A natural gas pipeline in Addison County is attracting attention of property owners along the proposed route. And it's not Vermont Gas's proposal to extend its pipeline south to Middlebury. A Montpelier-based company wants to build a bio-methane gas production facility at a farm in Salisbury and then build a pipeline to send that gas to Middlebury College.

A popular recreation center in Derby closed its doors earlier this week. The Indoor Recreation Center of Orleans County, known as IROC, shut down after a long effort to save it from foreclosure.

It was the kind of prison break you'd expect to see in a Hollywood action flick, but this one was all too real. Two men hijacked a helicopter and made the pilot fly over St. Jerome prison in Quebec. One lowered rope later, two inmates climbed up and escaped the prison.

A public space in what's known as the River Garden in Brattleboro is in danger of closing. The building is owned by a business group that's been funding and keeping it open the past few years, but the group Building a Better Brattleboro removed the money from their proposed 2014 budget.

On Town Meeting Day, two Select Board members were replaced with new members in a vote that came just hours after the Select Board, including two of the members ousted from their jobs, voted to hire a new town manager to replace Ralph Nelson, who was fired last year.

The downtown of Springfield continues to recover after a fire hit the Ellis block in 2008. The building contained apartments as well as the movie theater. Now the Select Board is taking measures to help the operators of the theater.

For this week's Friday Regional Report we turn to the city of Newport, which is home to the state's only mobile methadone clinic. And that mobile clinic may become a thing of the past, after security concerns were raised following a robbery in January.

People in Bennington have been talking about a teacher at the local high school because of safety concerns. The teacher surrendered a semi-automatic rifle to police late last year and then he posted Internet messages that alarmed some in the community.

WhistlePig Farm in Shoreham has stirred controversy over plans to expand its distillery.

Governor Peter Shumlin was in the Northeast Kingdom this week making another economic announcement. No, it wasn't about Jay Peak this time. Instead, the governor announced that a developer has signed a lease to bring a Wal-Mart to Derby.

Both the state of Vermont and the Rockingham Free Public Library are having problems with a Keene, New Hampshire construction company.

At a ceremony that included poetry and music at the New Hampshire state house yesterday, the Granite State inaugurated a new governor who's no newcomer to politics, Democrat Maggie Hassan.

Vermont's Veteran's Home in Bennington was already facing problems stemming from deficiencies in its quality of care identified after state inspections last spring.

Dartmouth College announced a new president to replace Jim Yong Kim, who left earlier this year to become president of the World Bank.

Difficult discussions are underway once again between the Burlington School district and the families of immigrant and refugee students.

Vermont understandably gets the lion's share of attention when the devastation wrought by Tropical Storm Irene is discussed. But for New York State's North Country region, there was also extensive storm damage, and big bills left behind for repairs. VPR's Mitch Wertlieb talks with Kim Smith Dedam, of the Press Republican.

A planned Rutland County wind development suffered a setback this week when two landowners whose cooperation is critical to the project spoke out against it.  

One of Burlington's success stories has been its efforts to revitalize the waterfront. But the former Moran Power Plant has sat vacant at the northern end of the waterfront since 1986. Plans have been hatched to find a use for the building, but the most recent effort was rejected by newly-elected mayor Miro Weinberger.

In the town of Derby, right near the Canadian border, that debate over wind power has spilled over into angry words, allegations of slander and defamation, and a possible lawsuit.

For the past 16 weeks students and government officials in Quebec have been wrangling over a decision to raise the tuition paid by university students.  This week, talks between the student movement and the Quebec government have been taking place in Quebec City, in an effort to calm the unrest. Those talks broke off on Thursday.

Some of the state's poultry, fruit and vegetable farmers are finding it harder to get seasonal workers this year. That's because of changes to the H2A guest visa program.

In Burlington, a group of students and parents have been meeting with school district officials saying not enough is being done to deal with racism and unequal treatment in the schools.

Two of the officers involved in a discrimination suit are no longer Rutland police officers. Police officials are tight-lipped about what actually happened, raising questions about the transparency of the way the police do business in Rutland.

Tomorrow will mark the closure of a McGirr Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center, after the facility had a dispute with regulators. 30 patients will be re-located and 32 employees will be out of work.

The city held an election in Ward 5, a follow up to an earlier election, to put an end to a disputed Town Meeting Day result. In the end Ryan Doyle defeated incumbent Joe Luneau for a seat on the City Council, a result that backed up the first balloting.