort Farm located at 65 Green Mountain Drive, South Burlington.

Vermont's lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives is going to be talking about the need to reform a federal requirement that most motor fuel contain ethanol.

State police say the accident happened south of Exit 17. Traffic at one point was backed up all the way past the exit.

A teenager charged with crashing his car while drunk and killing his passenger backed out of a plea deal Tuesday.

Cliff Breiner, who for 40 years served as the official scorer for the Saint Michael's College men's basketball team, passed away following an illness on May 4. The official scorer between 1970 and 2010, a decal bearing his name was affixed to the Ross Sports Center gym floor on Dec.

An accused purse-snatcher -- stopped by passers-by in downtown Burlington -- says he didn't do it.

Mixing up another batch of products, Versante in Quechee uses ingredients like sugar, maple syrup and vanilla.

This farmland in Colchester is owned by the Vermont Land Trust. The land trust is allowing so-called "new Americans" to raise goats here to provide meat to the local Immigrant and refugee population.

The string of dry weather continues to exacerbate the threat of wildfires around our region -- including one on Prospect Mountain in Woodford and another in St.

A controlled burn is taking place Friday on a 15-acre section of the Vermont Army National Guard Camp Johnson facility in Colchester.

Saturday is the annual Green Up Day, where volunteers across the state will help pick up roadside litter that has built up over the year.

Gary Francis, the former animal control officer in three Chittenden County towns, faces a criminal citation involving allegations he offered to pay women to show him their breasts during the course of his duties.

Glitz and glamour make up only a small fraction of why Aurianna Quintyne, 5, of Colchester competes in pageants across New England.

The company tasked with "buttoning up" the Rockingham Free Public Library, after a problem with the general contractor brought progress to a halt, has been chosen to complete the renovation project.

Fire crews from New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, worked around the clock Wednesday as dry conditions made it easy for brush fires to start, and spread.