Officials at Vermont Technical College say a school competition and a grant from IBM helped reduce the school's electric bill by more than $40,000 in one year.

Help is on the way to rebuild a 140-year-old building damaged by fire in Brattleboro.

In Brattleboro, two dreams have moved closer to reality. One is the dream of restoring the Brooks House, an important downtown building, gutted by fire in 2011. There's also the dream of a downtown college campus that would bring students and jobs to Brattleboro's Main Street.

A committee of the Vermont State Colleges has picked a building in downtown Brattleboro as the site of a new campus for Community College of Vermont and Vermont Technical College.

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be in Randolph Tuesday, touring a dairy farm at Vermont Technical College. She's here to highlight a training program that supports agricultural businesses.

Vermont Technical College, in Randolph, is getting $3.4 million from the U.S. Department of Labor. The money will support training programs in agriculture, food production, waste disposal and energy production.

The Vermont Technical College is going to begin offering a four-year bachelor of science program in aviation called Professional Pilot Technology.

A new biomass project will help heat the Randolph campus of the Vermont Technical College and give students hands-on experience in the growing field of renewable energy.

A group of students from Vermont Technical College recently returned from Costa Rica, visiting as part of a citizen science team who worked with six coffee farmers there, trying to form a cooperative to sell organic coffee.