Vermont Agency of Transportation

A town in Vermont’s Chittenden County is breathing a sigh of relief after help from the state will allow it to clear snow from roadways after a massive fire destroyed its normal plow fleet. “It could be a big blow to the town,” worried Justin Gelinas of Charlotte, who was checking out the damage left by Wednesday night’s fire...

Snow plows in the fleet of the Vermont Agency of Transportation visited children at more than 150 schools across the state Wednesday, so the kids could see their school names on the heavy machinery. The plows have been re-named for schools, which are now on the sides of the vehicles — along with creative nicknames for the plows the students…

New England has a natural weatherman, and it is a little fuzzier than you might expect. A Vermont Agency of Transportation staff member found a woolly bear caterpillar in one of the state’s airports. According to folk legend, the creature can predict how severe the winter ahead will be. How? Just look at the creature’s stripes. Here’s what the...

Transportation officials in Vermont long vexed by oversized trucks getting stuck in a craggy mountain pass say they are refocusing their energies on finding a solution to the problem. “If the solution was an easy solution, we probably would’ve done it 10 years ago, or longer,” said Josh Schultz of the Vermont Agency of Transportation. At issue is Vermont’s...

Vermont transportation and public safety officials are frustrated with a problem that just won’t seem to go away: trucks too large for a narrow road but try to make the drive anyway, and end up blocking it.

The southeastern Vermont town of Putney is expecting repairs to take weeks or even longer following damaging storms Thursday night. Meanwhile, residents are being asked to report flood damage. Two inches of rain fell in many southern Vermont communities. Some, including Putney, tallied 4.5 or 5.5 inches in just a few hours, according to regional weather data. In a post…

In Vermont, some communities are cleaning up after a storm caused major damage.

An Addison County community on Friday celebrated the reopening of its downtown and the upcoming arrival of an additional travel option that will connect it and other parts of western Vermont to New York City. That future Amtrak passenger service would not have been possible without a massive construction project digging a new train tunnel through Middlebury that’s taken...

A Massachusetts man is likely feeling more sour than sweet after being charged with assault for throwing a pickle out of his car window, hitting a state employee who was working on the road. Vermont State police said Christoph Herrmannsdoerfer of Williamstown, Massachusetts was driving on Route 7 in Pownal on Monday when he threw a large pickle out of…

A friendly disagreement has emerged between two New England states, following a bold claim from a Vermont official that his state is home to the best fall foliage available on the planet — or anywhere else imaginable, for that matter. “We like to say it’s the ‘world’s best fall foliage,'” said Mike Snyder, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of...

Officials from both the U.S. and Canada gathered on a one-of-a-kind bridge in Vermont Monday to celebrate its reopening. A bridge first opened on the site in 1918, but was destroyed in the 1927 flood, said Joe Flynn, the secretary of the Vermont Agency of Transportation. That bridge was replaced in 1929, he said, and rebuilt again in 1979.

Transportation and public safety officials in Vermont are pleading with the public to pay full attention while driving, especially on a stretch of Interstate 89 that was forced to close for nearly eight hours early Monday due to a nasty crash.

A Vermont covered bridge that suffered extensive damage when a too-large truck drove across it has been reopened to traffic. The Caledonian-Record reports the Miller’s Run Bridge in Lyndon was reopened on Monday after it was inspected by the Vermont Agency of Transportation. The bridge, which was originally built in 1878, was damaged in May when a box truck crossed...

The state of Vermont says it will be working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to verify damage caused by last week’s flooding. Representatives of Vermont Emergency Management and the Vermont Agency of Transportation are expected to meet with FEMA officials Wednesday morning in White River Junction.

Dense snow made a mess of Vermont roadways Tuesday and knocked out power to tens of thousands of residents and businesses. Snow the consistency of mashed potatoes caked trees and sent them crashing into power lines across Vermont Tuesday, leaving the utility Green Mountain Power and others scrambling to restore electricity to people knocked offline.

A significant number of fatal crashes in Vermont involve people not wearing seat belts.

Ahead of another winter wallop, the Vermont Agency of Transportation has just broken a record, secretary Joe Flynn said Wednesday.

Wednesday’s snowfall made for tricky travel, but a boost for ski resorts