New regulator sees rough time for Vt. health care system

The pressure high health insurances costs are placing on Vermont families and small businesses is the most urgent challenge facing the state’s health care system, Emily Brown said.

The familiar anxieties surrounding Vermont’s summer storms are more intense this year with recent federal funding cuts casting uncertainty over the future of disaster relief programs that have helped Vermont in the past.

I have tried hard to represent our county with high integrity and determination to make necessary changes on affordability, housing, the environment and public safety. All of these continue to be top priorities.

Vermont’s alpine ski areas reported 4.16 million skier visits for the 2024–25 season, an increase of 1.1% over the previous year and 6.2% over the 10-year average.

Few birding experiences rival hearing the haunting call of the loon or seeing them glide by in protected coves on a lake.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department reminds hunters that muzzleloader season antlerless deer permit applications are available on its website until Thursday, July 31.

With the passage of H.454 and major education transformation on the horizon, school boards from Arlington to Canaan are deep in discussion, preparing for what comes next. Decisions made now will shape the future of public education in rural Vermont and co … (read more)

A lot has changed with H.454, Vermont’s major K-12 educational transformation bill, and it will be up for a vote on the Senate floor this week. Sen. Hardy will vote against it.

Eighteen former state senators and state reps. say that none of the sweeping changes to Vermont’s education landscape that are in bill H.454 are necessary.

Many people have questions about how the proposed changes to Vermont’s K-12 school system being debated by the Legislature might impact their kids, school, community, or property taxes. To learn more, join Senator Ruth Hardy for a K-12 Education Community … (read more)

Some of Vermont’s top elected officials converged on Middlebury Saturday to spread a united message during these tumultuous early days of the Trump Administration: The Green Mountain State will safeguard its citizens from the growing threats of reduced fe … (read more)

Vermont farmers are trying to figure out their next steps as they reel from changes to federal agriculture policies in the past three months that were capped this week when U.S. border agents arrested migrant farm workers at a dairy farm in Franklin Count … (read more)

While state government has an information pipeline to D.C. to help it account for cfederal cuts to programs like Medicaid, what about the hundreds of nonprofit organizations in Vermont that rely on federal money that doesn’t filter through state agencies? … (read more)

It takes more than 5,000 elected and appointed municipal officials to make Vermont’s local governments work, with most of these being volunteers.

Vermonters love to talk about supporting local businesses. We love to talk about how we are leaders in human services. Reality for the people providers serve differs greatly from what we allow ourselves to see