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Jack Thurston joined necn and NBC10 Boston as a reporter in our Vermont news bureau in April 2011.

Vermont’s Middlebury College announced it has begun a process to determine whether it should rescind the honorary degree given to Rudy Giuliani, one of President Donald Trump’s top allies.

After last week’s insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, a group of Vermont college students want their school to distance itself from attorney Rudy Giuliani by taking back his honorary degree.

Twenty-two Middlebury College students were “barred from campus” due to “significant COVID-19 conduct violations” this past weekend, the school said. In a Monday message to the campus community, Dean of Students Derek Doucet said the school took “swift action” but he could not share any details of what prompted the school to take the action. “I can tell you that…

Some of Vermont’s best-known colleges have taken steps to reduce the risk of the spread of coronavirus, by minimizing human contact and moving to online learning. The University of Vermont announced Wednesday it is encouraging students not to return to campus after this week’s spring break. “Keeping myself safe,” said UVM student Jamie Kalajian, who is now home in...

Just one COVID-19 case has been acknowledged in Vermont, and communities hope to keep that number from getting bigger.

A college professor who has lived in both Iran and the United States is sharing his perspective on the conflict between the countries, saying he hopes diplomacy can help the countries cool their tensions — well aware that would be a long and rocky process. “We live in a messy world,” observed Ata Anzali, an associate professor of religion at…

A professor who has lived in the U.S. and Iran gives a fresh perspective on the conflict between the two nations.

At the start of the skiing and riding season, trauma physicians from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center are sharing the takeaways from a new study into helmet use among skiers and riders. Dr. Eleah Porter, the study’s lead author, and her colleagues at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s trauma center say helmets can provide a critical buffer against skull fractures and certain spine injuries, but...

Thanksgiving week marks the unofficial kickoff to the busiest part of the ski season and doctors at New Hampshire’s Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have come out with new findings that look into the safety of the sport.

Emotions ran high Thursday at the Vermont State House in Montpelier, when activists voiced their displeasure about what they saw as a lack of action on climate change policies this legislative session.

A Middlebury College chemistry professor whose written exam question asked students to calculate the lethal dose of a poisonous gas used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust has taken a leave of absence. The Vermont college said in a written statement last week that it’s investigating under the terms of its faculty misconduct policy.

Concerns from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign have resurfaced, including claims of sexual harassment from inside his camp. Sanders responded Wednesday on CNN to a New York Times article, with content that some political observers say could haunt Sanders if he seeks the White House in 2020.

Concerns from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign have resurfaced, including claims of sexual harassment from inside his camp.

Tuesday, voters in Vermont go to the polls for the state’s primary elections. On the Republican side, the race for governor has featured extensive discussions of gun rights during the primary campaigns. “It accomplishes nothing to make anyone safer,” argued Keith Stern, a Republican running for Vermont governor, describing the recently-enacted package of gun restrictions in his small state....

Wicked winds created dangerous conditions in parts of Vermont on Monday.

Wind gusts blasted the western slopes of the Green Mountains, toppling trees in some places

Vermont’s Kelly Brush Foundation is partnering with Killington Resort to make safety improvements before this weekend’s World Cup ski races.

A college professor from Vermont who was injured when a campus protest went too far is breaking her public silence, discussing the ugly chapter with C-SPAN in an interview to air this weekend.

A Middlebury College professor who was injured in heated on-campus protests last March speaks out about the incident.