MONTPELIER — Churches will be allowed to hold services with up to 25 percent of the church filled, Gov. Phil Scott announced Friday. As expected, he also announced that restaurants will be able to resume outdoor dining this weekend and salons and barbershops will be able to reopen on Friday,…

ESSEX JUNCTION -- The summer of 2021 was supposed to see the 100th rendition of the Champlain Valley Fair. Instead, it will just be the 99th edition as the Champlain Valley Exposition announced that this year’s fair has been cancelled.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — This year the traditional Memorial Day laying of the wreath ceremony at the Veteran's Administration Healthcare facility in White River Junction will be celebrated virtually.

ESSEX JUNCTION -- With people staying home to avoid the spread of COVID-19, and disruptions in the workforce, Meals on Wheels has experienced a rapid increase in the number of seniors seeking deliveries as their primary source of food.

ST. ALBANS — This weekend is expected to bring the warmest weather we've had so far this year. With Vermonters likely to head outside for all kinds of activities, the Dept. of Health (DOH) wants people to be careful of the heat and to take steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Vermont Student Assistance Corp. has announced it has awarded over $1.4 million in scholarships to graduating high school seniors to continue their education after high school.

During an AARP Vermont telephone town hall, one Vermonter on the call began to choke up as he conveyed the pain of not being able to hold his wife’s hand for the last eight weeks.

ST. ALBANS — The National Guard will be distributing boxes of food to families in need at the North Avenue exit of Vermont Route 127 in Burlington on Tuesday, May 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

MONTPELIER – The Scott administration revealed Wednesday its proposal for a $400 million relief package for shoring up the state’s economy amid the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

BURLINGTON — The University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network has begun scheduling non-urgent and elective outpatient procedures and appointments that do not require a hospital stay, beginning with those that were postponed in preparation for a COVID-19 surge. Timing and types of encounters wi…

WATERBURY — The Department for Children and Families (DCF) is reminding eligible child care and summer day programs to request a Restart Stipend by midnight on Friday, May 22. The Restart Stipends were launched last week to help child care and summer day programs with additional expenses dir…

From Wednesday through Friday, one lane in both north and southbound directions of I-89 between Exits 16 and 17 will be closed for construction.

MONTPELIER — Memorial Day has long served as the unofficial kick-off to yard and garage sale season. Now, the Agency of Commerce and Community Development has clarified that sales are allowed.

MONTPELIER — If Vermont’s COVID-19 cases remain flat, hair salons and barber shops may be allowed to open before June 1, Gov. Phil Scott said Monday.

MONTPELIER — This summer, state officials are hoping Vermonters will consider vacationing within the state.

Vermont’s turtles on are on the move this spring, and the Vt. Fish and Wildlife Department is asking for the public’s help in keeping them safe. Female turtles are looking for places to deposit their eggs, sometimes choosing to lay them along the shoulders of roads, which can bring them into…

The facility in Essex is joining that of Williston as being the only Chittenden Solid Waste District (CWSD) sites currently open for drop off.

MONTPELIER – While his emergency declaration has been extended into June, Gov. Phil Scott confirmed Friday the so-called “spigot” would see another turn as lodging facilities, marinas and campgrounds will be allowed to reopen.

MONTPELIER — The construction project planned to revamp Exit 16 is postponed again, but not due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, the Vermont Supreme Court heard arguments from the Vt. Agency of Transportation (VTrans) and R.L. Vallee, owner of Maplefields gas station chain. The latt…

SOUTH BURLINGTON – Mass testing for COVID-19 at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility (CRCF) has found no new cases among the South Burlington prison’s staff and population after a staff member tested positive for the disease earlier this week.

MONTPELIER – Every year, hundreds of people contact the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about bear interactions, and sometimes about conflicts that are ultimately deadly for the bear.

ST. ALBANS — The combination of low prices and the need to cut production in an effort to bring supply and demand for milk into alignment are cutting dramatically into farmers’ incomes.

MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott began his press conference on Wednesday by addressing an incident in Hartford in which a family that had moved to Vermont from New York a couple of months previous was harassed.

State health officials announced Tuesday that Vermonters who do not have symptoms of COVID-19 can be tested for the virus at one of the pop-up testing sites around the state. Initially, the clinics were only open to essential workers.

ST. ALBANS — One in four Vermonters is now food insecure, according to researchers at the University of Vermont, meaning they have skipped meals or are at risk of doing so because of a lack of access to food.

MONTPELIER — The state has once again taken an unusual step to clear through the backlog in unemployment claims created when 70,000 Vermonters were laid off in roughly one month.

MONTPELIER — The retail sector will be the next portion of the economy allowed to reopen, Gov. Phil Scott announced on Monday.

Deer fawns are being born this time of year and the Vt. Fish and Wildlife Department asks that people avoid disturbing or picking them up.

MONTPELIER – While the state is now preparing for in-person learning to resume in fall, current restrictions on mass gatherings intended to prevent COVID-19’s spread mean traditional graduation ceremonies will likely not be taking place this spring.

MONTPELIER – According to state modeling shared Friday, should Vermont’s reopening continue in moderation and public health guidelines be followed, the state should be able to avoid a summer surge of COVID-19 hospitalization.

MONTPELIER – With COVID-19’s spread through Vermont believed to have peaked, Gov. Phil Scott announced Friday child care centers and summer camps would be the next quarter turns of Vermont's economic “spigot.”

Since the first Vermonter tested positive for COVID-19 in March, more than 900 residents have tested positive for the disease.