A proposal in Vermont is calling for lowering the legal limit for drivers’ blood alcohol content. The bill, just filed in the state senate, is already drawing responses on both sides of the debate.

A proposal in Vermont would lower the legal limit for drivers’ blood alcohol content. “I want to save lives,” said Sen. Andrew Perchlik, D/P-Washington County, who filed a bill in the Vermont Senate that would lower the level considered too drunk to drive. Perchlik is proposing lowering his state’s blood alcohol content limit from .08% to .05% for most drivers….

Advocates representing undocumented farmworkers living in Vermont cheered a legal settlement with the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, hoping it helps reduce fears that people could be deported if they seek the right to drive. “We look forward to a new day at the Vermont DMV,” said Lia Ernst, an attorney with the ACLU of Vermont who worked on...

A new proposal in Vermont would do away with the concept of lunch money. Instead, if a newly-filed bill becomes law, public schools would provide meals to each and every student, regardless of their ability to pay—making Vermont the first state in the country to do so statewide, according to advocates. “This is an equity issue,” said Anore Horton,...

A Vermont city plans to expand and adapt a program that sought to address the opioid crisis and other social problems.

A lawmaker wants to make cell phone use illegal for anyone in Vermont under 21—or face punishments, such as a cash fine.

A town in Vermont’s Chittenden County is asking its neighbors to keep their eyes out for a distinctive weather vane that was stolen from an elementary school. “It’s devastating that it’s gone,” said first-grade teacher Susan Ayers, talking about what should be sitting on top of a gazebo that watches over Essex Elementary School. The weather vane in the...

A distinctive, weather vane with a deep and somber meaning was stolen from a Vermont elementary school.

Four members of a motorcycle club were arrested by Massachusetts State Police in Brockton, Massachusetts on Friday on unlawful firearm possession charges.

New England’s least-populated state is hoping to grow its workforce in the new year and is willing to pay people to move there to achieve its goal. “Our hope is this is a catalyst,” said Lindsay Kurrle, the secretary of the Vermont Agency of Commerce & Community Development, referring to a new program aimed at encouraging job applicants from...

Each year brings a host of extreme weather to New England, and 2019 was no different. Here’s a look at the Top 5 weather events of the year. #5: SUMMER HAIL STORM Storms dropped hail in many cities and towns during the afternoon of June 29. The biggest reached the size of ping-pong balls, almost 2 inches in diameter, around…

From tornadoes to an early winter start. Here are our top weather stories of 2019.

After a dog was found shot dead outside a Vermont home on Thursday, its owners are now facing numerous charges including animal cruelty, according to state police. Troopers were called to a home on Wilcox Hollow Road in Sandgate where they said a large dog was chained up outside and suffering from two gunshot wounds. Police said the troopers tried…

A dog missing for a month has been reunited with his Vermont family — just in time for Christmas.

A Vermont family that had worried for a month about a missing pet got an early Christmas gift, which they said will make the holiday a lot brighter. “Christmas Day is going to be a very happy day,” beamed dog owner Taylor Wisnowski, looking at her dog, Klark, who she was reunited with this weekend. “It’s definitely one of...

Marlboro College has released documents related to its plan to merge with a college in Boston as a group tries to keep the school open. The information, including financial statements from 2015 through 2019 and tax returns from 2013 to 2017, was released on the school’s website after a group issued a challenge at a community meeting Dec. 14, the…

The top job at Vermont’s largest local police department is being placed in new hands for the third time this week after a scandal involving secret social media accounts prompted the resignation of the Burlington police chief and ended the tenure of his replacement after only a few hours.

Woodstock, Vermont, is cheering the recent reopening of a landmark bridge seven months after a crash caused serious damage. “It’s just a throwback to the past, don’t you think?” Beth Finlayson of the Woodstock Area Chamber of Commerce said of seeing covered bridges while driving around Vermont. “People are just looking for iconic New England places and feelings. And...

Following a costly crash in Woodstock, Vermont, an iconic covered bridge is open again.

A prominent Vermont expert in digital marketing and social media is recommending cities and towns take a close look at social media use by their employees, following an unusual series of job changes at the Burlington Police Department involving bogus online accounts. “Municipalities need to be thinking about this–they really do,” advised Elaine Young, a professor at Champlain College...