Vermont News

Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on Thursday in announcing a push for Town Meeting Day votes on whether the plant should keep operating past 2012.

More than 700 of Vermont's licensed Emergency Medical Technicians and paramedics are now eligible to serve as vaccinators at public and school clinics across the state, Health Commissioner Wendy Davis announced this week.

Vermont has been ranked the healthiest state in the union, according to an annual report by the United Health Foundation, leaping up three places in the ranking from a year ago.

Ten towns have partnered together in an effort to reduce the overall cost of purchasing items such as diesel fuel, heating oil, paving materials and road salt.

Swine flu has been blamed for a second death in Vermont. State health officials did not identify the victim or when he or she died-- only saying it was an adult with an underlying health condition.

Vermont and New York residents who depend on the closed Lake Champlain bridge traveled to Montpelier on Tuesday to stress the problems caused by the closure.

Vermont had one of the largest increases in the country in the percentage of people using food stamps last year, according to data released this month from the U.S Department of Agriculture.

Premature birth rates in the Pacific Northwest are among the lowest in the nation, but the March of Dimes says that only earns Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska C's on the organization's premature birth report card.

Vermont is struggling through the most difficult times many of us have ever seen.

A small group of Vermonters will take the first steps this week to establish a new political party -- the Working Families Party.

Vermont's Attorney General has sent letters to 22 landlords in Windham and Bennington counties, asking that they prove they are in compliance with the state's lead paint law.

Rifle season in Vermont definitely was off to a wet start Saturday, and whether that meant a good or bad first day seemed to depend on where you were - and, of course, your luck in spotting a buck.

Vermont State Auditor Thomas Salmon has been charged with drunken driving after being pulled over for a traffic infraction, police said Saturday.

If you have an old mercury thermostat, don't throw it away. Recycle it instead. Mercury is a neurotoxin that can build up in the environment, posing a big health threat if people ingest it.

Gov. James Douglas warned that the state faces a difficult budget year for 2010 as he addressed a gathering of mental health advocates Thursday afternoon, but offered no clues as to how the state would fund social services in the future.

Vermont's economy apparently is turning a corner but heading into a slow, painful recovery, state budget officials were told Thursday.

Vermont state officials are set to get an update on state finances Thursday. The state Emergency Board, made up of legislative money committee chairs and Gov.

Enrollment in Catamount Health and other state insurance plans offered in Vermont has slowed down in recent months, even as interest in these programs during the economic recession has increased.

If you have information, please contact STATE POLICE CRIMINAL DIVISION, 802-875-2112. Sanford, Maine Police and The Maine and Vermont State Police are issuing an Amber Alert for a missing two year old girl who was taken by her father this morning in Sanford after what investigators call a violent assault of the girl's mother.

The Vermont Legislature will consider moving up the date of next year's primary, a move that Gov.