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Gov. Phil Scott delivered his budget address Tuesday afternoon at the Vermont Statehouse.

President Trump has proposed major changes to decades-old environmental regulations . The proposal would overhaul how the National Environmental Policy Act , or NEPA, is implemented, meaning many big projects like highways and pipelines would no longer require a federal assessment of environmental impact.

Towns and cities across northern Vermont are trying to increase traffic from all-terrain vehicles, commonly called ATVs, to boost business in a region suffering from declining population and a sluggish economy . But proposals to open public roads to ATVs frequently spark debates and divide communities.

U.S.-Iran relations have been tense for years, but tensions only tightened after an American drone strike killed a top Iranian commander earlier this month. For Iranian-Americans in Vermont, the conflict affects not only their lives, but the lives of family members both here and abroad. We're talking to a Vermonter with Iranian roots about his experiences and insight into US-Iran relations.

When the town of Brattleboro put up a Civil War monument more than a hundred years ago, it didn’t include the black soldiers who served in that war. Now some local students want to change that.

Leaving his multi-year post as executive director of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington and moving into a new role as a citizen legislator serving the city of South Burlington had John Killacky feeling "humbled" — and a bit nervous.

The Vermont Senate approved paid family leave legislation Friday by enough votes to override an expected veto by Gov. Phil Scott.

Every Tuesday and Friday night, there’s an auction at the corner of Lower Plain Road and Route 25 in Bradford. Ely Commission Sales is run by Ernie Stevens, and VPR's Erica Heilman went down on a recent Friday night to talk with Ernie and check out the auction.

The Democratic presidential race is in high gear, with the Iowa caucuses less than three weeks away. Sen. Bernie Sanders has made "Medicare For All" a major issue and is seeing strong support in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Vermont Edition hosts a roundtable of political analysts to take a close look at the Democratic race.

The U.S. House officially voted to send articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate Wednesday, and an impeachment trial could begin as early as Tuesday. But you might be forgiven if you forgot this all started back in August with a whistleblower's complaint about a phone call between Trump and Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky. The complaint was major news, but speaking out against government impropriety isn't new in American politics.

Middlebury College is expanding its language school offerings this summer with a pilot School of Abenaki. The two-week-long immersion program will be taught by Jesse Bowman Bruchac, a member of the Nulhegan Abenaki and a teacher of the Abenaki language for more than 25 years.

The U.S. House formally sent two articles of impeachment over to the Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for a Senate trial. It's expected that the Senate will deal with some procedural issues this week and actually begin the trial Tuesday. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, talked to VPR about the key issues in the trial and whether or not additional witnesses should be called to testify.

When the state denied a $2 million emergency bailout request by the Brattleboro Retreat this month, the public back-and-forth that followed shined a light on the psychiatric care facility's fragile financial situation. While Brattleboro Retreat officials are no longer talking about immediate closure, health administrators across the state say they're watching the situation closely because they say any cuts in psychiatric services at the Retreat will have serious and potentially dangerous ripple

On a bright, December morning, Darn Tough Chief Technology Officer Jim Decker balanced precariously on a table in the lobby of the Waterbury building the company was about to begin leasing. Company CEO Ric Cabot egged Decker on as he stretched toward the New England region on a large map of the world that adorns the lobby wall. Small dots across the map mark the places where Keurig Dr Pepper, the company that used to occupy this building, operates. Decker reached up and slapped a Darn Tough

A new survey of school districts across Vermont has revealed a backlog of more than half a billion dollars in unmet infrastructure needs.