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For the first time in recent memory, Vermont has more beds in traditional shelters for people experiencing homelessness than the number of state-funded motel rooms. Temporary winter shelters will once again supplement the offerings on the coldest nights.

What can we learn about a small town from the way it collects its taxes?

While the Republican incumbent survived the “blue wave” he correctly predicted would crash over Vermont, he will not enjoy the electoral mandate that earned him so much influence in Montpelier during his past two years in office. Voters restored Democratic supermajorities in both chambers of the Legislature.

It's a haunted house, except it's in a barn.

On a picturesque dirt road in Johnson, a cider party is a decidedly uncomplicated good time.

This fall, the local event series "Hollywood, VT" is staging two unique events in Brattleboro. The first is a largely unrehearsed live screenplay reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film The Trouble with Harry. A couple weeks later, they'll screen Hitchcock's film followed by an audience Q&A.

Reporter Erica Heilman spends a day in the woods with horse logger John Smolinsky.

"He thought he kept the universe alone; / For all the voice in answer he could wake / Was but the mocking echo of his own / From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake." For October, Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone delves into The Most of It from the state's first-ever Poet Laureate, Robert Frost.

The bridge connects Lemington, Vermont, with Columbia, New Hampshire. “They’re always there for us, and we’re there for them,” New Hampshire resident Dana Ellingwood Hinkley said.

In this episode of "What Class Are You?" Kaye Phipps talks about why eating the marshmallow right away instead of waiting to get two makes sense in a world where nothing's promised.

Amanda Eldridge talks about growing up very Christian and very poor in this episode of "What Class Are You?"

Erica Heilman has a conversation with Steve Giroux about work ethic and class in this installment of "What Class Are You?"

Darlene Carey took care of her father after her mother died, and it changed her financial life for good.

A jury in Burlington rejected Jason Eaton's insanity defense today and found him guilty of attempting to kill three Palestinian men in 2023.

Maddie Cobb paid off her school debt in 10 years, and spent a lot of nights in the woods.