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A Maryland farm rescues horses from a bad situation in Vermont

A Maryland farm rescues horses from a bad situation in Vermont

A Maryland farm rescues horses from a bad situation in Vermont FIREWORKS LATER IN THE EVENING. THANKS DALENCIA WILL LISTEN. GENTLE GIANTS HORSE FARM OUT IN MOUNT AIRY, RECENTLY HAD A HUGE INFLUX OF HORSES COME IN AND THIS WAS A BIG DEAL. THESE ARE...

Governor signs lifesaving bill mandating cardiac emergency response plans in all Vermont schools

Governor signs lifesaving bill mandating cardiac emergency response plans in all Vermont schools

MONTPELIER — Advocates with the American Heart Association, devoted to a world of healthier lives for all, celebrated today as Gov. Phil Scott signed lifesaving legislation. Bill H.480. This is a comprehensive education bill that includes a...

Feds pursuing death penalty in Vermont Border Patrol shooting: Attorneys

Feds pursuing death penalty in Vermont Border Patrol shooting: Attorneys

Federal prosecutors appear to be preparing to seek the death penalty against a woman accused in the January shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Canadian border, and her attorneys are asking a judge to slow down the process. Attorneys...

Attorney General Ford joins call for Supreme Court action on health care provision

Attorney General Ford joins call for Supreme Court action on health care provision

Attorney General Aaron D. Ford | Nevada Attorney General OfficeAttorney General Aaron D. Ford | Nevada Attorney General Office Carson City, NV — Attorney General Aaron D. Ford has joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in submitting an amicus...

Nationwide injunction halts cuts to medical research funding

Nationwide injunction halts cuts to medical research funding

Attorney General Aaron D. Ford | Nevada Attorney General OfficeAttorney General Aaron D. Ford | Nevada Attorney General Office Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford, along with a coalition of 21 other attorneys general, has secured a nationwide...

What is the UVM Health Network doing to address long wait times?

What is the UVM Health Network doing to address long wait times?

The University of Vermont Health Network (UVMHN) has added 18 new medical professionals across various specialties in Vermont and northern New York. The new hires include physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and a certified...

Mapped: Measles Cases by State in 2025

Mapped: Measles Cases by State in 2025

See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Mapped: Measles Cases by State in 2025 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts...

Springfield Hospital, nurses reach agreement on contract extension

Springfield Hospital, nurses reach agreement on contract extension

Springfield Hospital, one of the Vermont town's largest employers, sits on a hill overlooking the town Friday, March 29, 2019. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send...

The surprising shifts climate change is bringing to Vermont farms: rice paddies, peaches and saffron

The surprising shifts climate change is bringing to Vermont farms: rice paddies, peaches and saffron

Newbury farmer Jette Mandl-Abramson holds a mason jar of cured saffron in 2025. File photo by Spencer Robb/CNS Maeve Fairfax is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling...

Chen: SOS for public health in Vermont

Chen: SOS for public health in Vermont

We Vermonters pride ourselves on Vermont’s being one of the healthiest states in the country. In 2024, Vermont ranked second in the widely respected United Health Foundation’s rankings and, in recent years, has been among the top five. Our...

Commentary | Harry Chen: SOS for Public Health in Vermont

Commentary | Harry Chen: SOS for Public Health in Vermont

We Vermonters pride ourselves on Vermont’s being one of the healthiest states in the country. In 2024, Vermont ranked second in the widely respected United Health Foundation’s rankings and in recent years has been among the top five. Our rankings...

Is that smoke? See air quality map amid unhealthy air concerns.

Is that smoke? See air quality map amid unhealthy air concerns.

NEW YORK CITY − Wildfire smoke wafted from Canada to create unhealthy air quality levels across the Northeast on July 26. State officials from Maine to New York issued alerts for fine particulate matter, a toxic byproduct of wildfires that is...

Internal communications reveal Vermont prisons’ frustrations working with ICE

Internal communications reveal Vermont prisons’ frustrations working with ICE

Greg Hale didn’t understand why border patrol officers from Maine were showing up at the prison he oversees in St. Albans town. He was used to federal immigration authorities bringing detainees in from Vermont’s northern border. But this signaled...

A week with Vermont Green: Inside the plan to build a destination for women’s soccer

A week with Vermont Green: Inside the plan to build a destination for women’s soccer

Violet Rademacher of Vermont Green scores a header from distance during the women’s team’s victory over Flower City Union on June 11. Video by Busy Anderson/CNS Busy Anderson is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of...

Geoengineered Transhumanism: Above & Beyond Chemtrails, HAARP & the Space Fence

Geoengineered Transhumanism: Above & Beyond Chemtrails, HAARP & the Space Fence

While Elana Freeland is widely known for her books related to geoengineering, in order to understand her orientation to that research, it is important to recognise that she is also the author of a four-volume work entitled Sub Rosa America: A Deep...

Missteps with evidence bring dispute over murder trial to Supreme Court 

Missteps with evidence bring dispute over murder trial to Supreme Court 

The Vermont Superior Courthouse in Bennington. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger The Vermont Supreme Court is set to decide whether the case against Deven Moffitt, accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend, has been too mishandled to see trial. For...

Man admits to concealing evidence in 2023 killings of men from Pittsfield and Chicopee in Vermont

Man admits to concealing evidence in 2023 killings of men from Pittsfield and Chicopee in Vermont

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A man has admitted that he failed to report the 2023 fatal shootings of two men from Pittsfield and Chicopee and concealed evidence, court records say. Dilan D. Jiron, 28, has signed a plea agreement in which he said he aided the...

‘Consummate fixer’ convicted for EB-5 fraud in Vermont seeks to end supervised release early

‘Consummate fixer’ convicted for EB-5 fraud in Vermont seeks to end supervised release early

William Kelly pictured in a file photo from May 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A Florida man who served his prison sentence handed down more than three years ago for his role in the EB-5 fraud that rocked Vermont is now seeking to shorten...

Nearly $17M in federal money headed back to Vermont schools

Nearly $17M in federal money headed back to Vermont schools

Kindergarten students at Flynn Elementary School on Aug. 31, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont schools are slated to receive $17 million in federal Covid-19 funds that were canceled by the Trump administration in March. The U.S....

Reconciliation Language Could Lead To Cuts in Medicaid State-Directed Payments to Hospitals and Nursing Facilities

Reconciliation Language Could Lead To Cuts in Medicaid State-Directed Payments to Hospitals and Nursing Facilities

On May 22, the House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 billion over 10 years. Almost 10% of those savings came from a provision that would...

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