Chittenden County

The program is meant to prevent people from needing hospital care by providing short-term support.

Last year, there were 720 new homes built in Chittenden County with 125 affordable units. Both numbers were below targets set by nonprofit housing developers.

The new walk-in clinic for people experiencing a mental health crisis will open on Oct. 28. Social service providers hope it will reduce pressure on hospital emergency departments.

The center, which will open Oct. 28, is meant as an alternative to the emergency room for people who are having a mental health crisis, but don’t need acute medical or inpatient psychiatric care.

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 one week.

Local housing leaders had set a goal to build 1,000 new units of housing — a quarter at affordable rates — annually for five years.

The city of South Burlington will use about half of a $2 million budget surplus to fund nearly a dozen special projects. The other half will be saved.

Charlotte News editor Scooter MacMillan chats with host Mikaela Lefrak about the news in the region.

A Shelburne cop used excessive force during an incident last year with a teenager, according to a county prosecutor and an internal affairs investigation. But it’s unlikely the officer will face criminal charges, and it’s unclear if he faced any discipline for his conduct.

The Chittenden Solid Waste District is seeking voter support to borrow $22 million to build an updated and more automated sorting center in Williston.