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The Burlington Waterfront is back open for the July 3rd celebrations following evacuation orders out of the area.

For 76-year-old Super Senior Mike Palmer, life has been pretty sweet. “I’m going to be learning until the day I’m gone,” he said.

Montpelier has called off all of its July 3rd festivities because of thunderstorms in the area

Vermont’s new education reform law has stirred up a number of concerns, but certain communities will also see benefits.

An effort is underway to honor the local heroes of the American Revolution.

The city’s Sculpture Trail has a new installation in the works honoring three volunteers who led the way to a national record.

Burlington's beaches have reopened after being closed by blue-green algae blooms for the first time this summer.

The city of Burlington is backtracking on a plan to allow homeless Vermonters to sleep overnight in their cars.

Construction is moving forward on Dartmouth’s new Hopkins Center for the Arts.

Faced with complaints from Burlington businesses -- and a mid-July deadline -- a program that provides free meals set up in City Hall Park on Thursday.

State lawmakers left open the opportunity to come back this fall to fill holes left by some of the federal cuts.

Fairlee's Fourth of July parade is back on this year after being canceled last year due to work on Interstate 91. Our Adam Sullivan reports.

Summer meals are now available for kids throughout our region, and those in the Burlington area can pick up a week’s supply.

Due to the increased potential for severe thunderstorms through this afternoon and into the early evening, the rest of today is a First Alert Weather Day.

New York and Vermont are among the states that have passed laws that could have conflicted with a GOP ban on state AI laws.

A rock climber was airlifted off Mount Washington Wednesday after taking a 60-foot fall.

A 14-year-old boy has drowned while fishing along the Poultney River in Hampton, New York.

All the people and their pets escaped unharmed.

Independence Day is believed to have the highest number of runaway dogs, according to the American Kennel Club. And in the county, almost every year, the Central Aroostook Humane Society sees stray dogs come in after the 4th of July celebration of fireworks.

The Good Citizen Challenge returns for week four.

Burlington’s Independence Day celebration kicks off with a boom Thursday night.

Authorities have recovered the body of a missing 14-year-old girl who apparently drowned in Kennedy Pond in Windsor on Wednesday.

North Country communities are set to get millions to support their infrastructure projects.

A new Land Use Review Board this summer will work on re-drawing where and how Act 250 is applied.

Tucked away on a quiet road in Dummerston, people come from far and wide to stay at "The Jungle Book" author Rudyard Kipling's estate.

The Trump administration has accused states and schools of using federal education grants to help fund “a radical leftwing agenda.”

An old diner in Windsor has a new home.

Welch highlighted a new bill he hopes will cut FEMA red tape.

Gov. Phil Scott, one of Vermont’s longest-serving governors, has never granted a pardon.

A new Vermont law aims to prevent workplace violence against health care workers. Our Cam Smith looks at how one hospital is prioritizing safety.

Some Burlington waterfront users are speaking out a day after the rollout of a city pilot program that will allow homeless Vermonters to sleep overnight at Perkins Pier.

Police say a Burlington city councilor was seriously beaten in a bar brawl, and they have arrested the alleged attacker.

Members of Vermont’s congressional delegation spoke out again Wednesday against the president’s budget bill.

Authorities say a man wanted in connection to a South Burlington shooting over the weekend was arrested Wednesday in Connecticut.

The UVM Health Network on Wednesday said its hospitals submitted their fiscal year 2026 budgets to state health care regulators.

A police procession through Burlington on Wednesday honored a Vermont police chief who died this week.

Burlington and Montpelier are preparing to welcome thousands for traditional July 3rd celebrations on Thursday.

Officials said drivers need to slow down, stay off phones, obey flaggers, and move over whenever possible because people’s lives depend on it.

Vermont officials say $26 million has been withheld for the 2025-2026 school year.

By a 52 to 28 percent split, New Yorkers think the bill will make the lives of many Americans worse.

Promising climate research out of the Northeast Kingdom could benefit Vermonters across the state.

An overheating transformer triggered an alarm at a vacant building on Cherry Street Tuesday night.

Montpelier’s 3rd of July parade will go on despite ongoing construction downtown.

Burlington will offer what officials call “safe overnight parking” for homeless Vermonters at Perkins Pier starting on Friday.

Work is underway to restore floodplains at the Intervale Wildlife Management Area in Colchester.

Chief Meteorologist Jess Langlois has some answers about all the wet weather we’ve been having lately and the longest stretch of dry days we’ve seen so far this year.

Several new Vermont laws that could impact your life take effect on July 1.

“Bienvenue” was the message as some ceded the Green Mountain State on Tuesday to Canada.

A University of Vermont researcher is exploring ways to insulate the region’s dairy industry from potential harm.

Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson were the first same sex couple to be legally recognized in a civil union in the U.S. on July 1, 2000.