Vermont News

The state's top health official says it's reasonable to assume a radioactive substance leaking from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is getting into the Connecticut River.

Two bills addressing fetal homicide won't be considered by the Vermont Senate this year because neither has strong consensus backing, according to Bennington County Sen.

Vermont College of Fine Arts >> A. Van Jordan is the author of Rise , which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was selected for the Book of the Month Club from the Academy of American Poets.

There's a painting on the chain link fence that surrounds the burned rubble of the Putney General Store.

The Douglas administration has been forced to take a tough line on false statements coming from the owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and on the problems arising from the underground pipes now leaking radioactive tritium into the groundwater in Vernon.

A Democratic gubernatorial candidate called Wednesday for campaign finance reforms that would affect the November election.

President Obama has appointed Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon to serve on the Council of Governors, which deals with matters related to the National Guard and homeland defense.

Vermont nurse Mindy Pariser walked off a plane at Burlington International Airport on Wednesday night and rushed to embrace her waiting 2-year-old daughter and husband.

Research at the University of Vermont received a substantial boost in the current federal budget, with $3.4 million for eight projects that include magnetic resonance imaging and advanced computing.

Gov. Jim Douglas is participating in a White House discussion of energy issues. Douglas will meet with President Obama, other governors, and administration officials on Wednesday afternoon in Washington.

Rutland Police said the case of a man who demanded extra money from tellers at a bank he frequented was not your typical bank robbery.

If the state had carried out a plan to sterilize his grandmother, Don Stevens said Tuesday, he "wouldn't be here." Many Vermonters of mixed French Canadian and Native American heritage, like Stevens' grandmother, as well as poor, rural whites, were placed on a state-sanctioned list of "mental defectives" and degenerates in the 1930s and placed in ...

A dozen Democratic U.S. senators - and Vermont independent Bernard Sanders - spent the weekend at a Miami Beach fundraiser with lobbyists for oil companies and other corporate interest groups who are often the target of the left's criticism, according to Politico, a Washington news Web site.

Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas wants middle income property owners to pay more to support the state's public schools.

The New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, which is opposed to the relicensing of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to shut the plant down until the source of a leak of tritiated water can be found.

Some Vermont lawmakers say its time to apologize for a part of the state's history.

Traffic is again crossing a narrow stretch of southern Lake Champlain, thanks to a temporary ferry service that began operation Monday next to the site of a now-demolished bridge.

State Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca is taking up where his predecessor, Richard Cate, left off.

Voters in at least 15 Vermont towns will be asked whether they support calling on the Legislature to block the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant from operating past 2012.

When the earth began shaking, Roger Peterson knew what was happening but still couldn't believe what he was seeing.