A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship has made an initial apperance in a Vermont courthouse.

The daughter of a Pennsylvania couple whose deaths are among six connected to a cultlike group says she has been falsely accused of killing her parents.

A Vermont firm is recalling more than 1,700 pounds of butter because it may be contaminated with coliform, a type of bacteria found in fecal matter.

Vermont’s child welfare agency has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the state routinely targets and tracks pregnant women deemed unsuitable for motherhood.

Business owners from both sides of the U.S.-Canada border have gathered in Vermont to share their experiences with the sweeping tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

Crowds protesting Vice President JD Vance the day after an Oval Office blowout over Ukraine lined roadways Saturday near a Vermont ski resort where he planned to vacation with his family.

A 21-year-old Washington state woman faces two weapons charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.

Mikaela Shiffrin has recovered from her ski crash two months ago and tells The Associated Press she plans to return to World Cup racing next Thursday at a slalom event in Courchevel, France.

Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent near Canada that also left a suspect dead and another injured.

Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent has been fatally shot in northern Vermont.

A new lawsuit alleges that Vermont's child welfare agency routinely targets and tracks pregnant women deemed unsuitable for parenthood.

The East Coast is experiencing a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather.

The East Coast is due for a whiplash-inducing rainy, windy and potentially dangerous stretch of weather.

A flight carrying the No. 11 Auburn men's basketball team was grounded shortly after takeoff on Friday after two players got into a fight onboard, according to multiple reports.

A woman from China has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says flaws in a Vermont program are preventing the state from adequately controlling phosphorus discharges from certain farms, which contribute to severe water quality problems in Lake Champlain and other bodies of water.

Health officials warn that a rare but deadly mosquito-spread disease is posing a serious threat in parts of New England, prompting the cancellation of some events and changes to sports schedules to avoid bites by infected bugs.

Two bouts of flooding in July has hampered businesses and destinations in an economically depressed section of northeastern Vermont, with some still closed as they continue to repair damage and others urging visitors, who were deterred by the weather, to make the trip.

Debby has finally moved out of the U.S. after the storm spent the better part of a week unleashing tornadoes and flooding, damaging homes and taking lives as it moved up the East Coast after first arriving in Florida as a hurricane.

Vermont is flooding and experts say the state could see catastrophic events for the foreseeable future.

Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018.

A Republican state lawmaker from Vermont has apologized for repeatedly pouring water into a Democratic colleague’s bag, after he caught her doing it on video.

Noah and Kristen Dweck have seen a number of black bears around their home in Vermont but this was a first.

A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of “doctor of litter-ature” on a cat named Max who has become a beloved member of its community.

For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family.

Lawmakers in at least 12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death.

Vermont's Goddard College is closing at the end of the semester after years of declining enrollment and financial struggles.

Federal prosecutors say a man has been charged with setting a fire outside the office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in Burlington, Vermont.

Welcome to New Jersey, known around the world for Tony Soprano, Turnpike tolls, chemical plants, and.

One of Vermont’s historic covered bridges is under threat from modern technology.

Super Tuesday didn't quite live up to its name.

Nikki Haley has won the District of Columbia’s Republican primary.

Sixteen and 17-year-olds in one Vermont town will get to vote in the local elections next week.

Plunging into a frozen lake and swimming laps may not be everyone’s good time but it is for some winter swimmers.

A Vermont mother has filed a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed Black son with behavioral and intellectual disabilities.

Since catastrophic flooding hit Vermont in July and upended plantings, some farmers are trying to figure out how to get to the next season.

Walgreens has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle allegations about service in some of the national pharmacy chain's Vermont stores during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has reached its first contract agreement with workers at a retail shop in the Vermont city where the company was founded after the employees petitioned to unionize last year.

A Vermont state trooper is being praised for plunging into a frigid pond and saving the life of an 8-year-old girl who had fallen through the ice while playing with siblings.

A Connecticut woman who pushed for expanded access to Vermont’s law that allows people who are terminally ill to end their lives has died in Vermont.

A storm barreling through the Northeastern U.S. has flooded roads and downed trees, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands, forced flight cancellations and school closures, and killed at least four people.

A combination of heavy rain, snow, and wind is bringing threats of flooding and power outages to the Northeast.

A storm is dropping a mix of rain and snow on parts of New England, with some locations recording more than a half-foot of snow to start the week.

Authorities in Vermont are weighing whether the shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent over the weekend was a hate crime.

A man pleaded not guilty to attempted murder Monday in the weekend shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont.

The Federal Aviation Administration finally has a Senate-confirmed leader.

Vermont State Police have released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a retired college dean who was shot dead last week while walking on her favorite trail near the Vermont State University campus.

Social media users take note: You'll no longer be able to snap that fall foliage selfie in your autumn attire at one popular Vermont spot.

A Vermont driver has pleaded not guilty to a charge in the June crash that killed actor Treat Williams.

Authorities say a Vermont armed robbery suspect who eluded capture in the past week in a vehicle, on a stolen bike, on foot and in a stolen sailboat has been arrested after he was spotted in a kayak on a river.

An artist has lost his appeal to remove fabric panels covering his murals at a Vermont law school that were intended to honor African Americans and abolitionists involved in the Underground Railroad.

A Vermont theater company is hoping to get back into its playhouse next summer after it flooded this July.

As some states ban or restrict certain books in schools and libraries, Vermont’s lieutenant governor is on a statewide banned book reading tour, highlighting what he calls the importance of representation, free speech, open dialogue and exchange of ideas.

Across the U.S., municipal water systems and sewage treatment plants are at increasing risk of damage from floods and sea-level rise brought on in part or even wholly by climate change.

