Killington News

The Killington Planning Commission likes the plan to build a 408-acre ski village with 3,554 housing units at the base of Killington mountain.

Efforts to conserve 1,000 acres abutting the Appalachian Trail are one step closer to success, thanks to $625,000 in federal funds.

A Killington family's home on East Mountain Road was heavily damaged in a fire Sunday afternoon that started in a wall in back of their woodstove.

A two-year-old lawsuit that claims Killington Resort wrongfully cancelled lifetime season passes continues to wind its way slowly through U.S. District Court in Burlington.

Ski season kicks off in Vermont Saturday with the opening of the Killington ski resort.

In a debate that has pit the unemployment benefits of workers against the tax burdens on their employers, lawmakers heard gut-wrenching testimony from both sides Wednesday that will only complicate efforts to reform an unemployment trust fund headed for insolvency before the end of the year.

My husband and I are planning a week-long ski vacation in December. We'll be staying at Ascutney, but we're planning on hitting several resorts in both VT and NH throughout the week.

Vermont ski areas said they will be using fewer workers from abroad this winter because of strong local demand for jobs and new visa policies that make foreign hiring less attractive for the resorts.

Would a venue for arts and entertainment be a worthwhile undertaking for a ski resort town? It's worth a temporary test run, according to Steven Wolff, a consultant for AMS Planning & Research, who is investigating the idea and conducted a feasibility study for Killington for $34,000, the cost offset by a state grant.

The weakened economy has job seekers heading to Vermont's hills -- ski hills, that is.

Judge Thomas Zonay heard about the best and worst aspects of Melvin B. Neisner before sentencing him to more than three months in jail for his role in a motor-vehicle crash and lying about it to police.

THE NEWS IN REVUE, the Emmy Award-winning musical satire troupe, will be in residence at the Killington Grand Resort Hotel this fall, performing an all-new edition of their ever-changing musical revue spoofing the people and places in the day's headlines.

Raymond and Florence Vincent celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary July 16-19 with a surprise celebration given by their family at a chalet they rented in Killington.

The owner of a public water system that supplies drinking water for 180 people and 39 homes in Killington has been fined $12,000 by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources for violating more than a dozen state standards for water monitoring.

While steady rain forced organizers to move the event indoors, it did nothing to dampen the spirits of the sold-out crowd who attended the 14th Annual Killington Brewfest on Saturday afternoon.

A community water system in Killington will pay the state to settle environmental violations.

KILLINGTON, Vermont -- Twenty-two featured breweries from all across New England and the Northeast will be pouring more than 60 craft beer flavors at the 14th Annual Killington Brewfest this Saturday, Oct.

Killington town officials paid $25,000 to the owner of the Fireside Lodge property at 1128 Killington Road late last month to keep the estate off the market, in hopes of gaining taxpayer approval to purchase the land in March.

Police have ruled the death of a 27-year-old Killington Resort employee accidental.

Killington town leaders and local business owners are attempting to salvage the Killington Road Night Shuttle in time for peak season tourism through fundraising, weeks after the Marble Valley Regional Transit District said the line needed more financial support or it would stop running.