Milton News

At first glance, the website looks like the real thing - an announcement, complete with visual simulation, of a multi-turbine wind farm looming large on the waters of Lake Champlain.

Heavy storms batter Vermont wreaking havoc throughout the state. Some received only a sprinkling; other cities and towns got hammered.

Firefighters work at a structure fire on Allen St. in Barre Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

"There are people losing their savings," sighed Joseph Flora of Milton, Vt. "If they get one of these calls, just hang up the phone!" When Flora heard the warning Thursday from Vermont's Attorney General about Jamaica's area code 876, home to what law enforcement described as a sophisticated ring of con artists, the message hit home.

A Vermont Technical College engineering major has created a way to recycle jugs and other plastics into filament to be used with desktop printers.

An opiate addiction helped lead a Milton man to become part of the second-largest embezzlement in Vermont in recent years, he acknowledged as he pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Burlington.

It's being touted as a locally-owned, locally-financed project that is providing jobs for Vermonters in the renewable energy industry, but some local residents say the Georgia Mountain Wind Project is a blight on the landscape that will threaten local wildlife.

Four people are facing federal charges they embezzled more than $500,000 from a Vermont mobile home dealer.

It's a good thing it wasn't too cold outside Wednesday night because thousands of University of Vermont college students were running naked across campus.

It is not unusual to be asked at a job interview, "Where do you want to be in five years?" MILTON, Vt.

House and Senate negotiators had agreed on the dollars and cents in the $5 billion budget bill late Wednesday, but put off shaking hands on the deal until this morning.

School can be tough for kids, especially if you stick out. Alexander Gallagher, better known as Alex, has dwarfism; where growth is slowed and delayed.