Blocked from police work in Vermont, ex-Addison County sheriff faces possible new black mark

A former Addison County sheriff with criminal convictions could land on a national database that flags when someone has lost the certification they need to work as a law enforcement officer.

Aly Richards, who led a lobbying group that won major increases to public child care funding in Vermont during the past decade, announced her bid for governor on Monday.

The U.S. Forest Service announced Thursday it plans to close its research and development office in Burlington as part of a national reorganization.

The unusual, monthslong wait for this year’s federal Community Service Block Grant funds comes amid a push from the Trump administration to eliminate the program from the federal budget.

Winooski’s superintendent told senators in February that the policy was about being prepared for worst-case scenarios.

When law enforcement officials broke down the door of a South Burlington home March 11, they were looking for a Mexican man named Deyvi Daniel Corona-Sanchez. He wasn’t there. In fact, he might never have been. What followed that raid, as well as the dete … (read more)

Despite the fact that millions of Americans have reported living with the disease, there are no clear-cut diagnostic tests. Nor are there treatments with a clear-cut record of success. 

Cristian Humberto Jerez Andrade, 31, has been held since the March 11 raid on a home that triggered an hours-long confrontation, street shutdown and forced entry by federal agents.

Beta Technologies announced Monday that the company had been selected for a federal pilot program that will allow the South Burlington-based electric airplane maker and its partners to begin medical flights to and from Vermont this year.

Vermont is the target of the latest federal probe into Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse.

Frigid temperatures have caused Lake Champlain to fully freeze for the first time since March 2019.

Vermont farmworkers could earn significantly lower wages this year under new federal rules.

New federal work requirements limiting eligibility for the nation’s largest food assistance program will take effect for many in Vermont on March 1.

Balint told VTDigger’s The Vermont Conversation that Trump’s retribution can take many forms.

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