Representatives in the House Judiciary Committee narrowly advanced a bill to increase restrictions on guns in Vermont, with ...

Typically concerned with local issues, residents at town meetings in Vermont and elsewhere increasingly use the forum to ...

Dan Chiasson’s portrait of Bernie Sanders places the senator’s rise within the turbulent history of Burlington and Vermont.

Vermont is home to one of the oldest and most cherished forms of local election in the country: town meetings, a day-long form of deliberative democracy that reads as the antidote to authoritarianism.

Rep. Willem Jewett (D-Ripton) at a House Democratic press conference last week at the Statehouse. Credit: File: Paul Heintz When House Democrats held a rare Statehouse press conference last Wednesday ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement and American politics, has died. Top video: Jesse Jackson leaves significant mark on US politics Sign up for our Newsletters Jackson was ...

Jesse Jackson’s two campaigns for president, in 1984 and 1988, were unsuccessful but historic. The civil rights activist and organizer, who died on Feb. 17, 2026, helped pave the way for Barack ...

A resident scans his Town Meeting Day ballots inside the Barre Municipal Auditorium on March 1, 2022. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Vermont’s secretary of state says it could get more ...