Lake Champlain

Vermont State Police are helping to search Lake Champlain for a missing kayaker from Quebec. Police say 79-year-old Laurent Messier, of St-Armand, Quebec, was reported missing by his wife around 8 p.m. Monday. He had left his lakefront home around 2:30 p.m. that day and planned to kayak to Venise-en-Quebec. His empty kayak was spotted by a crew in a…

Record-breaking heat across much of Vermont Wednesday came on the same day the state announced it had no patients in the hospital because of COVID-19. That was the first time that has been true since early March, according to data published Wednesday by the Vermont Department of Health. With the hot weather sending Vermonters to beaches and other spots to…

With record-breaking heat across much of Vermont on Wednesday, Gov. Phil Scott was urging residents to keep their distance on beaches and in other busy summer spots to reduce the risk of the novel coronavirus.

Vermont State Police say crews have found the body of a missing snowmobiler near where a snowmobile was found abandoned along the border between the towns of Swanton and Highgate. Police say the body of 39-year-old Michael Rich, of Swanton, was recovered Tuesday afternoon. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death. He and another snowmobiler had…

Big changes are coming to a prominent business in Burlington, Vermont, ones that visitors to the city’s waterfront may recognize. The cruise ship Spirit of Ethan Allen III, which cruises Lake Champlain from May to October, is getting upgrades aimed at reducing diesel emissions. “The air quality is going to be so much cleaner down at the waterfront,” predicted...

Big changes are coming to Lake Champlain ship the Spirit of Ethan Allen III, which is getting a new engine to improve air quality and reduce emissions that reduce climate change.

A Winooski man has been charged with poaching salmon from a brook near a fish hatchery in Grand Isle. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department says the 41-year-old was charged with two counts of taking fish illegally

The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation says adult zebra mussels have been found in Lake Dunmore in Leicester. The state tested the specimens after an inquiry from the Lake Dunmore Public Access Greeter Program.

As the National Football League season is set to kick off, new research from Harvard University is showing more evidence of the long-term dangers of the game. Certain positions on the field, and the length of a player’s career, may mean greater risk to the brain, according to a study published Friday in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Vermont Friday morning, for what appears to be a short visit—after a trip to Poland was abruptly announced Thursday. Pence landed at the Burlington Airport just before 11 a.m. in a plane bearing no obvious federal insignia. Security was tight as the vice president stepped off the jet. Pence met briefly with a group...

Though Massachusetts legalized recreational marijuana, the drug is still considered a controlled substance by the federal government and is illegal under federal law. “If you’re on the water, then you enter our jurisdiction,” said a crew member on a Coast Guard patrol checking recreational boats on the water

Biologists are trying to figure out why American eels are washing up dead on the shores of northern Lake Champlain. Vermont Public Radio reports at least 15 dead eels have appeared from Swanton south to Milton in the past few weeks.

The body of a second missing kayaker was pulled from Lake Champlain Wednesday, police said, as emergency personnel, public works crews, homeowners, and parks employees dealt with the aftermath of the powerful thunderstorms that contributed to the kayakers’ deaths.

A 73-year-old Vermont woman has died after being pulled from Lake Champlain, and a 73-year-old man is missing. Celine Teeson of Colchester, Vermont, was pulled from the water around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, about 45 minutes after two overturned kayaks were spotted in Malletts Bay, according to police. She was taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center, where she was...

New water tests Monday gave the all clear for the busiest beach in Burlington, Vermont, to reopen after a frustrating weekend when many beach-goers were turned away during an uncomfortable stretch of hot weather.
An explosion of cyanobacteria, often called blue green algae, made North Beach look like someone replaced the water in Lake Champlain with pea soup.

Many in Vermont were frustrated when health concerns over water quality kept them off the beach at Lake Champlain.

Public health and natural resources officials in Vermont say beach closures and the deaths of two dogs underscore the reasons for concern over cyanobacteria, which can be found in water under certain conditions. Monday, the Burlington Parks, Recreation, and Waterfront Department closed the cove at Oakledge Park to swimmers, because of a suspected cyanobacteria bloom. Cyanobacteria blooms are made up...

The only drawbridge connecting Vermont’s Lake Champlain islands is being demolished. WPTZ-TV reports a temporary draw bridge is now in place along U.S. Route 2 providing uninterrupted access from the island of Grand Isle to North Hero.

A tiny predator could cause big trouble for the ecosystem in Lake Champlain—a popular destination for recreation which is shared by Vermont, New York, and Quebec. The fishhook water flea, an invasive crustacean named for its barbed spine, was first spotted in Lake Champlain in 2018. The discovery of thousands of the pests in recent days—in globs attached to boats...

A tiny predator could cause big trouble for the ecosystem in Lake Champlain—a popular destination for recreation which is shared by Vermont, New York, and Quebec. The fishhook water flea, an invasive crustacean named for its barbed spine, was first spotted in Lake Champlain in 2018. The discovery of thousands of the pests in recent days—in globs attached to boats...