Vermont's NPR News Source
By Nina Keck
Vermont has nearly 1,900 cemeteries - some large and well manicured - others, small, tucked-away family plots. They’re the final resting places for luminaries like Ethan Allen, Robert Frost and…
By Mark Memmott and Eyder Peralta
(We're following the news from Oklahoma, where a tornado devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday. Most recent update: 8:40 p.m. ET.)
By Bob Kinzel
Congressman Peter Welch is urging members of Congress to remember the lessons of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan before sending military supplies to opposition…
By Jane Lindholm
The recent report from the Pentagon that estimates nearly 26,000 people were sexually assaulted in the US military last year has been causing a lot of…
By Amy Kolb Noyes
Reduce, reuse, recycle. The Town of Jay has put that motto to work in re-purposing its former town garage. The Jay Planning Commission and Zoning Board…
By John Dillon
A bill allowing terminally ill patients to get medication to end their lives became law on Monday with Gov. Peter Shumlin’s signature.
By The Associated Press
Inmates at the Windsor prison are helping to save bats by building daytime roosting boxes.
By The Associated Press
Police say a woman who wanted to get back at her neighbors for allegedly turning her in to state welfare officials has been charged with attempted murder…
By The Associated Press
A couple charged with killing a St. Johnsbury teacher last year plans to ask for new lawyers.
#VT Congressman Welch urges Congress to take a very cautious approach before arming opposition forces in Syria #VPRNews
PSB Hearing officer says #VT Yankee should get back-up generator. Recommendation may resolve latest VY lawsuit vs. state. #VPRNews #VTPoli
@JimDouglasVT giving keynote @ Green Mountain Business Expo 5/30 @Stoweflake in #Stowe #VT. campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=45g… #PublicPost #VPRNews
Wed 5/22/13 Noon & 7 pm The number patients seeking treatment for heroin and prescription opiates in Vermont has risen significantly over the last few years. And the spin-off effects, like burglary,…
Apple was criticized in a Senate hearing Tuesday for using a complex accounting to minimize the corporate taxes it pays. One key piece of the company's tax strategy: It funnels lots of its profits through…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry heads back to Israel and the West Bank Thursday for more talks on restarting peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. When he was there last month, he walked…
It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames Research…
If you have a savings account you probably already know this: Your money there is losing value to inflation. Yields are so low that returns are not even keeping up with the cost of living.
The day before my first date with the Robie Farm dairy herd, Lee Robie gave me some last words of wisdom. “Don’t wear your best underwear,” he said.
One of the great promises of all of our new technologies was that it would enable people to engage in concrete discussions and sharing of ideas, no matter where they lived. Social media and Web sites…
Harvard professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson is regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists, sociobiologists, and naturalists. An entomologist, he’s the world’s leading authority on ants.…
When the Governor signed the Equal Pay bill into law, I eagerly watched his hand move across the page, thanked him for the commemorative pen and cheered.
