The state plans to charge the school-bus driver accused of driving drunk while transporting the Mount Mansfield Union High School boys hockey team with a felony DUI-third offense, according to papers filed Monday in Vermont District Court in White River Junction.

State officials hailed the Wood Warms program as a model government program, able to do more with less, as they split and stacked Monday alongside students and a work crew from the Department of Corrections.

MONTPELIER -- The U.S. Department of Justice will skip an inspection of the Vermont State Hospital scheduled this month because of sustained progress in treatment and care that the monitors have documented during previous visits.

Waterbury officials have picked a design proposal for two new fire stations and also trimmed the proposed town budget in order to lower the tax rate to where it was last year.

The groundhog has spoken. And it's bad news. Punxsutawney Phil has emerged to see his shadow before chilly revelers in Pennsylvania, meaning winter will last another six weeks.

Officials with the state of Vermont, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center are discussing the possibility of building a secure 16-bed acute-care psychiatric unit at the VA's 64-acre campus that would serve Vermont residents and veterans needing intensive mental health care.

Tom Slayton worries about his brother if Gov. James Douglas' proposed budget cuts are approved.

Prosecutors have decided not to file a charge of assault against a 20-year-old Morrisville man who beat up another man in a Waterbury gas station parking lot last November.

A school bus driver charged with drunken driving while transporting the Mount Mansfield Union High School boys hockey team last weekend has 11 criminal convictions, including a 2003 DUI conviction in the state of Georgia.

Two people were killed Monday in a fiery pre-dawn wreck involving two tanker-trucks carrying milk that closed part of a Vermont interstate for 15 hours, police said.

A 62-year-old Waterbury woman and a truck driver from Fairfield were killed early Monday morning when two milk trucks and a car smashed into each other on Interstate 89 in Montpelier, causing the cabs of both trucks to catch fire.

INCIDENT: Motor Vehicle Collision INCIDENT #: 10-A3-00358 INVESTIGATING TROOPER : Tpr.

A selection of elite Vermont chefs are scheduled to cook at the James Beard House in Manhattan on March 22.

Since the Blue Star Cafe closed its doors in December 2007, downtown Winooski has been without a coffee shop.

The Vermont State Police arrested a 26-year-old Waterbury man on a domestic assault charge Monday for allegedly choking a woman in Williamstown.

Police are seeking information about a burglary in Waterbury in which video games and video game systems were stolen.

While Amtrak ridership around the state increased by roughly 4 percent last year, figures have recently skyrocketed in Brattleboro to 13.3 percent, according to the New England Central Railroad.

With an 18-wheeler behind him and the Statehouse in front, Gov. James Douglas on Wednesday signed into law a measure allowing heavier trucks on Vermont interstates.

Bill Doyle and his Johnson State College students have done it again: They have created a wonderful picture of how Vermonters lived nearly 100 years ago.

The homicide rate in Vermont hit its lowest point in two decades after only four documented cases in 2009.