The Catamounts are headed to the NCAA Tournament after defeating the top-seeded Albany Great Danes last week. Head coach Alisa Kresge talks to Mitch Wertlieb about the team's run of success and their mindset going into Saturday's game against NC State.Av Mitch Wertlieb

The Vermont Independent talks about the recent funding resolution votes in Congress, his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour and why he wants people to get involved in the political process.Av Bob Kinzel

The awards honor outstanding local work in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and children’s literature. The prizes are overseen by Vermont Humanities and the state Department of Libraries.Av Jenn Jarecki, Kevin Trevellyan

Royalton is the latest Vermont town to consider beefing up its existing regulations on what people can do with properties that regularly flood. Community response there could yield helpful lessons for the state.Av Abagael Giles

In Vermont, there are only 11 day programs aimed at supporting older adults and providing daytime respite for caregivers. Proposed Medicaid cuts could exacerbate that shortage.Av Nina Keck

In the next few months, the hospital board will vote on whether or not to close the birthing center at the community hospital in Morrisville.Av Lexi Krupp

The town of Richmond recently backed out of its plans to hire the former Hinesburg police chief after officials raised concerns about his actions in the days leading up to his departure.Av Mary Williams Engisch, Adiah Gholston

At town meeting in Windham, voters agreed to turn over its school from the school district to the town. Voters also approved an article to offer health insurance to its town clerk and treasurer.Av Howard Weiss-Tisman

On Tuesday, Vermonters gathered to discuss, debate, and vote on issues directly related to their community. That includes the big stuff — town and school budgets — and the small, like resurfacing tennis courts or earmarking a few thousand dollars for after-school programs.

Businesses in the Northeast Kingdom and in northern Vermont are reporting that Canadians are cancelling planned trips to Vermont or saying they won't visit during the Trump administration.Av Brittany Patterson

Congressional Republicans voted Tuesday night for a House budget resolution that could reduce funding for the health insurance program for people with low incomes and people with disabilities, in order to pay for tax cuts and more military and immigration enforcement spending.Av Elodie Reed

Education officials argue that without intervention, health costs will only continue to cannibalize ever-larger shares of local school budgets — no matter what cost-containment measures Montpelier decides to impose on districts.Av Lola Duffort

For many Vermont farmers, bird flu poses an especially serious risk this year, amid fears the virus could spread to dairy cattle in the state.Av Lexi Krupp

Underenrollment has long threatened the tiny, mountainside Ripton Elementary School. But now, parents in that community are racing the clock for one last chance to save their combined kindergarten-first grade class.Av Sabine Poux

Gov. Phil Scott’s administration has made prioritizing such infrastructure projects a cornerstone of his housing agenda.Av Carly Berlin

Saja Almogalli is the newest district liaison officer for Winooski's schools. Her background as a refugee from Iraq informs her work in one of Vermont's most diverse school districts.Av Jenn Jarecki

The city police department says false statements made by one of the candidates negatively impacted the department’s contract negotiations. Now, city unions have weighed in, and the race itself is colored by the work history of the two men running for the job.Av Nina Keck

Singers with the Green Mountain Chorus, Vermont's oldest barbershop ensemble, have fanned out across parts of northern Vermont each Valentine's Day for decades — serenading Vermonters in offices, homes, restaurants and even on the street.Av Brittany Patterson

Champlain College's Game Studio has over 20 years of experience training students for the video game industry, including at their international campus in Canada.Av Bryant Denton

A group of 85 refugees from Jordan and Syria are in Brattleboro taking part in a first-of-its-kind college preparatory program as they get ready to attend American universities and colleges in the fall.Av Howard Weiss-Tisman

A downtown apartment building stitched Plainfield together. On July 10, floods washed it away. The Heartbreak Hotel was the kind of place where neighbors saw each other every day, where generations of people, from all walks of life, found belonging and someone to wave to in the morning. Twelve people were living there at the time, and they all surv…

"Uncomfortable conversations need to happen." Raneen Salha and Sarah White discuss their thoughts, feelings and personal connections to the war between Israel and Hamas.

