Nearly every town in Vermont saw homestead tax increases in the new fiscal year, with a few seeing increases over 30%. That’s after a tumultuous school budget voting season, when a third of school budgets failed to pass on the first attempt and the…

Lifelong Vermonter Jill Savage, 45, did not follow the traditional path to an undergraduate degree. She attended Goddard College at 20 and withdrew after three semesters. After working full-time for a little over a decade, she returned in 2011 for a…

On April 8, for the first time in almost 100 years, Vermont will see a total solar eclipse. The moon will completely block out the sun, leaving only the sun's corona — the outermost region of the sun’s atmosphere, named for its crownlike appearance —…

Puedes leer la versión en español aquí. Earlier this month, Greisy Mejia, a Honduran living in the U.S. without legal permission, visited a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement service center in St. Albans with her 9-year-old daughter and infant…

You probably have some old batteries lying around the house. You might even have a drawer full of them. What you may not know is that almost all of them can be recycled — for free — in Vermont. And that program is expanding. Ten years ago, Vermont…

Last week’s heat wave saw the most heat-related emergency room visits of any Vermont heat wave in the past six years. There were about 40 heat-related emergency department visits, representing 0.5% of all visits last week, according to data collected…

Most of Vermont’s forests are made up of what are known as northern hardwood trees, like maple and beech. As you climb to higher elevations, the temperature generally drops. Eventually, it becomes too cold for the northern hardwoods to thrive, and…

This week, the city of Burlington enacted large-scale residential zoning reform. Every residential area in the city has been upzoned — allowing for larger properties with more units. The goal is to fill out the “missing middle” in housing:…

In a packed room at the state capitol in Montpelier, second graders Charles and George Pelton sat at the end of a long table, flanked by legislators on all sides. “I’m gonna talk the whole time and George is gonna do the slides. He doesn’t really…

At Alburgh Dunes State Park, a split rail fence surrounds an unassuming site. Green grass covers a pile of sand, framed by trees a few meters back. But as with many things in nature, this apparently harmonious scene is in fact a battlefield,…

A Buffalo ordinance passed nearly three years ago requires residences or rooms rented to others for short-term stays to be registered with the city and inspected.

To hear it from developers, the Green Code is working as intended: setting guidelines for what should be built, but allowing exceptions to the rules when needed. To others, however,