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  • Democrats in the Vermont House have identified more than $250 million in new initiatives to tackle in the next fiscal year, despite warnings from Republican Gov. Phil Scott to keep the budget lean. Now, lawmakers must let some of those priorities go – or find new ways to cover the extra spending, like tax increases.
  • Where moderate Vermont Republicans go after Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign. Plus, how much the state received from its first weeks of online sports betting, Casella Waste responds to criticism after reporting a leachate spill, three school districts decide to keep kids home for the day when next month’s solar eclipse takes place, and biologists are urging you to avoid peregrine falcons during nesting season.
  • How immigrants who are in the country without legal permission are advocating for better conditions on Vermont dairy farms. Plus, a bill making big changes to state wildlife regulations moves forward, U.S. Rep. Becca Balint votes in favor of a bill that could lead to a ban of TikTok, and announces her intention to run for reelection, the Vermont group that oversees a Middle East sister city program calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a man accused of killing two people in Orleans County pleads not guilty, and New Hampshire experiences its warmest winter on record.
  • A Vermonter recalls the last total solar eclipse from 1932. Plus, expanding educational opportunities for refugees and other New Americans, state lawmakers call for reopening Montpelier’s post office as soon as possible, another Vermont prisoner held at an out-of-state correctional facility has died, relatives of a man who died half a year ago after overdosing at a Vermont prison are still seeking answers, and a fully electric aircraft developed in part by a Vermont-based company takes center stage at a Cape Cod air base.
  • The wide-ranging implications of Vermont’s rapidly aging demographic. Plus, Sen. Sanders calls for blocking additional military aid to Israel, Vermont gets a stronger than expected report on the state’s economy, a skier who died after a fall at Mount Washington is identified as a UVM student, and a surge in children and teens turning to injectable weight loss drugs.
  • How climate change is disrupting a longtime tradition at a New Hampshire camp. Plus, a leachate spill at the Coventry landfill, arraignment is delayed for a state lawmaker accused of DUI, bears are emerging from hibernation, and officials want public feedback on a management plan for the Telephone Gap area in the Green Mountain National Forest.
  • Why nearly a third of school budget votes failed on Town Meeting Day, and where state lawmakers go from here.
  • Climate change is making it harder for Vermont’s high school cross-country skiers to get in a full season of competition. Plus, Gov. Scott says the large number of school budgets voted down on Town Meeting Day is a wake-up call for state lawmakers, some legislators say the entire education funding system may need to change, a disaster declaration request for storms that hit Vermont in January, and support staff and technical workers at Porter Medical Center form a union.
  • Towns that received federal rescue funding for housing and development projects debate how to spend the money. Plus, voters reject a large number of school budgets, how Nikki Haley managed to win Vermont’s Republican presidential primary before suspending her campaign, several towns voted on a ceasefire resolution for the war between Israel and Hamas, Barre Opera House’s executive director is stepping down, and cases of Norovirus are on the rise in the northeast.
  • A woman has been elected mayor of Burlington for the first time in the city’s history. Plus, communities around the state struggled with issues regarding property tax hikes, and questions of whether some schools with low enrollment should be closed, we have results on some school budgets that did make the cut, Montpelier approves eviction protection for renters and re-elects its mayor, several communities pass ceasefire resolutions for the war between Israel and Hamas, and Nikki Haley wins the Vermont Republican presidential primary, but is reportedly suspending her campaign.