Parents and school officials in Vermont say they weren’t told the extent of an accident where a school bus slid off a roadway and was hanging down an embankment. Parents said they were initially told by Moretown Elementary School on Thursday morning that buses had been delayed due to weather and that the kids were safe. A second email...

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday marks a major weekend for New England ski resorts. That includes Vermont, which tends to see four million or more skier and rider visits each season.

Vermont ski resorts are celebrating a turnaround in the weather and snow conditions, just in time for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, which is a major weekend for business. “Winter’s back,” beamed Mike Chait of the Smugglers’ Notch Resort. It’s back after record-high temperatures and rain last weekend did a number on the state’s snowpack and on...

Vermont is reporting a statewide outbreak of hepatitis A, joining 30 other states, including New Hampshire and Massachusetts, that have seen a marked increase in the number of cases, the Vermont Health Department said Thursday. The outbreak was in its early stages, and health officials had been anticipating it based on what’s happened in other states, said Health Commissioner Dr….

A proposal in Vermont would lower the legal limit for drivers’ blood alcohol content. “I want to save lives,” said Sen. Andrew Perchlik, D/P-Washington County, who filed a bill in the Vermont Senate that would lower the level considered too drunk to drive. Perchlik is proposing lowering his state’s blood alcohol content limit from .08% to .05% for most drivers….

Advocates representing undocumented farmworkers living in Vermont cheered a legal settlement with the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, hoping it helps reduce fears that people could be deported if they seek the right to drive. “We look forward to a new day at the Vermont DMV,” said Lia Ernst, an attorney with the ACLU of Vermont who worked on...

Advocates for undocumented migrant farm workers living in Vermont are excited about a new legal settlement with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

A new proposal in Vermont would do away with the concept of lunch money. Instead, if a newly-filed bill becomes law, public schools would provide meals to each and every student, regardless of their ability to pay—making Vermont the first state in the country to do so statewide, according to advocates. “This is an equity issue,” said Anore Horton,...

A new proposal in Vermont would allow public schools to provide meals to every student, regardless of their ability to pay.

The deal to sell Vermont’s Sugarbush ski resort to the Alterra Mountain Company has been completed. In a news release issued Tuesday, Alterra, of Denver, says the purchase increases Alterra’s total year-round mountain destinations to 15 in six states and three Canadian provinces. Sugarbush president Win Smith will remain in that role and will oversee daily operations and plans...

Vermont Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman says he’s running for governor. The Progressive and Democratic politician from Hinesburg formally announced his candidacy Monday on Facebook. Zuckerman says he plans to seek the Democratic nomination and then run a write-in campaign for the Progressive nomination as well. If he wins both nominations, he would appear on the November ballot as a...

After a longtime business in central Vermont’s stoneworking industry was destroyed by fire, its next-door neighbor is now profusely thanking firefighters for their hard work that saved a second property from damage. The La Cross Memorials building on Boynton Street in Barre burned down Saturday, dealing a blow to the city that calls itself “the granite center of the...

Police arrested a man today after multiple, patterned burglaries in downtown Burlington, Vermont.  Lance F. Mason, 49, was a suspect for a number of these incidents. Mason was previously arrested in 2015 and 2017 for several similar burglaries. Mason has multiple previous felony convictions and known to be on escape status with the Department of Corrections. Earlier this fall, he…

A Vermont city plans to expand and adapt a program that sought to address the opioid crisis and other social problems.

The death certificate issued for a woman whose body was found in a Vermont river last year says the manner of her death could not be determined.

A lawmaker wants to make cell phone use illegal for anyone in Vermont under 21—or face punishments, such as a cash fine.

Students from across Vermont headed to the State House in Montpelier Friday, aiming to send lawmakers an urgent message on climate change. “It is an existential threat,” warned Finn Olson, a senior at U-32 High School in Montpelier. “The effects of which we have just begun to feel.” The Vermont Youth Lobby is made up of kids from more than…

An attention-grabbing proposal emerged this week at the Vermont State House, which would make cell phone use illegal for anyone in Vermont under 21—or face punishments, such as a cash fine. However, the bill’s author told NECN and NBC10 Boston he’s not serious about taking away teens’ cell phones. Rather, he wants the bill to make a statement about...

A town in Vermont’s Chittenden County is asking its neighbors to keep their eyes out for a distinctive weather vane that was stolen from an elementary school. “It’s devastating that it’s gone,” said first-grade teacher Susan Ayers, talking about what should be sitting on top of a gazebo that watches over Essex Elementary School. The weather vane in the...

A distinctive, weather vane with a deep and somber meaning was stolen from a Vermont elementary school.