Vt Senate considers bill to unmask ICE

Senators in the Judiciary Committee are hashing out a bill that could stop law enforcement officers — including federal agents operating in Vermont — from masking while also weathering a potential lawsuit from the feds.

The budget Gov. Scott proposed to state lawmakers is about 3% larger than the current year.

With lawmakers planning major changes to the state’s education finance system this year, here’s what you need to know.

State health officials say it’s not too late to get a vaccine to protect against the worst impacts of the illness.

Dean is repeating his longtime calls for the Democratic party to seed the grassroots by coordinating and contributing to local and state organizing.

The federal government killed a program that was designed to reduce the cost of electricity for low-income Vermonters by installing millions of dollars’ worth of solar energy across the state.

An estimated 42,000 Vermonters attended last month’s No Kings Day protests, organizers said, making it one of the biggest one-day demonstrations in state history. 

The Vermont Legislature on Monday passed the year’s landmark education reform package, setting in motion years of transformation to the state’s public school and property tax systems.

Vermonters turned out in force around the state Saturday as part of the nationwide “No Kings Day” protests, championing myriad causes but generally united behind opposing President Donald Trump.

Nestled in wooded hills, an old white house sits along a gravel road, patiently awaiting the next writers, artists and musicians to fill its halls with poetry and music.

After a drawn-out day of disagreements and false starts, the Vermont Legislature this past Friday bailed on its plan to wrap up business for the year, failing to come to a deal, at least for now, on this year’s landmark education reform bill.

Those large yellow buoys you may see floating atop Lake Champlain aren’t for monitoring the weather, nor are they for decoration. Instead, they mark the final resting places of centuries-old ships that wrecked on the lakebed.

This year’s landmark education reform bill, H.454, has been passed by the Vermont House and Senate, and this week the two bodies are looking to reconcile difference between the two versions they each OK’d.

The state Department of Public Safety has released audio and video recording of the arrest of Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos on a charge of drunken driving more than a year ago.

The Vermont Supreme Court this month found the owners of a Panton dairy farm in contempt of court for their failure to reduce agricultural runoff produced by their large operation.