The federal government has introduced its Secure Communities immigration enforcement policy in Vermont, despite the state's so-called bias-free policing policy.

Vermont State Police have blocked off part of the road leading to the home of a missing St. Johnsbury woman, whose 2-year-old child was found alone in her vehicle a short distance away.

The Vermont Supreme Court says police records that may be linked to the investigation of a crime are not automatically exempt from the state's access to public records law.

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.

Vermont State Police say it's no laughing matter that images of a pig showed up on decals on the side of about 30 of their cruisers, and they say inmates at the Department of Corrections are responsible.

State police say a domestic disturbance today ended with a man shooting himself after police were called to a home in Salisbury.

The arrest of two migrant farmworkers during a routine traffic stop has effected a change in the state's bias-free policing policy, the Governor appointed an advisory panel to look at the state's investment in UVM and gold fever has struck in Central Vermont, again.  

The controversial arrest earlier this year of two migrant farmworkers led state police to revise their "bias-free" policing policy. The updated regulations were released Friday.

Vermont State Police say they have recovered a body in Lake Champlain and they believe it is that of a man who fell out of a boat off Ferrisburgh and disappeared.

Vermont State Police troopers are looking for an armed police impersonator who stopped a woman on Route 15 in Morrisville and assaulted her after ordering her out of her car.

Vermont State Police say DNA tests of blood left at the scene of Bristol burglary helped lead them to a suspect.

The Vermont State Police are stepping up highway patrols heading into the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Lt. John Flannigan says the state police are part of a national campaign to increase seatbelt use.

The Vermont State Police are looking for land to build a new barracks that would combine stations in Rockingham and Brattleboro.

Unionized Vermont State Police troopers will be asked to approve a new contract with the state that includes a 3 percent pay cut.

The Vermont State Police could study the possibility of merging the Shaftsbury and Rutland barracks into one facility.

Vermont's police academy has been rocked by controversy over the past week and questions about what's been going on at the facility are mounting.

Vermont State Police say their investigation continues after a Police Academy supervisor killed himself following the confiscation of his home computer as part of a child pornography investigation.

The executive director of the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council, which manages the Vermont Police Academy, has resigned. R.J. Elrick resigned Thursday, a day after he submitted a resignation letter.

Vermont State Police say a Stowe woman is recovering from a broken wrist and a laceration after she was hit by a town police cruiser while walking near the middle of a local road.

We'll talk with the outgoing head of the Vermont State Police about  efforts to combat drug trafficking and sex crimes, policy changes regarding illegal farm workers in Vermont, and  other issues.