Montpelier News

These are some of the calls received by the Montpelier Police Department from June 29 - July 7 June 29 Audible alarm sounding on Main Street.

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said Thursday that without a public health insurance option - a federally run program that would be offered in addition to private plans - the health care reform effort now being debated in Washington would not be worth supporting.

The Montpelier Police department said Nicholas W. Kelley, 18, of Barre was arrested Wednesday for sexual assault of a juvenile.

An Environmental Court judge has thrown out a state permit that would have allowed the Montpelier sewage treatment plant to more than double the phosphorus pollution it contributes to Lake Champlain.

A judge has thrown out a permit that would've allowed the Montpelier, Vt., sewage treatment plant to more than double the phosphorus pollution it contributes to Lake Champlain.

A group of six bishops from the Episcopal church plan to push for greater recognition of same-sex marriages at a national gathering of church officials in California.

The Vermont State Employees Association hopes to get hiring priority if the Rutland Regional Medical Center takes on some of the patients from the troubled Vermont State Hospital.

In these articles, which appear several times a year, NECI chefs will introduce a restaurant-style recipe along with the tips and tools you'll need to prepare it at home.

MONTPELIER -- Traffic deaths are down in Vermont so far this year. Thirty-one people have died on Vermont roads through the end of June, compared with an average in the last three years of more than 42 for the same period.

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch is facing the same choice in Washington, D.C., as he did in Montpelier - whether to support a health care plan that will almost certainly fall short of the broader reform he favors.

Driving through the nation's smallest state capital is starting to feel like getting in or out of a big city at rush hour.

Vermont's experience trying to save energy for electric customers and others helped shape a major piece of legislation passed last week by the U.S. House, Rep.

Rep. Peter Welch is scheduled to hold a press conference Monday in Montpelier to discuss the recent passage of an energy bill he hopes will transform Vermont's economy.

MONTPELIER, Vt. - People in the Randolph area say last year's disappearance and death of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett changed people in the community forever.

MONTPELIER - Vermont's senior U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy says he's running for re-election next year.

You know that one place you always want to show off when you have visitors in town? You say "Oh, so and so are going to be here this weekend, we have to take them to such and such place." We've found our place here in Montpelier, and it goes by the name of Three Penny Taproom.

Montpelier Police say there's some counterfeit cash going around town. On Tuesday, police say they recovered several phony $5 bills from local businesses and residents.

A car accident has claimed the life of a 17-year-old Montpelier boy. Vermont State Police say Caidin McKeever died early Tuesday when the Honda Civic he was driving veered off Route 2 in Plainfield and hit a tree.

A fatal car accident this morning in Washington County. State Police say the single-car crash happened shortly after 2 a.m. on Route2/High Street in Plainfield, when a car carrying five people left the road and hit a tree head-on. The driver of the car, 17-year-old Caidin McKeever, of Montpelier, was not wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene.

Saying goodbye is never easy, even in the case where a person or community has had time to digest the impending loss that comes with death.