All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2012 // As winter turns to spring, Vermont officials are warning local homeowners about awakening bears. Homeowners are advised to take down bird feeders to help keep bears out of trouble. Photo credit: Vermont Fish and Wildlife...
Mar 19 2012 // Five months after the remnants of Hurricane Irene inundated Vermont, people are recording their memories of what happened. In Waterbury, residents published “When the River Rose,” a part community memoir and...
Mar 16 2012 // Vermont and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are joining to put $19.8 million toward buying out properties that are prone to flooding. Gov. Peter Shumlin, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch and other officials traveled to...
Mar 5 2012 // First the waters came with the rains of Hurricane Irene’s remnants, swamping dozens of Vermont communities, destroying homes, businesses, roads and upending lives. The cover of the book "When the River...
Mar 5 2012 // UnitedHealth Insurance paid a $250,000 penalty in Vermont last month to resolve administrative charges. The Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities & Health Care Administration imposed the penalty on...
Feb 22 2012 // UnitedHealth Insurance Company has paid a $250,000 penalty in Vermont this month to resolve charges brought by financial regulators.The Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities & Health Care Administration...
Feb 17 2012 // A top Vermont health official says the administration of Gov. Peter Shumlin is zeroing in on what sort of benefit package to offer in a new health insurance marketplace to be launched in 2014, and has narrowed the field to...
Feb 13 2012 // Vermont lawmakers will decide this winter how their state will design a health insurance exchange. The federal Affordable Care Act requires states to create exchanges by 2014 or have the government do it for them. The...
Feb 9 2012 // Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and legislative leaders said this week they wanted to make it possible for more of the state’s small businesses to offer lower premium health insurance plans sometimes known as...
Feb 8 2012 // Twice in less than a century, Waterbury’s 1827 Congregational Church, at the crest of a small rise on Main Street, has played a critical role in helping the community escape the ravages of the rising Winooski River...
Feb 7 2012 // A Vermont fire chief says there’s been an increase in chimney fires because of the warmer weather.Townshend Fire Chief Doug Winot says two fires over the weekend were apparently caused by clogged chimneys. He tells...
Jan 31 2012 // Voters in Lowell and Eden are going to vote on whether to request that an abandoned asbestos mine be declared a federal Superfund hazardous waste site so it can be cleaned up and eventually redeveloped as a biomass power...
Jan 27 2012 // Union Mutual of Vermont Companies has appointed Robert Glass as the vice president of underwriting. Robert Glass Glass comes to Union Mutual with 24 years of insurance experience, most recently with The Hartford Insurance...
Jan 26 2012 // New Jersey and New York have the worst tax climates in the nation for business, according to a new report by the Tax Foundation,a Washington, D.C.-based research firm.Two other Northeastern states, Vermont and Rhode...
Jan 24 2012 // June Tierney and Kellie Burke never envisioned island living in the Vermont woods, but Tropical Storm Irene had other ideas.Their home, a two-story, natural-sided saltbox, was a rural idyll on a wooded 10-acre lot off a...
Jan 23 2012 // Vermont added 41 new captive insurance companies last year, bringing the total number of licenses to 952, with 590 active captive insurance companies, according to data released by the Vermont Banking, Insurance,...
Jan 19 2012 // Aides to Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin have unveiled the next steps in his plan to move Vermont toward a single-payer health care system, and some business groups aren’t happy about it. Administration officials on...
Jan 13 2012 // The number of people who died on Vermont highways last year dropped 22 percent last year, to 55, the lowest number since 1944, officials said this week.The statistics released by Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn and...
Jan 11 2012 // Vermont added 41 new captive insurance companies last year, bringing the total number of licenses to 952, with 590 active captive insurance companies, according to data released by the Vermont Banking, Insurance,...
Dec 31 2011 // A trucking company owned by a Vermont state senator and his son has been shut down for not having workers’ compensation insurance.A court has granted a permanent injunction against Starrs United, Inc. Sen. Bobby...