St. Albans

A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Vermont has led to one person’s death, health officials said Tuesday. The source of the disease, with five cases confirmed, remains unknown, according to the Vermont Department of Health. They said the risk to the general public in St. Albans, where the cases appear to be clustered, is very low. Legionnaires’ disease is a...

A popular event in northwestern Vermont that draws visitors from around the state and beyond is coming back this weekend, though in a scaled-down way. COVID-19 forced the Vermont Maple Festival to take a hiatus last April. According to organizers, events this weekend are aimed at both celebrating the maple industry and reminding people the full tradition will be back…

The event has to be cancelled last spring and is ready to make a full comeback after the pandemic.

A brave group of community members has smashed fundraising goals with weeks left in its effort to raise money for a nonprofit serving at-risk youth in Burlington and St. Albans, Vermont. The Red Hot Chilly Dippers are friends who are taking daily dips into icy Lake Champlain throughout March to raise money and awareness for Spectrum Youth and Family Services….

The “Red Hot Chilly Dippers” take daily swims into Lake Champlain to raise funds for Spectrum Youth and Family Services.

Word has spread swiftly around the small working-class city of St. Albans about looming furloughs at its U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services center, the largest employer in the city that just went through layoffs at its hospital. USCIS has warned that if it doesn’t receive $1.2 billion by Aug. 3, it will be forced to furlough about two-thirds of its…

A former Vermont police officer was in a St. Albans courtroom Monday, pleading not guilty to an assault charge stemming from the way he handled a handcuffed suspect in March. Defense attorney Rebecca Otey entered a not guilty plea on behalf of her client, Jason Lawton, 31, of Cambridge.

A 44-year-old Vermont man was arrested and charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing his roommate early Monday morning, authorities said.

A sap bucket thief has brought a sour note to Vermont’s maple sugaring season. Fred Hopkins tells MyNBC5 that someone took 140 of his sap buckets, a first for him. Hopkins makes award-winning maple syrup at his home in the town of St. Albans and gifts it to friends and family. He says he has since replaced many of the…

Massachusetts State Police say a Maine man struck and killed by his own pickup truck on a highway near Boston may have suffered some kind of medical emergency. Police identified the victim of Sunday afternoon’s accident on Interstate 95 in Canton as 72-year-old Michael Kulas of St. Albans, Maine.

For reasons still under investigation, Massachusetts State Police say a 72-year-old man stopped and exited his 2006 Ford F-150. He was subsequently struck and fatally injured by his truck.

Police in St. Albans, Vermont released new information on two people found dead over the weekend in an apartment home on Lincoln Avenue.

A Vermont man was arrested during a home invasion in St. Albans, Vt. early Sunday morning, according to local police.

A New Hampshire man accused of striking a woman and threatening to kill her with a pair of scissors back in 2016 has been arrested, according to Nashua police.

Investigators say a Vermont man charged with growing marijuana at home told them he wanted to get a jump on the drug’s potential legalization.

Investigators say a Vermont man charged with growing marijuana at home told them he wanted to get a jump on the drug’s potential legalization. 

Police need help identifying suspects accused of distributing $20 bills in St. Albans, Vermont.

Ben & Jerry’s is planning a nearly $31 million expansion of its St. Albans manufacturing facility, a move it says will add 65 more jobs.