News from Vermont Public

While the Republican incumbent survived the “blue wave” he correctly predicted would crash over Vermont, he will not enjoy the electoral mandate that earned him so much influence in Montpelier during his past two years in office. Voters restored Democratic supermajorities in both chambers of the Legislature.

It's a haunted house, except it's in a barn.

On a picturesque dirt road in Johnson, a cider party is a decidedly uncomplicated good time.

This fall, the local event series "Hollywood, VT" is staging two unique events in Brattleboro. The first is a largely unrehearsed live screenplay reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film The Trouble with Harry. A couple weeks later, they'll screen Hitchcock's film followed by an audience Q&A.

Reporter Erica Heilman spends a day in the woods with horse logger John Smolinsky.

"He thought he kept the universe alone; / For all the voice in answer he could wake / Was but the mocking echo of his own / From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake." For October, Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone delves into The Most of It from the state's first-ever Poet Laureate, Robert Frost.

The bridge connects Lemington, Vermont, with Columbia, New Hampshire. “They’re always there for us, and we’re there for them,” New Hampshire resident Dana Ellingwood Hinkley said.

In this episode of "What Class Are You?" Kaye Phipps talks about why eating the marshmallow right away instead of waiting to get two makes sense in a world where nothing's promised.

Amanda Eldridge talks about growing up very Christian and very poor in this episode of "What Class Are You?"

Erica Heilman has a conversation with Steve Giroux about work ethic and class in this installment of "What Class Are You?"

Darlene Carey took care of her father after her mother died, and it changed her financial life for good.

A jury in Burlington rejected Jason Eaton's insanity defense today and found him guilty of attempting to kill three Palestinian men in 2023.

Maddie Cobb paid off her school debt in 10 years, and spent a lot of nights in the woods.

In late 18th-century New England, flax was a mainstay on families’ farms. Women and children would have spent weeks processing it into linen, then a staple fabric. Every year, Burlington’s Ethan Allen Homestead Museum takes visitors back to this late-summer ritual.

The lack of basic infrastructure like water and sewer lines has impeded housing development in many rural towns across Vermont. But the cancellation of a publicly funded affordable housing project is highly unusual.

A majority of Vermont households — roughly 70% — contain just one or two people. In fact, the average number of people living in each year-round home in Vermont has been on a steady decline for decades.

Hidden Brain: The Perceptions Tour comes to Burlington's Flynn on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. Ahead of the show, host Shankar Vedantam spoke with Vermont Public's Jenn Jarecki about the podcast and the importance of scientific research. Listen to Hidden Brain Saturdays at 2 p.m. and Mondays at 10 p.m. on Vermont Public.

In this month's reading, Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone explores Capitalism by Massachusetts-based poet Dara Barrois/Dixon

Janoo, a 38-year-old economist who previously worked internationally for the United Nations, entered the race in March with virtually no name recognition. She will face incumbent Gov. Phil Scott as he seeks a sixth term in the general election.

Mayor Marc Gwinn is a regular street performer at Montpelier’s “Ramble,” an effort to encourage people to come downtown to experience the city’s business and arts offerings.