Chittenden County News

The five Democratic candidates in the Vermont gubernatorial race met Thursday night to talk about the environment.

A 49-year-old homeless man was arraigned Wednesday in Vermont District Court in Burlington on charges he attempted to force a female massage therapist into engaging in sex acts with him Nov.

The Vermont Board of Education voted yes Tuesday to study a potential merger of two supervisory unions in Chittenden County.

We are going to have a new governor, and I clearly want to be that Governor. I'm on a mission -- not just to get myself elected -- but to work with you and other Vermonters to restore the middle class in this state, and to restore the middle class in this country.

Two events having to do with "consolidation" in public education this week show that the debate boils down to what we gain versus what we give up by joining two or more schools together.

Vermont State Police officials are going to begin collecting racial and ethnic information on people pulled over for traffic violations.

Hundreds attended as members of the Burlington business community were honored Tuesday night by the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce during the 99th annual awards dinner.

A St. Albans woman was found guilty Tuesday night of trying to hire someone in 2007 to murder her estranged husband - a plot to cash in on a lucrative life-insurance policy that wasn't carried out, prosecutors said, only because the woman's overtures were refused.

A UVM student was in court today for allegedly raping a female student off campus.

Robert P. Jones Jr. was properly convicted and sentenced to at least 50 years in prison for beating girlfriend Sarah Genest to death in 2003, and for being a habitual offender, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled.

A 27-year-old Iraq war veteran was arrested early Friday after he walked into the South Burlington Police Department and told officers he had just sexually assaulted a woman, Chittenden County's top prosecutor said.

The cases of two men charged in connection with the death of John Reiss have been moved to Vermont District Court in St.

A man found running without pants on a South Burlington bike path Saturday was charged Wednesday with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious conduct at Vermont District Court in Burlington.

Former State Sen. Matt Dunne is set to announce he'll run for Vermont governor this morning.

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An abundance of local potatoes grown at Scratch N' Earth Farm in Williston need to find homes.

FoodScience Corp. presented a check for $21,581 to the United Way of Chittenden County.

Getting rid of old tires can get expensive, and so a lot of folks took advantage of a free tire day at the Chittenden Solid Waste District.

Much of our downtown's economic vitality and vibrancy can be attributed to the work of United Way of Chittenden County.

An Essex Junction woman accused of stabbing her 16-year-old niece to death last week likely would represent a threat to the community and any person she might live with while facing murder charges, and she is a risk to flee the state, a Chittenden County judge wrote today in ordering the suspect held without bail.