Vermont Government News

Last Saturday I joined about 30 people gathered on Brattleboro Common to commemorate the Newtown school massacre six months ago.

Ronald Pitkin, 84, remembers the day in the early 1960s when his brother Belmont got a gash in his leg while the two were cutting firewood.

Vermont police arrested 33 people on drug charges on Wednesday in a sweep aimed at tackling the state's growing heroin and cocaine problem, according to the state police.

In their dedication to promote sustainability in the state of Vermont, the farm families of Cabot Creamery Cooperative are announcing a partnership with the Vermont Mountain Bike Association .

Windham County's agricultural business community got a big boost Tuesday when the latest recipients of the state's Working Lands Enterprise Fund were announced.

The non-profit Vermont Health Co-op that is hoping to offer health insurance through the federal Affordable Care Act is adding new members to its board of directors as part of an effort to get the state's top insurance regulator to reverse a decision she made last month denying the co-op permission to sell insurance to Vermonters.

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The Clean Energy Finance Summit says it's making progress towards more affordable energy.

A same-sex couple's attempt to file joint bankruptcy could end up challenging the Defense of Marriage Act .

If we want to get serious about reducing health care costs we need to focus on prevention.

A little over one month after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when Brattleboro Union High School closed for the day due to threats of violence, Ann Braden went to look for a Vermont gun law organization to work with.

At 28, Chloe Genovart ran the dining room at Per Se, possibly New York's best restaurant.

Immigrant rights activists are celebrating Vermont's new law to give driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants -- an estimated 1,500, mainly Mexicans, who dairy farmers say they need because fewer native Vermonters will work long hours for low pay.

Vermont Health Connect is a new health insurance marketplace, launching October 2013, designed to help you, your family or your small business find, compare and purchase health coverage.

It would be an understatement to say that Vermonters are confused about the details of the new health care exchange that will become operational on Jan. 1, 2014.

For the past twenty years Vermonters have been fed a heavy diet of terrors originally labeled the Menace of Global Warming - then renamed "climate change" after the predicted warming failed to appear.

Campaign for Vermont recently released its latest policy paper "Achieving Accountability: Transforming State Government into a Modern, Transparent 21st Century System."

IBM Corp. announced a round of layoffs today. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin released a statement Wednesday morning responding to news of nationwide layoffs by IBM.

Maine is the newest state to move forward with labeling GMOs. Last week it was Connecticut.

Dodge sold his property to Shumlin and then expressed remorse about it. At the time of the deal, Shumlin says he asked Dodge to get a lawyer, but Dodge did not.