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The experience of transgender and nonbinary Americans has changed significantly in recent decades. Alongside increased visibility is a new federal push to define how transgender people identify. But in Vermont these communities face daily questions, from bathrooms to health care to pronouns. We're talking about the transgender and nonbinary experience in Vermont.

There were two Act 46 merger proposals on Tuesday’s ballots, and voters overwhelmingly rejected both of them.

Once the last vote has been cast and most have been counted, it's time to make sense of the results. Then it's time to parse the outcomes and look into what it all means for Montpelier and Washington. We'll talk to politicians and reporters to make sense of the results.

Republican Phil Scott is headed to a second term as Vermont's Governor. He told VPR that he plans to focus on making Vermont more affordable, protecting the state’s most vulnerable population, and growing the economy.

To go to someone’s funeral and speak solely in generalities about the sadness of death, without mention of the person who died or condolences to the family would be completely out of place. Yet that’s what often happens when we experience an act of violence motivated by hate.

Progressive/Democrat David Zuckerman is headed to a second term as Vermont's lieutenant governor, having beat back a challenge by Republican state Rep. Don Turner.

Vermont's congressional delegation won't change next year. Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch both won re-election last night by wide margins.

In Rutland, Democrat William Notte beat Republican Jacqueline “Beth” Fleck to take control of a Rutland City House seat previously held by Republican Doug Gage. Similarly, Rutland resident Cheryl Mazzariello Hooker wrangled another victory for the Democrats, this time by winning a hotly contested Senate seat.

The "blue wave" that Democrats had been hoping for nationally on Tuesday crashed over Vermont a long time ago, but one Vermont Republican has somehow maintained his foothold in this otherwise left-leaning state.

Brattleboro voters have extra incentive to make sure their voices are heard on Election Day.

Thanks to the VT Council on World Affairs and the Open World Leadership Program , we just hosted two young women who are journalists in Yaroslava, Russia. And I’m struck by how similar the challenges they face are to our own.

At the VPR - Vermont PBS U.S. Senate debate , there were two election observers present. They were from an international organization called the OSCE, or the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe. They send observers to elections in all participating nation states, and representatives from the organization have been watching many aspects of the midterm elections around the U.S.

Looking for live updates and photos from Election Day 2018? VPR has you covered.

In my first week as a cub police reporter in Chicago, when I called in to ask the night editor, Arnold Dornfeld, “What do you have for me?" he replied with drill-instructor like scorn: "Infinite contempt, chum!"

In only a few moments, the Tree of Life synagogue had become the synagogue of death by the hand of one gun wielding anti-semite. This was the most horrendous attack against American Jews in our history. And non-Jewish communities around the country, including Burlington, grieved with their Jewish neighbors and friends.