Vermont News

A longtime aide to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy has been named executive director for the federal Farm Service Agency in the state.

About 1,500 Vermont National Guard soldiers will begin departing for Afghanistan later this year in what will be the largest deployment of Green Mountain troops since World War II.

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.

A new report shows that Vermont weighs in as one of the nation's healthiest states.

Tax Commissioner Tom Pelham will leave his current post and become deputy secretary of administration under Neale Lunderville.

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a New Hampshire case dealing with whether states can restrict the use of prescription writing patterns by companies that collect information on the medications that physicians prescribe, a practice known as data mining.

A major climate bill narrowly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last Friday could be a windfall for energy-efficiency efforts in Vermont.

Eight community health centers in Vermont will be sharing nearly $4.9 million in economic stimulus funds.

The Springfield School District is ready to go with a $32 million project to expand two town elementary schools.

A new study warns that poor artifact and archival storage is putting Vermont's cultural heritage at risk.

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch voted in favor of a major climate change bill Friday that features several Vermont initiatives he successfully steered through the committee process.

Cheese-making operations will resume at the state-owned historic Plymouth Cheese Factory in Vermont.

In the wake of Brooke Bennett's death, lawmakers took action and passed new legislation aimed at cracking down on sex offenders.

The state's financial disclosure laws for lawmakers got zero points from a national group that ranks legislatures' accountability to voters.

Historians are banding together to preserve Vermont's past. The group met Wednesday to talk about the results of a new survey looking into the care and condition of the state's artifacts.

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch heard horror stories, advice and criticism during a telephone town hall meeting on health care reform Tuesday, which was attended by more than 5,000 Vermonters.

Vermont's unemployment rate remained steady in May. The rate for May was 7.3 percent.

Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp -- dairy cows' contribution to global warming.

Members of Vermont's small African-American population are celebrating Juneteenth, the day that marks the emancipation of slaves in the United States.