The trend has accelerated since the peak of the pandemic, data shows. More and more people are trekking off-path without being prepared, increasing the danger, say those in the field.

About 75 cows died after a fire broke Jan. 20 and turned a 400-foot-long barn into a pile of rubble and ash. 

RANDOLPH — Students take over the basement in Keenan Hall after sunset nearly every night at Vermont Technical College, posting up in front of computer monitors with rainbow-colored keyboards and headsets.  Sophomore Luc Levesque, a regular, spent a recent weeknight explaining one game he and others come there to grind — first-person shooter Valorant — […]

Vermont continues to see spikes in housing prices with the median home price rising 15% in 2022, according to the Vermont Housing Finance Agency. Communities and state officials alike have spent a lot of time discussing how the growth of short-term rentals in Vermont has contributed to the state’s housing crisis.

More than 130 students came out to Vermont Technical College for the first-ever Youth Chess Day, an informal tournament organized by Bernie Sanders.

Lindsay Aldrich peered into the vat of syrup, getting a noseful of the sweet aroma.  It was a far trip from her home in Burlington to the sugarhouse in Bethel where she and Luke Briccetti now gazed at rows of bottled syrup perched up along the windowsills. But they were excited they’d made it.  They […]

Voters in Brookfield secured a new town clerk, Carol Monness, to follow in the footsteps of Teresa Godfrey, but failed to decide on just one town treasurer—the vote ended in a tie.

Residents in Bethel will tackle articles to authorize $2.5 million in bonds to improve the town’s water system, fill two openings on the selectboard, and decide if the town will move to Australian ballot voting in the following year.

Barnard residents will vote Town Meeting Day on whether the town should use $400,000 from budget surpluses to reduce property taxes and fund road repairs, along with deciding several open spots in the town government.

When Randolph voters hit the ballot box on Town Meeting Day, they will be deciding how to fill four spots on the selectboard and whether to boost the police budget to over $770,000 for the following fiscal year, up 121%.

Before voters on Town Meeting Day say “yes” or “no” to proposed local and education taxes for the coming year, the numbers they see on the agenda go through a labyrinth.