Rutland News

An initiative that would turn drop wood into jobs for the poor and affordable fuel received a $100,000 helping hand from the state Thursday.

A Rutland man accused of holding a box cutter to another man's throat, threatening to kill him and holding the man hostage was ordered to be held Thursday at the Rutland jail on $50,000 bail.

The match-ups for House contests in Rutland City look like rematches this year. Two of the representative races in the city feature the same competing candidates as they did in 2006.

Two people from Rutland are at the center of a counterfeiting investigation spanning three states, police said Tuesday.

The Chaffee Art Center and Rutland Dismas House will host Rutland's Amateur Photo Contest, Capturing the Heart of Rutland, from Aug.

The Rutland Amateur Photo Contest: Capturing the Heart of Rutland is open to all Rutland residents.

The West Rutland Carving Studio and Sculpture Center will host a workshop titled "Steel Sculpture" instructed by Torin Porter from Aug.

"This tragedy is so profound and offensive that we all have to step back and see what we could do to make our communities safer," says Vermont Corrections Commissioner Rob Hofmann.

Rutland Mayor Christopher Louras will ask the city aldermen on Monday to take their first step toward adopting a new ordinance that would make much of the city off-limits for registered sex offenders to live ...

Relatives of Paul and Pearl Garrow said Friday that the two were inseparable. The couple died within four hours of each other Monday, side-by-side at Haven Health Center in Rutland.

A new proposal in Rutland may make it illegal for sex offenders to live near schools, day cares and city parks.

The federal government announced Tuesday that Addison and Franklin counties are major disaster areas in the wake of last month's flooding and Rutland isn't. That means the state and local governments in the ...

Rutland Mayor Christopher Louras wants to make it illegal for sex offenders to live within 1,000 feet of schools, licensed day care centers and city parks.

A convicted sex offender who allegedly escaped from furlough in Rutland earlier this month answered to a charge in Rutland District Court on Monday.

One after another, politicians are proposing actions to respond to the recent slaying of a 12-year-old girl.

A week after the Rutland Town Select Board authorized a dog accused of killing a sheep and badly injuring a lamb to be picked up and confined, no one has come knocking at the dog owner's door.

Three days after getting stabbed in the chest, a Rutland man was in court facing a felony domestic assault charge.

Four individuals arrested in Rutland County's largest drug sweep in May, were arraigned on drug-related charges in Rutland District Court on Monday.

A Rutland man denied charges last week that he passed more than $700 in bad checks at gas stations in Woodstock.

As fuel oil prices continue to fluctuate, fuel dealers have changed the way they offer prebuy programs to their customers, and in some cases have eliminated the programs altogether.