Crews across the eastern U.S. are working to clear downed trees and power lines and restore electricity following severe storms that killed at least two people, cut power hundreds of thousands, and forced thousands of flight delays and cancellations.

A beloved bookstore in Vermont’s small capital city moved across the street to a new spot farther from the Winooski River after an ice jam sent river water into the store in 1992.

Officials say a Vermont driver will be charged with gross negligence in the crash that killed actor Treat Williams.

Phish will play two special shows next month to benefit flood recovery efforts in Vermont and upstate New York.

Heavy rain has washed out roads and forced evacuations in the Northeast, especially in Vermont and New York.

Vermont’s Republican governor has signed abortion and gender affirming shield bills into law that are the first in the country to explicitly include protecting access to a medication widely used in abortions even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of the pill, mifepristone.

Workers seeking to unionize at a Ben & Jerry’s retail shop in the city where the ice cream brand was founded announced Friday that the company has signed the fair election principals.

Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s says it supports a plan to unionize by the workers at a retail shop in the same city where the brand was founded.

Edward Koren, a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, known for his hairy, huminoid creatures, has died.

One hand-crocheted blanket came with a note saying “Welcome to the USA" and advising the recipient to dress warmly in Vermont.

Vermont's leading Roman Catholic bishop testified Friday against a bill that would remove an exemption to the state’s child abuse and neglect reporting laws for members of the clergy.

Officials say the death of a Mexican immigrant who had just entered the United States from Canada illegally is highlighting a spike in illegal crossings along the border between Quebec, Vermont and parts of upstate New York.

Walt Disney Co. has removed from its streaming service in Hong Kong an episode from its cartoon series The Simpsons that includes a reference to “forced labor camps” in China.

A brawl broke out among spectators at a middle school basketball game in northern Vermont, and a 60-year-old man who participated in the fight died, police said.

A federal appeals court in New York is considering whether the Vermont Law and Graduate School modified a pair of large murals when it concealed them behind a wall of panels nearly 30 years later against the artist’s wishes.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a law making her state the sixth in the nation to allow human composting as a method of burial.

Wendy Holdener’s lengthy wait for a slalom victory has come to an end although the Swiss skier had to share top spot with Anna Swenn Larsson.

World champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland has won her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years with a triumphant second run.

Ben & Jerry’s board of directors has rebuked the sale of products bearing any of the ice cream maker’s insignia in West Bank settlements.

Voters in five states are deciding whether to close loopholes that allowed convict labor as an exception to slavery.

The office of U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy says he is out of the hospital and he's planning to return to Vermont for a full schedule of planned events.

Vermont's 82-year-old Sen. Patrick Leahy has been hospitalized after he felt unwell at his McLean, Virginia, home.

Rail advocates are dusting off a proposal for passenger train service between Montreal and Boston, riding on a renewed interest in train travel.

Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi has died in a crash during a gravel race in Vermont.

A Connecticut woman with cancer is suing Vermont for allowing only its own residents to take advantage of a state law that lets people who are terminally ill end their own lives.

After an uneven start, Donald Trump’s tour of revenge ousted Republican members of Congress, unleashed an army of Trump-backed “America First” candidates to beat back the establishment and strengthened his grip on the party.

Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota won a closer-than-expected Democratic primary race against a centrist challenger who questioned Omar's support for the “defund the police” movement.

A Vermont family’s chicken is back home after hitching a ride last month in the undercarriage of their pickup truck and ending up 13 miles away in the state’s largest city.

The search is continuing for a Texas woman suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in Austin.

As mask mandates and vaccination rules kept falling across the U.S., infections from the latest COVID variants have been quietly taking hold in some places, sparking concern among public health officials but stirring a muted response from pretty much everyone else.

Alec Baldwin and his family have purchased a retreat in Vermont that includes a farmhouse and about 50 acres.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle's silver in the super-G at the Beijing Games has given the United States its first men's Alpine skiing Olympic medal since 2014.

Stratton Mountain School has sent 46 alumni to the Olympics – and several are in Beijing. Learn more in this episode of The Podium.

The family of a woman strangled by her husband nearly three decades ago in Vermont is handling the news that her killer could soon go free.

The wife of a former Vermont legislator and House majority leader says he has died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives.

A German shepherd named Tinsley successfully led New Hampshire state police to the site of its owner’s rollover crash.

The Christmas Queens of North Pole, Vermont, Trish and Diana have won the Best Holiday House decorating competition every year for the past nine years.

Food waste is California's next target as the state seeks to lower greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

The U.S. has reached a COVID-19 milestone of 200 million fully vaccinated people, but cases and hospitalizations are still spiking, even in highly immunized pockets of the country like New England.

A Vermont high school homecoming football game turned into a “drag ball” runway at halftime with a mix of students and faculty members parading in gowns, wigs and makeup, and a big crowd in rainbow colors.

Despite having some of the highest vaccination rates in the country, the six New England states are still grappling with effects of the delta surge in cases and the strains on the health care system caused by rapidly increasing COVID-19 case counts and more hospitalizations and deaths.

President Joe Biden is nominating a Vermont judge who played a critical role in paving the way for the legalization of same-sex marriage to become the first openly LGBT woman to serve on any federal circuit court.

Two brothers operating their family’s dairy farm in Vermont have made the drastic decision to give up hundreds of cows for goats.

The U.S. Passport Agency has ended its no appointment walk-in service at its Vermont's office after it was overwhelmed by people seeking documents for overseas travel.

Seven people were apprehended after entering Vermont illegally from Quebec by driving across the lawn of a library built in both the United States and Canada.

The roar of applause that typically greets a new president entering the House chamber softened to just a few hundred hands clapping as Joe Biden arrived to deliver his first joint address to Congress.