Vermont News

The Douglas administration on Friday detailed how it plans to reduce personnel costs by $13.4 million to balance a 2010 fiscal year budget faced with huge declines in revenue.

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said Thursday that without a public health insurance option - a federally run program that would be offered in addition to private plans - the health care reform effort now being debated in Washington would not be worth supporting.

Members of the Vermont National Guard have known for more than a year that a deployment to Afghanistan was looming.

State officials believe they can end the fiscal year without a deficit and avoid dipping into rainy day funds.

A plan to have special sex-crime investigative units covering the entire state by July 1 is behind schedule, but the program is continuing and officials are working to achieve the goal.

If Rutland Regional Medical Center takes on some of the patients from the troubled Vermont State Hospital, the union representing state workers hopes to get first dibs on the jobs there.

Sen. Patrick Leahy calls his Vermont home Drawbridge Farm for the shelter and solace it can offer him from the rigors of life in Washington.

Rescue crews came to the aid of 2 Vermont men who were clinging to a water buoy in the Connecticut River after their canoe capsized.

Vermont's many towns and cities host a variety of Fourth of July entertainment, most involving fireworks, parades, barbecue, live music and field games.

A majority of young people who take the Vermont driver's permit test fail, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

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.