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Flu season is just beginning, but brace yourself, because it's only going to get worse from now until we hit a peak in a few months. We're talking about how the season is shaping up this time around, and how healthcare workers fight a continuous battle against a host of rapidly mutating influenza viruses.

Students of Vermont’s natural history know the state was largely clear-cut 100 years ago, and forests have been slowly regrowing ever since. But conservationists say the pendulum has begun to swing back the other way and that's changing how animals navigate the state.

Synagogues around the world — and around Vermont — invited Jewish people and those of other denominations to attend Jewish religious ceremonies this weekend. This came as part of the Show Up for Shabbat movement, a national campaign to show solidarity with the Jewish community after last week’s shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Among those eligible to vote in the United States, older people show up to vote far more than younger people. It’s a situation many schools are trying to address by getting kids interested in local elections before they are old enough to cast a ballot. To that end, students at Barstow Memorial School in Chittenden, welcomed more than a dozen candidates running for state and local office to talk about issues face to face.

The outcome of the 2018 race for Vermont's governor could have a profound effect on government policy for years to come.

When you hear about wastewater discharges into Lake Champlain and leaky roofs at public schools, it’s easy to want to see them fixed. But how much would you pay to fix these problems in your community? Residents in Burlington are considering that question in this election.

As the 13th president of the University of Vermont, Guy Bailey expanded the campus, constructed new buildings and led the school through the Great Depression. For decades his name adorned the university library, the Guy W. Bailey/David W. Howe Memorial Library, often called simply the Bailey/Howe Library. But Bailey was also a proponent of eugenics. That legacy inspired students and faculty to push to drop his name from the library. Last month, the university’s board of trustees did just that ,

I think of the confluence of entertainment and politics as dating back to the 1980s at least, with the election of former actor Ronald Reagan – setting the stage for today with a president who starred in the reality TV show, The Apprentice before playing that same role (tough businessman/great deal-maker) on the national stage.

Open enrollment is underway on Vermont’s health insurance marketplace, Vermont Health Connect . Sean Sheehan, deputy director of the Department of Vermont Health Access, sheds some light on what’s changed this year, and he has this advice: "This is not the year to auto-renew."

Visitation services will be held Saturday at the Clifford Funeral Home in Rutland for Judge Frank McCaffrey, who died Oct. 27 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center from cancer. He was 82.

Vermont’s historic painted curtains hang in town halls and granges all over the state, harkening back to a time when vaudeville and local theater were the main sources of entertainment in rural towns. Now a Broadway playwright has developed a play that looks at one of Vermont’s most prolific painted curtain artists.

The days are getting shorter, the hours of daylight are fewer and this time of year it's not uncommon to experience a bout of the winter blues. But a more serious form of depression afflicts nearly six percent of the population: Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. We're talking about the symptoms, misconceptions and treatments for this uniquely seasonal form of depression.

Throughout this gubernatorial campaign, Democratic candidate Christine Hallquist and Republican incumbent Gov. Phil Scott have debated a variety of issues, but the question of leadership style has also come up as a difference between the two candidates.

Thirteen candidates are vying for the six state Senate seats in Vermont’s most populous county.

As we approach Election Day, the rhetoric in most of America has become overheated. Civility has succumbed to hostility, and we’ve even seen people with extreme views resort to guns and bombs.