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No one had published a full accounting of the extraordinary amounts of public money spent on housing since 2020. We pieced it together.

No one had published a full accounting of the extraordinary amounts of public money spent on housing since 2020. We pieced it together.

As the climate warms, scientists are working against the clock to solve a mystery about why the Bicknell's thrush, which travels thousands of miles to raise its young on mountaintops across Vermont and the Northeast, is declining.

Ralph Rockwell talks about a lifetime of rebuilding vehicles, and then we go to a tractor pull, where tractors are pulled, and sandwiches are eaten.

In Chittenden County, the median sale price of a primary home reached $500,000 last year.

A timber rattlesnake was removed from a yard in Grand Isle this summer — far from the only known breeding grounds in Vermont. Experts say it could have hitched a ride to the island in a car or boat.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a powerful conservative law firm that has won several precedent-setting cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, brought the lawsuit on behalf of the Quechee school.

Beyond his endorsements of high-profile candidates, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said he's hoping to encourage younger and working class people to engage in the political process at all levels.

Teresa Youngblut, 21, pleaded not guilty on Friday to new charges, including murder, related to the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont earlier this year. If convicted, Youngblut could be sentenced to death.

A show about turning 50 and recording "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

Randy Leavitt, whose family has been in East Barnard for 10 generations, is building an outhouse with a composting toilet outside the village church. It will be open to the public.

VINE Sanctuary in Springfield specializes in a once-rare form of rehabilitation for roosters rescued from cockfighting and other dangerous situations. The teaching sanctuary also provides haven for cows, geese, sheep, pigeons, turkeys, goats, horses and emus.

The international Poker Power organization teaches women and girls poker-playing strategies that aim to strengthen risk assessment, decision making and financial literacy. Lark McCarron started the first-ever high school Poker Power club.

Daphne Kalmar taught elementary school for over 20 years, and she was one of those teachers — one of the exciting and inspiring ones you never forget.

Operators are proposing big changes for how they run three dams on the Connecticut River.

During the first Trump administration, Muslim families used the library, which sits on the Vermont-Quebec border, to meet loved ones they couldn’t visit in the U.S. because of a travel ban.

Brink spent most of her life in Vermont's Washington County. She first got exposure to Abenaki language and traditions through her grandmother, Elvine Obomsawin Royce, and other relatives, who would make baskets and share family stories.

There’s one league at the Brattleboro Bowl that plays all year round, but you can only join it if you're over age 50.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was eliminated through a bill passed by Congress. Why does it matter?

Wildfires have always affected air quality in New England. But scientists say climate change is changing how they burn and bringing more smoke to the region.

For two decades, Camp Agape has supported kids and families impacted by parental incarceration.