This morning, the University of Vermont is expected to officially announce its next president. But an unofficial announcement spread on the social media website Twitter last night.

VPR: UVM At A Crossroads

Governor Peter Shumlin says the state will receive a $2.4 million dollar grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for recovery services for survivors of Tropical Storm Irene.

Thirty college students from the Boston area are facing charges after they tried to enter the United States from Canada at the Derby Line, Vermont border crossing with alcohol and drugs in their bags.

Residents and business owners in Waterbury are renewing their call to bring back to town the state workers displaced by Tropical Storm Irene.

Vermont State Police say a tractor trailer with a high load struck the bottom of an overpass, causing damage to a support beam.

Some business owners and residents in the town of Alburgh are upset the only bank in town is due to close at the end of next month.

Officials with the Army Corps of Engineers say a series of flood control projects built decades ago helped save Vermont from tens of millions of dollars in damage during flooding from Tropical Storm Irene last summer.

The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is working to buy 110 acres of Lake Champlain marshland in Colchester that is home to a variety of rare species of fish and plants.

When fire destroyed an historic farmhouse in Woodstock earlier this month, some people wondered if the devastated owners would call it quits. But the Bassett family is not giving up.

Vermont's colleges and universities are seeing their fundraising figures go up or hold steady despite lingering economic worries.

The Vermont State Colleges Board has announced that Joseph Bertolino will be the 15th president of Lyndon State College.

The state of Vermont has appealed the federal court ruling that rejected two state laws designed to force Vermont Yankee to close next month.

Today is the deadline for the first round of home buyout applications under the FEMA Hazard Mitigation program.  Applications for a second round of grants are due in March.

At a debate Thursday night in Burlington, the three candidates running for their next job to be mayor of Vermont's largest city talked about their first job and what they learned from it.

The local economy in Hartford depends heavily on the historic Quechee Bridge, which was ravaged by Tropical Storm Irene, and voters now have to decide whether to repair it, or build a bigger, longer one.

With a little more than three weeks to go before the Burlington mayoral election, the candidates are making their case for receiving a Progressive endorsement.

Shumlin is one of five governors invited by Vice President Joe Biden for the session with Xi Jinping.

The developer of a proposed wood energy plant in Fair Haven has received the air pollution control permit it needs from the state of Vermont.

Vermont State Police say the death of a man whose body was found stuck in a window at the Mad River Glen Ski area in Fayston was unusual, but not suspicious or criminal.

Female prison inmates are to blame for a prank that put the image of a pig in a decal on the doors of some Vermont state police cruisers.

A Manchester, New Hampshire man is facing federal charges of setting fire to a shelter on Vermont's Long Trail.

The health care debate at the Statehouse is taking a partisan turn as the House gets ready to consider the Governor's plan. Republican leaders say the bill is being rushed through the Legislature.  But the Democrats argue the Republicans are trying to "sabotage" health care reform in Vermont.

Scientists say they're seeing small signs of progress in cleaning up Lake Champlain. That's the good news. The bad news is that it will likely take decades to meet pollution reduction targets. And there probably won't be a big infusion of federal dollars to help Vermont achieve those goals.

In Chester, a group of residents is fighting a proposal to build a new retail chain store. The Zaremba Group, which owns property in Chester, has proposed building a 9,100 square-foot Dollar General store on the town's Main Street.

Vermont's adjutant general says the state's Air and Army National Guard units would fare well under proposed Pentagon budget cuts. 

The head of the Vermont State Police says the results of a study found a small racial and ethnic bias in police stops. Colonel Tom L'Esperance says the information shows the police have to look more carefully at what they're doing.

A Shelburne housing project is getting a $1.25 million federal community development block grant.

The shortage of snow in Vermont has harmed the state's winter tourism economy in January and created a dent in state revenues.

Police say that the skull appears to be that of a young female and that trauma to it indicates that she could have been killed.

Newscast: Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012, 5:50 p.m.

Several Vermont energy programs are running out of money. So some lawmakers are looking to a familiar source for new revenues: The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Advocates have also proposed other tax increases to raise money for state weatherization programs

The principal of a Burlington elementary school who was hired after a national search is resigning after less than a year on the job.

Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell is asking the court for more time to respond to a motion filed by Vermont Yankee's owners over legal fees.

Vermont's town leaders are heading to Montpelier for the annual Local Government Day held by the Vermont League of Cities and Towns.

A group of state and private scientists are working on a new plan to increase the population of the spruce grouse in Vermont.

Senator Patrick Leahy is pushing legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

The union that represents Vermont state workers has ratified a new contract that restores a 3 percent pay cut and adds a two percent increase in each of the next two years.