Lake Memphremagog

Plunging into a frozen lake and swimming laps may not be everyone's good time but for winter swimmers who return year after year to a northern Vermont lake near the Canadian border, there's nothing better.

A 3-year-old fell through ice on Lake Memphremagog in northern Vermont with two adults and another child on a side-by-side recreational vehicle and was later hospitalized, Newport Police said.

Between 35% and 45% of the mature brown bullhead in the lake have melanoma, a skin cancer. This rate of cancer has never been documented in fish anywhere else.

An update on efforts to regulate wake boats in Vermont.

Host Connor Cyrus talks with Vermont's Department of Environmental Conservation about proposed rule changes for wake boats and Vermonters advocating for tweaks to the proposed rules.

A new environmental justice organization called Slingshot hopes to focus on waste policy in Vermont.

Lake Memphremagog crosses the international border into Canada, where more than 175,000 locals rely on the lake for drinking water. Now the University of Sherbrooke plans to launch a permanent observatory to monitor the lake’s health and water quality.

PFAS in Lake Memphremagog. Plus, two free college courses for Vermonters, frustrated housing advocates, and COVID-19 numbers.

When PFAS chemicals were detected in Lake Memphremagog last fall, it set off alarm bells on both the Vermont and Canadian shores of the lake. Now the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is undertaking extensive testing for the chemicals starting this summer.

More than 3,700 people have signed a petition asking Vermont to designate Lake Memphremagog a “lake in crisis.” It's a unique label that can bring extra…