In state court in Barre, a Waterbury man changed his pleas in cases of attempted child luring and possession of child sex abuse material cases.

Canada geese molt their flying feathers in the summer, grounding them for a few weeks. That provides a window for state scientists — and volunteers like those at the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area recently — to keep tabs on the birds. 

Recent Vt. State Police reports include two car crashes and a larceny case in Waterbury.

The two-year streak of rain on Waterbury’s parade was broken this year as the 2025 Not Quite Independence Day parade, the Green Mountain Mile footrace, block party and fireworks enjoyed sunshine and clear skies after morning showers blew by. Check out lots of photos from the day.

The state of Vermont recently announced grant awards of more than $830,000 administered by the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation to be used for the development and restoration of trails across Vermont. 

Performers and audience members alike recently got a little more than they bargained for during two circus shows under a large tent pitched in a Vermont field as scattered storms moved through. 

Vermont’s farmers are growing crops that better suit the state’s warmer and wetter climate — and branching into products that provide income even when traditional crops fail. 

For the past seven years, volunteers have been pulling and clipping Japanese knotweed from riverbanks, open fields, roadsides and plenty of places in between.

Waterbury Backcountry Rescue Team responded on Saturday to assist an injured hiker on the Middlesex side of Hunger Mountain. On Wednesday, the team worked on Perry Hill to assist an injured mountain biker.

State and federal agencies are investigating a sophisticated financial hack of $81,000 carried out as the Town of Waitsfield paid its engineering firm $81,000 for work conducted as part of the town’s wastewater project.

A Florida teen charged in connection with a single-vehicle crash that killed a Fayston man on July 5 has pleaded not guilty and is seeking to move the case to Vermont Family Court.

BOLTON – Three youngsters spent Thursday night hunkered down off-trail on Camels Hump after a summer-camp orienteering exercise went awry, triggering a search and rescue effort involving multiple state and local agencies that ended soon after daybreak on Friday. 

Waterbury firefighters had a busy Wednesday responding to two structure fires in Waterbury and Duxbury that mobilized multiple local crews along with mutual aid from several neighboring communities. No one was hurt.

Just before 10 p.m. on Sunday, search and rescue teams from Waterbury and Stowe responded to Hunger Mountain to rescue a hiker injured in a fall. 

The Town of Waterbury has landed two state grants totaling nearly $300,000 to fund improvements to part of the downtown business district and a new effort to make a core commercial area in Waterbury Center more connected and pedestrian-friendly. 

A pedestrian was fatally struck in Fayston on Saturday, and a Florida teen driver was scheduled to face a criminal charge in court on Monday, according to Vermont State Police.

Several local residents are among 83 appointments that Gov. Phil Scott has made recently to state boards and commissions.