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By Bob Kinzel
Senator Patrick Leahy has decided not to include an amendment providing rights to same sex couples in the immigration reform bill because he’s concerned that it could cause a number of senators to vote…
By Scott Neuman
The Boy Scouts of America has agreed for the first time to allow openly gay boys as members, but a vote of the organization's National Council left in…
By Ric Cengeri
Governor Peter Shumlin says that the new law decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana should allow law enforcement to deal with is a more pressing…
By Melody Bodette
State officials are adding up the total damage after heavy storms dumped rain on eastern Chittenden County last night, causing localized flooding.
By Bob Kinzel
Pete Hirschfeld of the Vermont Press Bureau talks with VPR's Bob Kinzel about the future of the Republican Party in Vermont and the steps to end the division…
By Melody Bodette
Green Mountain Power says they’re monitoring water levels at their 32 dams and hydro stations across the state. Heavy rainfall over the last two days…
By Charlotte Albright
More than 200 artisans across Vermont will open their studios to visitors this weekend. It’s the 21st annual tour sponsored by the Vermont Crafts Council.…
Experts Say Time Is Running Out To Fight Spread of Japanese Knotweed
By Mitch Wertlieb and Peter Hirschfeld THE TIMES ARGUS-RUTLAND HERALD
A land sale in East Montpelier is attracting a lot of attention, and it’s because the buyer of the property is Governor Peter Shumlin, and the seller…
#VT Gov. Shumlin meets all afternoon with reporters to make case he was helping neighbor in controversial land deal. #VPRNews #VTPoli
GMP keeping an eye on water levels at hydro dams, especially concerned about the posibility of flooding in Milton. #VPRNews
Today at noon on Vt Ed former #VT Gov Jim Douglas discusses what the Republican Party needs to do to make comeback in Vermont #VPRNews
Tues 5/28/13 Noon & 7 pm Scientists are learning more and more by the minute about the trillions of microbes that live in and on our bodies. These microogranisms play an incredibly important…
A lot of things about grilling can ignite a fight, including the meaning of "barbecue." If you have a charcoal grill, the type of fuel you use is no exception, as many people are likely to discover this…
The Federal Trade Commission is in the early stages of opening an antitrust probe into how Google runs its online display advertising business, according to a report by Bloomberg News, citing sources who…
Media empire News Corp., parent of Fox and The Wall Street Journal, will be cleaved into two businesses starting June 28: a publishing arm and one for entertainment.
Declaring that along 80 percent of his state's shore "you won't notice any difference" if you visit this summer, Gov. Chris Christie used a Friday appearance on NBC-TV's Today show to say New Jersey is…
Memorial Day, a day set aside for remembering those who have died in the service of their country is also, more prosaically, the unofficial beginning of Vermont’s shortest season: summer. And the thought…
Last fall my brother-in-law died unexpectedly when routine knee surgery went terribly wrong. He was healthy, in his fifties with a wife and children in college, a solid career coming to full bloom and…
When I was a little kid in elementary school, I wanted to be a Power Ranger. I even convinced my best-friend Caetano that I was one, explaining to him that the reason I missed so much school was because…
Vermont is an agricultural state, but you don't have to live on a farm to create your own food. My husband, Jedd, and I gave up processed food for a year and it brought us “closer to our food”…
