New Hampshire Public Radio

State-recognized tribes continue to defend legitimacy at Vermont Statehouse event

About 75 people attended a presentation on Wednesday, April 23, where leaders and supporters of Vermont state-recognized tribes defended their legitimacy. The Vermont commission that helped recognize ...
Vermont Business Magazine

State of Vermont’s children briefing highlights growing housing instability

The briefing marked the release of The State of Vermont’s Children: 2025 Year in Review, which provides a snapshot of child and family well-being across the state and Vermont’s 12 regions. This year’s ...
VTDigger

‘Take a look at what’s happened in Vermont’: Challenges to state’s tribal recognition process loomed over Maine legislative debate this year

Clarissa Sabattis, chief of the Houlton Band of Maliseets, foreground, and other leaders of Maine’s tribes are welcomed by lawmakers into the House Chamber on March 16, 2023, at the State House in ...
WAMC

A new curriculum in Vermont schools is about and designed by American Abenaki communities in the state

This month the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs announced an American Abenaki curriculum. The commission leaders say this is the first curriculum for Vermont educators that has been ...
Yahoo

Vermont Has The Only State Capital Without These Popular Fast Food Chains

We live in the age of convenience. As such, there are a handful of establishments we expect to find pretty much anywhere we go. When's the last time you had to hunt down a McDonald's? Well, if you ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Vermont milk gets a clean bill of health

MONTPELIER — Vermont dairy farmers have achieved a critical benchmark from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This winter, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets (VAAFM) began a ...
USA Today

How did gay marriage become legal? Civil unions in this state paved the way 25 years ago.

Vermont became the first state to grant marriage-equivalent rights to same-sex couples through civil unions in 2000. The Vermont Supreme Court's decision in Baker v. Vermont, which prompted the ...
VTDigger

Problems followed some of Vermont’s largest and most troubled nursing homes after state approved new ownership

Some of the most sizable and troubled nursing homes in the state have struggled for much of this year to provide sufficient care under new ownership, logging violations that included a death, injuries ...
Seven Days

Proposals to Amend the Constitution of the State of Vermont

The Vermont General Assembly is proposing voters amend the Constitution of the State of Vermont. Proposal 3 has passed two successive legislative sessions and will appear on the November 2026 ballot ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Vermont Yankee will be '99 percent demolished' by the end of the year

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. VERNON — The demolition of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant will be "99 percent complete" by the end of the year, according to a recent estimate ...
WAMC

Burlington mayor provides updates on citywide safety and health issues

Burlington, Vermont’s mayor held her monthly community health and safety briefing this week to provide updates on the police and fire departments and general public safety issues. Mayor Emma ...