Vermont News

Vermonters eligible to get vaccinated against swine flu have four opportunities to do it this week.

Vermont food shelves met the increasing demand for help - barely - but they remain concerned about helping those needing Christmas time help in a state ranked among the nation's hungriest.

Thanks to a successful fundraising effort by the Vermont National Guard Foundation.

Maine and Vermont are moving ahead of other states on regulating pollution in storm water running off roofs and parking lots, which often carries oil and other toxic substances.

In the new report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said 12 percent of Vermont households struggled to get enough food on the table in 2008, and one in 20 Vermonters was "severely hungry," U.S. Rep.

Immigration officials have sent a wave of fear through the dairy industry of Vermont and the Northeast by visiting farms and issuing subpoenas for employment records.

While New York will spend almost $3 million to help businesses affected by the closing of the Lake Champlain Bridge, Vermont officials said none of that money will come to this side of the border.

The question Rep. Paul Poirier hears from Vermonters most is, "What the heck are you going to do about these premiums that keep going up and up?" Poirier, a Barre City state representative, has a long memory of health care reform.

The Vermont National Guard wants hunters and other civilians to stay off its firing range.

Auditor Tom Salmon Speaks On Government Transparency and Personal Responsibility Cedar Creek Room, The State House, 1 p.m., November 20, 2009 As Dickens wrote: "It was the best of times.it was the worst of times." This press conference is dedicated to warrior within all of us.

Five Vermont dairy farmers are being asked to provide records proving their workers are legal, federal immigration officials said Friday.

Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on Thursday in announcing a push for Town Meeting Day votes on whether the plant should keep operating past 2012.

More than 700 of Vermont's licensed Emergency Medical Technicians and paramedics are now eligible to serve as vaccinators at public and school clinics across the state, Health Commissioner Wendy Davis announced this week.

Vermont has been ranked the healthiest state in the union, according to an annual report by the United Health Foundation, leaping up three places in the ranking from a year ago.

Ten towns have partnered together in an effort to reduce the overall cost of purchasing items such as diesel fuel, heating oil, paving materials and road salt.

Swine flu has been blamed for a second death in Vermont. State health officials did not identify the victim or when he or she died-- only saying it was an adult with an underlying health condition.

Vermont and New York residents who depend on the closed Lake Champlain bridge traveled to Montpelier on Tuesday to stress the problems caused by the closure.

Vermont had one of the largest increases in the country in the percentage of people using food stamps last year, according to data released this month from the U.S Department of Agriculture.

Premature birth rates in the Pacific Northwest are among the lowest in the nation, but the March of Dimes says that only earns Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska C's on the organization's premature birth report card.

Vermont is struggling through the most difficult times many of us have ever seen.