VTDigger
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Vt. surgeon builds better chair for active sitting
A Colchester doctor and his son are hoping to change the way people sit.
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New laws will invest $45M into housing
Gov. Phil Scott signed two key pieces of legislation Tuesday meant to address the state’s housing crisis.
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Scott vetoes Act 250 update
Phil Scott has vetoed a bill that would have updated Act 250, Vermont’s broad land use and development law, over concerns that it would impede efforts to alleviate…
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Area man facing multiple charges
A Leicester man has pleaded not guilty to a slew of criminal charges after police said he threatened to kill two adults and two children who were related…
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Gov. Scott vetoes climate change bill
Gov. Phil Scott on Friday vetoed the clean heat standard, which is widely viewed as the largest climate change bill of the session.
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State police investigate Sheriff Newton
The chief criminal investigator for the Vermont State Police said his agency is investigating a reported “domestic disturbance” at the Middlebury home of Addison County Sheriff Peter Newton…
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House lawmakers finish draft budget
Lawmakers on the Vermont House’s powerful budget-writing committee finished their draft of a roughly $8 billion state budget late Friday night, voting 10-0 on a spending blueprint that…
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Sianay Chase Clifford running for U.S. House seat
A former aide to U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., announced Tuesday she is jumping into the hotly contested race for Vermont’s sole congressional seat and hoping to win…
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Vt. shifts to providing antigen tests at state sites
Vermont plans to begin providing at-home antigen tests for COVID-19 at state-run testing sites, rather than PCR tests, officials said at a press conference Tuesday.
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Starksboro’s Cochran-Siegle wins silver medal
On Feb. 8, Vermont skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle won Olympic silver in the super-G at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.
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Changes would limit lawsuits against farms
Legislators in the state’s Senate Committee on Agriculture are discussing a bill that would limit the types of nuisance suits property owners can bring against farms.
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COVID deadly in Vermont in January
January 2022 was the second-deadliest month of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the Vermont Department of Health.
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End-of-life law could be updated
Before he died, VTDigger spoke with Willem Jewett about the law he worked on while in the Legislature.
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Pay farmers not to pollute the waterways
Vermont farmers who are working to reduce phosphorus pollution from their fields into local water bodies will soon be eligible for a new kind of compensation.
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Are antigen tests OK to use in cold weather?
With about 350,000 at-home antigen tests on their way to Vermonters’ mailboxes, readers wrote to VTDigger to ask how the antigen tests would hold up if left for…
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Court criticizes Corrections on furlough procedures
The Vermont Supreme Court slammed the state Department of Corrections this month over its handling of furlough cases, calling the system close to a “procedural mockery” and demanding…