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The Brattleboro Retreat says it doesn't have enough money to finish a 12-bed expansion that's underway. The recent announcement that the state won't add any more funding to the project is putting more pressure on the financially-strapped hospital.

Monica Hutt, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living (DAIL), said her department has delayed its rulemaking process for state-licensed long-term care homes to implement changes based on a joint investigation by VPR and Seven Days .

The city council in Vermont’s largest city voted unanimously Monday night to confirm the appointment of Jennifer Morrison as interim chief of police. She’ll now lead the Burlington Police Department, which has been mired in controversy after it was revealed last month that two senior police officials had anonymous social media accounts.

Vermont Edition takes you inside the Statehouse as lawmakers return to Montpelier. We're broadcasting live from the capitol's Cedar Creek Room with the sounds and voices of the Vermont Legislature on opening day!

After lawmakers approved a bill last year that encourages towns to work together to expand broadband coverage, more than 35 municipalities are expected to vote to form communications union districts at town meeting in March.

Democratic lawmakers closed out Vermont's 2019 legislative session in May under a cloud of discord after House and Senate negotiators failed to reach agreement on paid family leave and increasing the minimum wage. But House Speaker Mitzi Johnson and Senate President Pro Tem Tim Ashe say they're on a united front heading into 2020.

Each week, VPR touches base with a local newspaper reporter about a top story from their community. This time, we hear from John Gregg, news editor from the Valley News .

On Tuesday, Jan. 7, Vermont's legislature begins work on the second half of the biennium. But why do we have a biennium anyway? And how can civic-minded citizens keep up to date with what's happening in the State House?

A judge in Chittenden County determined this week that a man accused of killing his wife with a meat cleaver in 2017 is not competent to stand trial. The latest ruling in the politicized case delays the court proceedings until Aita Gurung is deemed fit to stand trial. Attorney General TJ Donovan said Friday his office is still committed to prosecuting the case.

Students enrolled in Middlebury College's "Spanish In The US" senior seminar last fall were handed a syllabus that tasked them with two main goals: researching extensive empirical data and using their new knowledge outside the classroom walls to combat racial stereotypes.

Vermont author Howard Frank Mosher spent more than 50 years living in, and writing about, the Northeast Kingdom. His beloved home became the inspiration, source and setting for many of his stories and characters, including the novels Disappearances , Where the Rivers Flow North and Stranger in the Kingdom .

Vermont's attorney general is bringing a rare enforcement action against one of the state's largest dairy farms. The AG's office filed a seven-count complaint against Pleasant Valley Farms Thursday in Franklin County.

State officials hope by Thursday to resume cleaning up about 8,000 of gallons of leachate that spilled in Coventry last week. Leachate is created when water seeps through trash.

VPR Classical host James Stewart brings a special Timeline podcast presentation to Vermont Edition entitled "Music and the Mind." The show explores the validity of "The Mozart Effect," traces the use of music in advertising and political campaigns, looks at auditory illusions and experiments and follows the history of music therapy.

January marks 100 years since the 18th Amendment banned alcohol across the United States. Vermont tried its own alcohol ban decades earlier. Today, the state boasts about its craft beer and spirits, even as Vermont has high rates of excessive drinking . And sober-curious drinkers can increasingly find alcohol-free beer and cocktails on the menu. We look at how our relationship with alcohol continues to evolve.