All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 18 2012 // Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed into law the next step in a multi-year effort to revamp Vermont’s health care system and make it more like Canada’s. The bill Shumlin signed on Wednesday calls for setting up a...
May 18 2012 // Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s first ban on a hotly debated natural gas drilling technique that involves blasting chemical-laced water deep into the ground.The Democrat, surrounded at a...
May 7 2012 // Vermont officials said its captive insurance industry is off to a strong start in 2012, with the state having licensed eight new captives during the first quarter.“We had a great first quarter with the licensing of...
Apr 26 2012 // Stephen Cutlip had only been living in Mendon for several weeks when he was displaced last summer by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene.Following the August flood, he lived in a series of motels then spent three months in...
Apr 16 2012 // Vermont officials said its captive insurance industry is off to a strong start in 2012, with the state having licensed eight new captives during the first quarter.“We had a great first quarter with the licensing of...
Apr 6 2012 // Vermont’s regulatory agency that oversees the state’s banking, insurance and securities sectors has adopted a new name this week. The agency, which used to be called the Vermont Department of Banking,...
Apr 2 2012 // The Vermont Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a slain 12-year-old girl’s father who claimed the ex-wife of the man charged in her murder was negligent in his daughter’s death and that her insurance...
Mar 29 2012 // Officials with the National Hurricane Center had a message this week for residents living in hurricane-prone areas: Don’t tape your windows.Center officials are joining with a consumer advocate group at the National...
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...