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New Hampshire utility proposes transmission line from Canada to carry renewable power to New England
A New Hampshire electric utility is offering a new proposal for an electrical transmission line from Canada that would carry renewable power to New England → Read More
The AP Interview: Vermont Sen. Leahy ponders his legacy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Patrick Leahy lingered on a narrow balcony on the west side of the U.S. Capitol, soaking in a panoramic view of the National Mall, the Washington Monument and, beyond, the Lincoln Memorial. → Read More
Students sue Vermont school over response to sex assaults
Three women are suing the University of Vermont, alleging the school failed to properly respond after they reported they had been sexually assaulted at school → Read More
Cops: Fake 911 call helped unravel Vermont murder for hire
A Los Angeles biotech investor is back in Vermont where he is facing a murder for hire charge for his alleged role in the 2018 kidnapping and death of a Danville man → Read More
Woman sues over residency requirement for assisted suicide
A Connecticut woman with cancer is suing Vermont for allowing only its own residents to take advantage of a state law that lets people who are terminally ill end their own lives → Read More
Judge rejects Ben & Jerry's request to block ice cream sales in Israel
A federal judge has rejected a request by Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's to block a plan by its corporate parent to have an intermediary sell its products in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. → Read More
Family of California shooting victims sue gun distributor
Family members of some of the people killed or wounded during a 2019 shooting at a California garlic festival are suing the companies that distributed the rifle used in the attack, saying they did not take sufficient care to prevent misuse of the firearm. → Read More
Ben & Jerry's ice cream fight in Israel heats up
The Vermont-based ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is suing its corporate parent Unilever over a plan that would allow its product to be sold in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank → Read More
Ben & Jerry's ice cream fight in Israel heats up
The Vermont-based ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is suing its corporate parent Unilever over a plan that would allow its product to be sold in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank → Read More
Vermont US Sen. Patrick Leahy breaks hip, to have surgery
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont has broken a hip in a fall at his home and was to undergo surgery to repair it → Read More
Republican governor urges US Senate to act on gun violence
Vermont’s governor, who supported changes to the state's gun laws after what he felt was a narrowly averted school shooting, used his credentials as a moderate Republican to urge the nation’s senators to work together to address gun violence. → Read More
Man charged with killing mother at sea to inherit estate
A man found floating on a raft off the coast of New England in 2016 after his boat sank has been indicted on charges that he killed his mother at sea to inherit the family’s estate → Read More
Lots of broadband money, but US expansion finds speed bumps
VICTORY, Vt. (AP) — In the remote Vermont community of Victory, Town Clerk Tracey Martel says she's regularly frustrated watching a spinning circle on her computer while she tries to complete even the most basic municipal chores online. → Read More
Canadian police start arresting protesters in Ottawa
Authorities in Canada are pushing back and arresting protesters who have paralyzed traffic in Ottawa for three weeks in a demonstration against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions → Read More
Ottawa crackdown: police arrest 100 after 3-week protest
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police arrested scores of demonstrators and towed away vehicles Friday in Canada's besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure, raising authorities' hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country's COVID-19 restrictions. → Read More
Canadian Parliament cancels as police vow to end protest
Canada’s House of Commons canceled its work on Friday amid rapidly increasingly signs police were about to begin breaking up the three-week protest by hundreds of truckers angry over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. → Read More
Trudeau says protests must end, truckers brace for crackdown
Hundreds of truckers clogging the streets of Canada's capital city in a protest against COVID-19 restrictions are bracing for what could be a possible police crackdown → Read More
Truckers brace for a police crackdown in besieged Ottawa
Hundreds of truckers clogging the streets of Ottawa in a protest against the country's COVID-19 restrictions braced for a possible police crackdown Thursday, nearly three weeks into the siege that has shaken Canada’s reputation for civility and rule-following. → Read More
Tensions mount in Ottawa as police warn truckers to leave
A showdown appeared to be shaping up in Ottawa’s nearly three-week siege by truckers protesting the country's COVID-19 restrictions as police in the capital warned drivers Wednesday to leave immediately or risk arrest. → Read More
Police ticketing, warning truckers to leave Canada's capital
Police in Canada’s capital are telling protesting truckers who’ve paralyzed the city for more than two weeks that it’s time to leave → Read More