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  • Workers survey the damage on East Burke Road after flash floodsFinance

    Vermont businesses crippled by July flooding and storms: ‘It’s traumatic, it’s unbelievable the extent that it ripples out’

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • Two kids on a roof look at a flooded downtownEnvironment

    ‘The crop has just melted into the ground’: Vermont’s farmers are desperate after 2 consecutive years of flooding

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • flooded Vermont streetEnvironment

    Vermont becomes first state to make oil companies pay for climate-change damage after Republican governor doesn’t veto bill

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • Vermont policePolitics

    Mother who called police on her own son for shoplifting shocked, appalled by use of ‘unprovoked violence and use of force’

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • New England leaf peepingSuccess

    Instagram ruined leaf-peeping so badly on Vermont’s most beautiful dirt road that it’s now closed through the end of foliage season

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • Susanna GellertEnvironment

    How Vermont’s oldest professional theater company survived a flood, a $450,000 rehab project and put on ‘Singin’ in the Rain’

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • David ZuckermanPolitics

    The most Vermont-ish possible response to a book-banning controversy is under way: A reading tour at local libraries and bookstores

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • Vermont schoolEnvironment

    Over 90 Vermont school districts hit Monsanto with a lawsuit over toxic contamination of education buildings

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The water park at Jay Peak resort in Jay, Vt., April 18, 2016. The state of Vermont has agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle all pending and potential lawsuits from foreign investors in development projects at the Jay Peak resort, the ski area that was shaken by a massive fraud case involving its former owner and president, officials said Wednesday, July 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke, File)Finance

    Vermont will pay foreign investors $16.5 million to settle lawsuits over fraudulent Jay Peak ski developments

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • Fredson BrissettEnvironment

    A wine and cider shortage will grip America after freakish spring weather: ‘We’ve never seen this kind of freeze event’

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • Lynda BluesteinHealth

    Historic assisted suicide settlement as 75-year-old Connecticut woman with terminal cancer can travel to Vermont for procedure

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man walks by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Jerusalem on July 20, 2021. – American ice cream-maker Ben & Jerry’s announced on July 19, 2021 they would stop selling their ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying its sale “is inconsistent with our values.” In a statement, the Unilever subsidiary said they “hear and recognise the concerns shared with us by our fans and trusted partners,” without elaborating. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)Retail

    Ben & Jerry’s rebukes corporate parent, saying the sale of its ice cream in the West Bank is ‘against its values’

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • Richmond, VermontPolitics

    A Vermonter who secretly lowered the fluoride in his town’s drinking water for years just resigned. ‘I cannot in good conscience be a party to this’

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press
  • Marijuana VermontLifestyle

    Vermont marijuana dispensaries are officially open for business

    By Lisa Rathke and The Associated Press