Montpelier News

The historic Taylor Street Bridge, a main gateway into downtown Montpelier, closed to traffic Monday and will remained blocked through October as much of the deck is replaced and the existing steel trusses are refurbished.

The closure of a key bridge that leads to downtown Montpelier could make it harder for people to reach the Vermont Statehouse.

The House of Representatives has created a House resolution honoring former Speaker of the House Timothy J. O'Connor Jr., of Brattleboro.

Share + Feb 5, 2010 9:10 pm US/Eastern DAVE GRAM, Associated Press Writer MONTPELIER, Vt.

MONTPELIER, Vermont - Buffeted by priest sex abuse lawsuits, Vermont's Catholic church says it will sell its headquarters building and a children's camp to raise money for settlements to alleged abuse victims.

The Montpelier Town Meeting Day ballot offers voters a two-way race for mayor, a three-way election for one City Council seat, a blank space where no one is running for auditor, and an unchanged school board.

MONTPELIER -- If the state of Vermont had carried out a plan to sterilize his grandmother, Don Stevens said Tuesday, he 'wouldn't be here.' Many Vermonters of mixed French Canadian and American Indian heritage, like Stevens' grandmother, as well as poor, rural whites, were placed on a state-sanctioned list of 'mental defectives' and degenerates in ...

On a pop-culture site I frequent, there's a commenter who evaluates every movie in terms of "ownage." Translated from the language of video gamers, that basically means beatdowns - or, as an anonymous wordsmith on Urban Dictionary puts it, "the act or state of perpetrating fierce and unholy domination against another." Taken , for instance, is a ...

There are two contested Selectboard races on the Town Meeting Day ballot for voters in East Montpelier.

MONTPELIER - A top official at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant was permanently relieved of his duties and placed on leave, the plant owner's CEO said Tuesday, less than a week after Gov.

Emergency officials in Montpelier have posted on the city Web site a link to allow residents and business owners to monitor water levels at several sites, including Cemetery Curve , at the Langdon Street Bridge, and other sites.

In Washington County, traffic could get a little heavier at the state Capitol. Officials said the historic Taylor Street Bridge in Montpelier will be closed next month through October.

Vermont's state education commissioner plans to release the results of statewide assessment tests today in an appearance at U-32 Junior and Senior High School in East Montpelier.

MONTPELIER, Vermont - Radioactive tritium, a carcinogen discovered in potentially dangerous levels in groundwater at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, now taints at least 27 of America's 104 nuclear reactors-raising concerns about how it is escaping from the aging nuclear plants.

Ruth Young, holding baby, chats at the school built by Moretown-based Kids in Kenya, which seeks to help impoverished children.

Three people seeking one City Council seat for District 2 equals one thing: A lively discussion of the issues and distinct choices for voters on Town Meeting Day.

These are some of the calls received by the Montpelier Police Department from Jan.

At least one Windham County Democrat is ready to step into Peter Shumlin's seat in the Vermont Senate.

An All-American skier from Vermont's Middlebury College has won the last spot on the U.S. Olympic Cross Country Ski Team.

The Vermont Senate is expected to urge quick action on a bill that would ban texting while driving.