All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 14 2024 // A bicyclist pulling a trailer in Vermont died after he was struck by a police cruiser, state police said.The crash happened just before 3 a.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 7 in South Burlington. The officer, a sergeant with the...
Oct 15 2024 // Vermont’s insurance regulator has approved an affiliation of Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co. with the Massachusetts-based mutual insurer Norfolk & Dedham Group.Under the now-approved “acquisition of...
Oct 2 2024 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it continues to face lawsuits over sexual abuse by its former clergy members in a state with no statute of limitations on...
Sep 30 2024 // President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for the severe flooding that hit northeastern Vermont in late July.The declaration makes federal funding available to help communities and individuals in...
Sep 23 2024 // Vermont’s largest city of Burlington has paid $215,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing a police officer of using excessive force by grabbing a man and slamming him to the ground, knocking him unconscious in September of...
Sep 12 2024 // Vermont has failed to complete many actions in its five-year hazard mitigation plan aimed at reducing the risk from natural disasters such as flooding, according to a new report from the state auditor’s office.The...
Sep 11 2024 // A small plane crashed in Vermont near an airport in Ferrisburgh, killing the four people on board, police said Monday.The Vermont State Police recovered the bodies from the wreckage of the four-seat, single-engine Piper...
Aug 29 2024 // Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article referred to this transaction as an acquisition. As both insurers are mutuals, and as mutuals cannot be legally acquired, the structure of the affiliation is not setup...
Aug 9 2024 // A Vermont judge has denied the city of Burlington’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against a Black teenager whose mother had called law enforcement to teach...
Aug 7 2024 // Vermont is flooding. Not just yesterday, two weeks ago and a year before that, but experts say the state could see catastrophic events like these for the foreseeable future.Climate change is fueling stronger, more...
Aug 4 2024 // The toll of damage from recent flooding in Vermont exceeds $6 million, and the state is asking the federal government for help, officials said.Vermont residents dealt with heavy flooding that damaged homes and...
Jul 30 2024 // Northern Vermont today is dealing with flash floods and washed-out roads after a night and early morning of extreme rainfall.Parts of Caledonia county and the Northeast Kingdom received 6-8 inches of rain last night and...
Jul 24 2024 // Exactly one year to the date of last year’s severe flooding in Vermont, Joe’s Brook Farm was flooded again by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl.This time it was worse. Workers were able to harvest some of the...
Jul 11 2024 // A flood watch was declared for much of Vermont on Wednesday — the anniversary of last summer’s severe flooding — and also Thursday, with heavy rains in the forecast.As Gov. Phil Scott and other officials...
Jun 17 2024 // Vermont’s governor has vetoed a broad data privacy bill that would have been one of the strongest in the country to crack down on companies’ use of online personal data by letting consumers file civil lawsuits...
Jun 5 2024 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited reported it has acquired The Essex Agency, Inc. of Essex Junction, Vermont.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Essex Agency is an independent insurance agency...
Jun 3 2024 // A Vermont man who lost his job after he said a random drug test showed he had used medical marijuana off duty for chronic pain has appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court saying he should not have been denied a portion of...
Jun 3 2024 // Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme...
Jun 3 2024 // Zurich North America, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, named Kara Higginbotham head of professional liability and cyber for U.S. national accounts, leading a team of underwriters who serve Zurich’s largest U.S....
May 29 2024 // A federal court in Vermont recently ruled that the First Amendment does not protect a construction firm and its officials using social media to retaliate against employees who exercise their rights under federal labor...