The Vermont Senate Tuesday turns to end-of-life choices. As state senators debate a bill that would give patients with less than six months to live the choice to end their lives with doctor-prescribed drugs, Vermont has emerged as a key battleground in the national debate over the issue.

Gov. Peter Shumlin is staunchly defending his plan to transfer money from the state's Earned Income Tax Credit to fund early childhood education subsidies, hitting the road this week to make his case.

Lawmakers, reporters, lobbyists, and eager constituents are all descending on Montpelier this morning to kick off a new Legislative session. Vermont Edition is there too! We're broadcasting from the Statehouse with political leaders and the reporters who cover them as we look at the work that lies ahead.

Utility executives and their allies are urging the Legislature not to tamper with a merger agreement between the state's two largest power companies.

State senators gave preliminary approval Tuesday morning to a bill that would make the teaching of cardiopulmonary resuscitation mandatory in Vermont.

The Vermont House Friday morning approved issuing a special license plate to raise money for people affected by Tropical Storm Irene.

Vermont Edition broadcasts live from the Statehouse for the lawmakers' first week back in Montpelier.