The American Red Cross says its January blood supply has dropped dramatically - the first time it's seen such a drop in a decade.

The Red Cross frequently experiences a dropoff in people donating blood in late summer because regular donors are on vacation.

A Vermont Yankee executive says the company will soon reopen negotiations with the state's major utilities for a power contract after 2012; more than 150 people attended an emotional meeting in Rutland last night to decide the future of the Chaffee Art Center;

A new report concludes that Vermont Yankee can operate past it's license; the Winooski River has receded, but officials are still watching an ice jam in Montpelier; Unicel will take over AT &T's Vermont assets in January; more...

Blood supplies across northern New England are precariously low, and the Red Cross hopes for more donors before the Labor Day Weekend.

Lawmakers have agreed to an initiative to restrict the export of cluster bombs that Senator Patrick Leahy has pushed; more...

Communities across the region are still cleaning up from the Nor'easter that blew through over the weekend;

Another Vermont soldier has been killed in Iraq; more...

Vermont's dominant phone company has admitted to Congress that it turned over customer phone records to the government without a warrant; more...

Critics of the Vermont property tax are saying the prebate system may make taxpayers' incomes public knowledge; for the second year in a row, there's a severe shortage of blood supplies in northern New England; the Vermont Public Service Board has rejected the Douglas administration's request to study setting up an all-fuels'' efficiency program; Vermont's first biodiesel mixing terminal is open