Vermont Agency of Transportation

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.

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

Several dozen people were evacuated when the Missisquoi River overflowed its banks in Swanton, Vermont.

While it was high-stress on the roads, high in the mountains, Vermont skiing and snowboarding areas were celebrating a gift from Mother Nature before the all-important Christmas vacation week.

  There were slide-offs up and down Interstate 89. Rich Kelley of the Vermont State Police said the agency responded to 120 traffic incidents by 3 p.m. Friday.  

A Vermont rescue squad is urging drivers to pull over for emergency vehicles, saying their already stressful jobs can become even more so when they don’t have the room on the roads they need to do their jobs safely.

A blast of snowy weather Tuesday tested Vermonters’ winter driving skills and patience.

State biologists in Vermont are encouraged about new findings from a survey into a struggling wild animal species.