The City's Tree Board is planning to remove a Green Ash tree on Main Street this week because it says many Ash trees will soon be killed by the Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive insect that was found for the first time last year east of the Hudson River.

Montpelier voters have rejected the idea of implementing a local tax on rooms, meals and sales. It appears voters followed the lead of the Capital City's business community, which campaigned heavily against the local option taxes.

The new revenue is supposed to ease the burden on local property taxpayers in Montpelier and help repair the city's crumbling streets and sidewalks. But the tax proposal has outraged many businesses in the Capital City.

Voters in Montpelier on Town Meeting Day next month are going to decide on a change to the city's charter.

On Town Meeting Day, voters in Montpelier will consider proposed tax changes designed to raise revenue. Montpelier's City Council wants to implement a 1 percent local sales tax as well as a 1 percent local rooms, meals and alcohol tax.

It's an age-old tradition for parents to read to their kids at bedtime, but finding children's books with Jewish themes can be a challenge in Vermont. So, many families are turning to the PJ Library, which sends out free children's books devoted to Jewish stories and holidays.

A Montpelier lawyer who served as chairman of the capital city's school board is running for mayor. John Hollar says he's a fiscal conservative, but liberal on social issues.

A Montpelier folk artist who designs and sells t-shirts that read "Eat More Kale" is fighting charges of trademark infringement from a fast-food chain whose slogan is "Eat Mor Chikin." In Vermont, there is precedent in the trademark case.

The city of Montpelier hopes to heat and help power downtown buildings with wood chips.  Could it work for other cities?  Also, a talk with the Danish Ambassador and we visit a Vermont flutemaker.

Montpelier officials were easily re-elected on Tuesday despite a controversy about an overpayment to a contractor.

The City Council in Montpelier this week will consider proposals to move some road work from daytime to nighttime to alleviate major traffic tie-ups.

The threat of downtown flooding in Montpelier is past, at least for now. Cooling temperatures and falling Winooski River water levels have all but eliminated the threat.

City officials in Montpelier are keeping an eye on the Winooski River, where an ice jam west of downtown is raising water levels and fears of flooding.

The city has notified the Vermont Department of Emergency Management and nearby businesses of possible flooding.

In this program: Experts have warned for years that Americans aren't saving enough for retirement, but the unfolding financial crisis gives new urgency to that warning. Also, a 19th century Vermont painter's images of Montpelier. And, a lesson in stacking firewood.

Woodbury College in Montpelier will merge with Champlain College and move its operation to Burlington.

Montpelier schools will open late this year to accommodate construction at the middle school, which is being investigated for possible asbestos contamination.

A 24-hour effort to catalog the living things in Vermont's capital has documented about 1,500 species of animals.

More than 100 naturalists and volunteers will be combing fields and streets tomorrow in Montpelier in an event that's part celebration, part science.

A downtown Montpelier lot that's been eyed for a new multi-modal transit center will be checked for hazardous material chemicals today.