Vermont Government News

Vermont is beautiful in late summer. Just a drive up to Burlington gets me drunk with the rolling greens and golds dotted with reds, pinks and blues.

A petition calling for tougher sex offender laws in the state of Vermont has gathered 600 signatures from the residents of Rensselaer County.

Allison Morse holds an advertisement for the Vermont Yankee power plant during a recent news conference in Montpelier.

The chairman of Vermont's Commission on Native American Affairs is resigning because the state has no mechanism to decide which groups should be recognized by the state as tribes.

Members of the Vermont National Guard have volunteered to help with the possibly disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Gustav.

Members of the Rensselaer County Legislature recently collected nearly 600 signatures in support of efforts to change sex offender laws in Vermont and had planned to submit them this weekend, according to ...

The University of Vermont and state colleges are taking a hit from budget cuts agreed to by lawmakers and the Douglas administration.

Telephone calls to a 211 assistance line run by Vermont's United Way chapters are running at nearly double last year's pace, as more people reach out for help to cope with the high cost of food, fuel and ...

From the Rutland Herald's Census shows decline in Vt. household income : "New U.S. Census Bureau figures indicate Vermont's median household income has been dropping through the middle of this decade[The] ...

A Census report released Tuesday offers a dim picture of Vermont's economy: the state's median household income for 2006-07 dropped by 4.7 percent from 2004-05. That decline is the second largest in the nation ...

As the Democrats prepare to open their national convention in Denver Monday, interest in the presidential race is picking up -- even in Vermont, where most political experts expect Sen.

Buried deep in the pages of the new federal Medicare law passed by the U.S. Congress last month is a piece of good news for senior citizens seeking mental health or substance abuse treatment.

Programs exist to help people with mental illness quit smoking - Bennington Banner KEITH WHITCOMB JR.

Vermont lawmakers and the Douglas administration are working to close a $30 million budget shortfall.

The Vermont Public Interest Research Group said Tuesday it had gathered more than 12,000 signatures on postcards calling for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant to close when its current license expires in 2012.

Democrat for Governor Gaye Symington was joined by Attorney General William Sorrell to announce her 5-Point Plan to protect Vermont communities from sex crimes.

When Vermont lawmakers debate whether the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant should be allowed to extend its license beyond 2012, they might want to avoid the S-word. Safety at nuclear plants is the sole province of ...

State government has done such a lackluster job of protecting water quality in Vermont that the federal government should consider taking the program over unless major changes are made, a group of prominent ...

The state is reviewing its budget to look for ways to save money. Given that the nation is, at best, teetering on the edge of a recession and that the state has had to reduce its expected revenues twice already ...

Protesters carried picket signs and chanted outside a theater showing the new movie "Tropic Thunder," saying the comedy is mean-spirited in how it portrays a character with cognitive disabilities.