All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 16 2025 // Bigglestone Appointed Acting Commissioner of Vermont Department of Financial RegulationVermont Governor Phil Scott named Sandy Bigglestone as acting commissioner of the state’s Department of Financial Regulation...
Jan 15 2025 // Vermont continues to grow its captive insurance industry. The Vermont Department of Economic Development (DED) has reported that 2024 was among Vermont’s top 10 highest years of growth since it enacted its...
Jan 14 2025 // Vermont Mutual, headquartered in Montpelier, Vermont, named company president Mark J. McDonnell as chief executive officer.McDonnell first joined Vermont Mutual as senior vice president in 2014. He was named executive vice...
Jan 13 2025 // A Vermont school district’s inadequate response to serious and widespread harassment of Black and biracial students has led to a settlement agreement with the federal government, the U.S. Justice Department said...
Jan 6 2025 // The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused over several decades by climate change.The...
Dec 5 2024 // The last thing John and Jenny Mackenzie saw as they fled their Vermont home with their daughters, dog and two guinea pigs last summer was their cars upended and propelled away by rushing flood waters.Minutes earlier they...
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...