Private equity has established a much more significant footprint in Vermont's health care landscape than was previously widely known. That’s injected new urgency into the regulatory conversation in Montpelier — but also complicated it.

It is unusual for pro tems who aren’t seeking higher office to announce their retirement mid-session. Senate President Pro Tem Phil Baruth said he wanted to give his colleagues time to choose his replacement.

Forced school district consolidation isn't the only obstacle to reform this year, because Vermont lawmakers will also have to poke the hornet’s nest that is school choice.

Two years after the reform law passed, and now that maps are being drafted, a growing chorus of critics asks whether the law’s promise will be realized.

The Green Mountain State has long prioritized consumer protection and quality care in its health policy. That’s resulted in much better, more comprehensive coverage — if you can afford the exorbitant insurance premiums.

Three weeks into a legislative session that’s supposed to produce one of the most consequential school-governance overhauls in state history, lawmakers are knee-deep in the “inherent contradictions” that make meaningful reform so elusive.

Lawmakers and the governor will experience a sobering comedown from the fastest period of revenue growth in Vermont’s history.

Members of a task force created to draw new school district maps say forced mergers would unleash disruption and dislocation in an education system that isn’t yet prepared for that level of transformation.

House and Senate negotiators tasked with finding a path on education reform didn't talk about funding, governance or taxes this week. They fought over scheduling.

Democratic lawmakers have spent the last five years laying the groundwork for the most aggressive emissions-reduction policies Vermont has ever seen, but a political sea change after the November election has brought that work to a “standstill,” according to legislators and climate advocates.