More than four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the state judiciary is still struggling with an enormous backlog of criminal cases and competing public pressures around how justice should be pursued. To better understand how the system is working, Seven Days and Vermont Public embedded two reporters at the Burlington criminal courthouse for…

Two Abenaki First Nations are continuing to call for Vermont institutions not to work with state-recognized tribes, and to reconsider the process that led to the state recognizing those groups as Abenaki tribes. Those nations — Odanak and Wôlinak — are receiving a mixed response. 2024-04-02: This story has been updated to more accurately reflect th…

John Harrison traveled Vermont as a preacher in the 1880s. A racist name in town records preserved his memory. Note: This story contains sensitive material, including racial slurs. Please listen with care.

Ashley Messier is the co-chair of the Corrections Monitoring Committee in the Vermont Legislature, and she’s the reentry services program manager for Vermont Works for Women. She grew up in Essex with an abusive father and with little money, and she found herself repeating the cycle in early adulthood. This is a story about multigenerational povert…

Many people don’t want to talk about class, because class differences are the source of cultural division and tension. In this story, Erica talks with old friend Susan Randall, a private investigator based in Vergennes, about the luxuries of growing up upper middle class. "What class are you?" is an occasional series from Vermont Public reporter Er…

In 2023, around 70% of the total wealth in this country was owned by the top 10% of earners. The lowest 50% of earners only owned 2.5% of the total wealth. In this story, Vermont writer and poet Garrett Keizer, who has written extensively on the history of labor unions, talks about what happens when we address gender and race equity, but we ignore …

Stephanie Robtoy works as an account manager at Working Fields, a staffing agency that helps people with barriers gain and maintain a job. She grew up in St. Albans in a huge family of Robtoys, some of whom are pretty notorious in town for criminal activity. In this story, Stephanie talks about what it was like to grow up poor, with a last name tha…

Irfan Sehic and his family fled the war in Bosnia and arrived in Barre when Irfan was 17. He worked a number of jobs, went to college and started his own insurance agency, which he still runs out of his house. And for the last few years, he's been a club soccer coach. Irfan lives with his wife and son in Milton, and in this story, he describes the …

Who gets to decide who is Abenaki? Vermont’s four state-recognized tribes — and the state recognition law — have different definitions and criteria for what it means to be Indigenous than many Indigenous Nations. In this episode, we look at this disconnect, and lay out what’s at stake, including power, money and authority. This is Chapter Three of …

After the original group of self-proclaimed Vermont Abenaki failed to gain federal recognition, Vermont lawmakers created a state recognition process of their own. One theory in particular informed the state’s consideration: that Abenaki peoples hid in Vermont to avoid persecution, including statewide eugenics policies. In this episode, we look at …

Two Abenaki First Nations in Canada contest the legitimacy of the four groups recognized by the state of Vermont as Abenaki tribes. This is a dispute that goes back at least two decades, and has gained more prominence in recent years. In this episode, we trace Abenaki history up to 2003, when Odanak First Nation first denounced Vermont groups claim…

University of Virginia researchers say the complaint line run by the grassroots workers’ rights program Milk With Dignity improves conditions for both farmworkers and farm owners. But the program currently only covers one-fifth of Vermont’s dairy industry. Read more from Vermont Public's Elodie Reed.…

Giuliano Cecchinelli is part of a long legacy of Italian stone carvers in Barre, craftsmen whose skill transformed an industry and made the small central Vermont town the “Granite Capital of the World.” In the early 20th century, Barre was a booming industry town. Thousands of workers spent their days making monuments. The railroad chugged into tow…

How the events of last year changed Vermont schools and law enforcement. Also - where's Jack?

How do you know if a young person is plotting a school massacre? And what do you do then?

How a Republican governor who had been rated "A" by the NRA decided that Vermont, one of the most gun-friendly states in the nation, needed gun control laws.

When does planning a school shooting become attempted murder? The question went all the way to the Vermont Supreme Court.

Jack Sawyer’s journal contained a startling confession. It landed him in jail, and sent shockwaves through the state of Vermont.

Who is Jack Sawyer, and why did he want to kill his former classmates?

Coming September 6 from Vermont Public Radio.