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VTBuys is a joint project of the Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services — which houses the state’s Office of Purchasing and Contracting — and the Vermont Agency of Digital Services, which takes a leadership role on state IT projects.

Montpelier’s acting city manager, Kelly Murphy, did not respond to repeated requests for an interview on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. The Montpelier City Police Department also did not respond to multiple interview requests.

The dispute centered on a bid by State Auditor Doug Hoffer to get answers from the Vermont’s Attorney General’s Office to questions that his office posed when conducting an audit related to a tax-increment financing project in Burlington.

Esther Ngoy Tekele — a 23-year-old Congolese woman who has been held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody for over a week — was ordered to be released on bond on Thursday.

The art of herding geese — and why Vermont does it every year at Dead Creek

The Development Review Board in Essex, after another hourslong meeting Thursday night, nixed Scannell Properties’ proposal to build an Amazon distribution facility in Saxon Hill.

Four staff members at Companions in Wholeness plan to continue to work without pay, as locals say losing the organization would be devastating.

More than two weeks since the attempted rollout, VTBuys, a digital platform intended to radically simplify how the state contracts and pays bills, is not yet live.

One person camping in the small park said about eight to 12 twelve people had been staying there, at least some of whom arrived in the wake of the July 1 motel evictions.

The ruling comes in a rare lawsuit pitting one elected statewide officeholder against another.

Vermont woman arrested by ICE to be released on bond

Essex town board votes down proposed Amazon development in Saxon Hill.

The total cost of the bridge was estimated last year at $60 million to $80 million, and the project previously received a $24.8 million federal grant in 2022.

OPINION — "When the cuts do come, we need transparency by the Scott administration on what is being cut and the likely impacts," Chen writes.

The pigs have since been moved to Merrymac Farm Sanctuary in Charlotte, where founder Era MacDonald said they have begun to gain weight and confidence in their surroundings.

The head of Southern State Correctional Facility was placed on leave “pending the outcome of an investigation into an allegation of misconduct,” the Vermont Department of Corrections announced Thursday.

“While the agency is aware of other state education agencies that may be preparing to lay off federally funded staff, the agency is thankfully not in this position,” agency spokesperson Toren Ballard said wrote.

A new grant to rebuild the 95-year-old bridge was announced Thursday by Vermont’s congressional delegation.

Two runaway pigs have set off a storm of accusations. Some say animal rescues, as a whole, need reform.

“While the agency is aware of other state education agencies that may be preparing to lay off federally funded staff, the agency is thankfully not in this position,” an agency spokesperson said.