Jack Thurston

After the nation’s longest-serving current U.S. senator announced he would not seek reelection in 2022, one of the very first well-wishers to greet him was one of his former teachers. “I was so happy to be there when he came out,” said Maxine Leary, who hugged Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, moments after his highly-anticipated announcement about his political future....

After serving eight terms in the U.S Senate in Vermont, Patrick Leahy is calling it a career.

Before Jenna Tatro died — yet another loss to the cruelty of opioid use disorder — she had promised her mom and dad that, if she could just get clean, she’d devote her life to improving access to treatment and recovery. So Greg and Dawn Tatro made Jenna’s Promise theirs, starting a nonprofit under that name.

In Portland, Maine, city leaders are reinforcing federal and state recommendations for people to wear masks in indoor public spaces like restaurants and shops.

A New England dairy-famer-turned-Olympian competed in Tokyo today.

The Connecticut River Conservancy offers a way to check E. coli test results from the river and its tributaries.

At Vermont’s famous Billings Farm, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, visitors and staff alike seem to have universally positive reactions to a colorful, returning feature at the destination that educates visitors about rural life. “I light up. I smile,” said David Simmons, the executive director of Billings Farm and Museum, of the landmark’s sunflower house. This...

At Vermont’s famous Billings Farm, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, visitors and staff alike seem to have universally positive reactions to a colorful, returning feature at the destination that educates visitors about rural life.

Gov. Phil Scott of Vermont toured the damage to infrastructure brought on by severe weather earlier this month.

The Silver Fork in Manchester, Vermont, was chosen as the best spot for date night in the country by Tripadvisor.

Amtrak services are returning to Vermont with $1 fares after being closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.

A fire flow performing arts club known as “Burn Club” meets twice a week in Burlington, Vermont.

A cupola, a historic Vermont landmark, was carefully removed from Saint Michael’s College to be restored and reused.

A Middlebury, Vermont church received over half a million dollars in donations to boost area farms and restaurants hit hard by the pandemic.

Many Vermonters got a flashback to winter Thursday, in the form of April Fools’ Day snowfall.

A Vermont woman welcomed Thursday’s news that the U.S. House will move forward with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, because she has a unique connection to the topic. In March of 2017, when the president had only been in office a few months, Susan Ohanian formally urged her neighbors at Charlotte’s annual town meeting to ask Congress...

A Vermont woman welcomed the announcement that the House of Representatives will move forward with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

Parts of southern Vermont could see two feet of snow by the time this week’s slow-moving storm wraps up Tuesday. The towns reporting the highest totals were through the Route 9 corridor and along the Massachusetts border, including Readsboro, Woodford, and Wilmington.

Athletes from around the globe are in Vermont for this weekend’s Women’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup races at Killington Resort—and 40,000 fans or more are expected to descend on Rutland County for the festivities. The racers will compete for points on the World Cup tour, and also for one-of-a-kind trophies crafted by the team at a company famous for...