Montpelier News

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.

The companies that own almost half the nation's nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many may sit idle for decades and pose safety and security risks as a result, an Associated Press investigation has found.

As a single mother with a soldier son recently deployed to Afghanistan, Malcolm Matthew already had her worries.

This photo released by the Vermont State Police shows Douglas Shepherd, 23, of Fort Myers, Fla., who has been charged with molesting a 10-year-old Vermont boy.

MONTPELIER, Vt. - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will notify the owners of 26 nuclear plants Friday that they're not saving enough money for dismantling the reactors once they're no longer operating, The Associated Press has learned.

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch wants the country to switch to cheaper crude oil for its emergency oil supply.

Vermont is offering about 1,000 state government workers early retirement to reduce the work force.

By the time Catori Simpson, 4-months-old, is ready to try solid foods, there may be some produce fresh from the garden behind his home at Hebert Farms Apartments.

Vermont's Roman Catholic Diocese is merging elementary schools in Barre and Montpelier into one school in Barre.