Vermont News

MILTON - Five Vermont teachers, with little meteorological training, launched scientific instruments into the air Friday and came back with a strikingly accurate forecast.

Vermont's utilities and Hydro-Quebec won't make today's deadline for completing a new long-term power-purchase contract, but officials said Friday they are confident a deal is close and an announcement will happen soon.

Free Press Kidz Fit campers Zachary Fantini, 7, of Milton; Ian Jennings, 9, of Milton; and Michael Delancey, 9 of Morrisville, prepare to release a weather balloon in Milton on Friday.

Citing public anger and death threats, lawyers for a man charged with killing his 12-year-old niece say in a new court filing that it's impossible for him to get a fair trial in Vermont.

A total of 321 Vermont high school students are being honored for completing studies at the Governor's Institute of Vermont this summer.

Every parent has employed the old trick of feeding a child with an imaginary incoming airplane.

"Weed dating" participants Josh Schlossberg of East Montpelier and Tracy Husson of Northampton, Mass., get to know each other while weeding leeks at Tunbridge Hill Farm last week.

A local project for the troops has drawn the attention of Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy's office and he'll have a presence at one of the project's fundraisers on Saturday - an event intended to earn money to spread good wishes to all 1,300 Vermont National Guard troops deployed in the global war on terror.

Gubernatorial candidate Susan Bartlett says there are many inventors in Vermont, and she wants the state to help them get their ideas into the marketplace.

'Many people think of 13 as unlucky, 'said Gary Eckhart, president of the Valley Arts Foundation.

School nurses might have to review their head lice policies after a new report recommends that children not be sent home when the tiny bugs show up on their students' heads.

Right now the Air National Guard hangar is mostly empty. That's because the F-16s have been deployed for the summer.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- If you get into the game early, you can make your mark on a lot of things.

Susan Bartlett met with a small audience today at Halvorson's Upstreet Cafe in Burlington, and the message was she A "gets it." She gets the fiscal challenges.

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This week, the Vermont Festival of the Arts begins its 13th year of artistic activities in the month of August.

Two Vermont National Guard members serving in Afghanistan will return to their civilian jobs as correctional officers at the Springfield prison after they get back from overseas.

Post number two in our Zucchini-palooza series!A Vermont is an interesting place to garden.A The tomato and potato blights wreak havoc , slugs and bugs are hungry and prolific, and the cabbage worms make cruciferous veggies impossible really difficult to bring to harvest.A A But one thing is for sure;A the Green Mountains areA a good place to grow ...

The National Weather Service in Burlington, as part of a larger Hurricane Awareness Week across the rest of New England, recognized July 20 as Hurricane Awareness Day in Vermont.

The Vermont Egg Farm Inc. in Highgate Center, recently sold to a group of Canadian investors, will remain at its current size for the time being, an executive for the new owners said Wednesday.