Vermont Attorney General issues immigration enforcement guidance

Posted: Jun 11, 2025 / 01:16 PM EDT Updated: Jun 11, 2025 / 01:16 PM EDT MONTPELIER, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – Vermont’s Attorney General Charity Clark has released a “Know Your Rights” guide to help local immigrants understand their freedoms as...

Vermonters to appear in court for cocaine found in vehicle

RUTLAND, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – Two Vermont women are due in court after drugs were located in their vehicle during a vehicle stop Wednesday. Officers say they conducted this stop on South Main Street after noticing a violation. Authorities...

Vermont Free Food Fracas Exposes Progressive Folly

A controversial Burlington, Vermont, food distribution center run by self-avowed Marxist anarchists is set to be relocated due to business complaints of increasing crime and declining commerce. The City Council voted to relocate the free meal...

Children and families show pride at rally

The Champlain Valley School District held a pride rally last Saturday at Hinesburg Community School. “A fundamental message at events like this is just helping kids feel safe and comfortable coming to school and that there are people in their...

Friends of Vermont Public Education: The Achilles’ heel of Vermont education reform

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Richard Monterosso: The H.454 power grab is not tax relief or education reform

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a...

Southern Baptists’ call for the US Supreme Court to overturn its same-sex marriage decision is part of a long history of opposing women’s and LGBTQ+ people’s rights

The Southern Baptist Convention has lost 3.6 million members over the past two decades and faces an ongoing sexual abuse crisis. At its June 2025 annual meeting, however, neither of those issues took up as much time as controversial social issues,...

It’s not Bernie Sanders’s Vermont anymore

MONTPELIER, Vermont — The Green Mountain State is turning a shade of purple. It may seem a shocking political development for one of America's most liberal states, a seeming blue bastion, or something further left, that has elected socialist Sen....

Los Angeles seals the Democrats’ leftward lurch on immigration

When President Donald Trump won the White House last year for the second time, many Democrats concluded they would need to moderate on a cluster of issues on which they were on the wrong side of public opinion. Chief among them was immigration,...

Vermont Green downs Flower City 1872 in women’s friendly

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - On a picture perfect Wednesday night, the Vermont Green women’s team downed Flower City 1872 out of Rochester, New York 4-0 in front of a sold out crowd. “It was so much fun, I’m so proud of the team. As you all know, we...

‘I can’t take being locked up like this anymore.’ Detained immigrants at Burlington ICE facility allege unsafe conditions.

In a statement, a spokesperson for ICE said the Burlington office is “is intended to hold detainees while they are going through the administrative intake process,” after which they are “usually” moved to a detention facility. The spokesperson...

Curfew, Chaos, and Calls for Justice: L.A. Protests Erupt Over Immigration Raids

Get More of the Stories That Matter! Stay informed with the latest in politics, community news, entertainment, and more – delivered straight to your inbox Sign up now! Tensions remain high across Los Angeles as protests entered their seventh day...

Ask a Master Gardener: Vermont’s state flower

Vermont medical experts dismayed by RFK Jr. vaccine rhetoric

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - As federal health officials under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continue to send mixed messages about vaccines, state medical experts say they are reminding Vermonters that vaccines have been proven to be safe. RFK Jr., one of the...

We can have fewer districts without harming education

To the Editor: For years, Vermonters have shown their concern and support for education by willingly paying for a sprawling education governance structure that has expanded and grown every year. Like many, every November I have simply checked the...

A ‘concerned’ Mainer’s tip got an immigrant wrongly detained for 65 days

Border agents in Calais wrongfully arrested a Venezuelan man with lawful documentation to work and reside in the U.S. earlier this spring after a “concerned citizen” reported his construction crew’s van at a local gas station, according to court...

Antique car show to raise money for healthy, happy childhoods in Vermont

WARDSBORO — Prevent Child Abuse Vermont (PCAVT), a statewide nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy relationships within families, will host its first southern Vermont fundraiser, "Driving Change for Vermont’s Children," on Saturday, June 21, in...

Vermont Green FC Women take the field against Flower City 1872 live on WYCI Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Wednesday evening, the Vermont Green FC Women host Flower City 1872 in the second-ever women’s exhibition match at Virtue Field in Burlington. The crowd at the field has been a sell-out for days now, so WCAX sister station...

Vermonters protest immigration policies, stand in solidarity with LA

Vermont residents took to the streets with homemade signs, flags and bullhorns June 10 to show solidarity with immigration protests in Los Angeles. Speakers shared their disdain for the deportations happening locally and nationally, and their...

Green women put up 4 goals in 2025 exhibition debut

A sold-out Virtue Field crowd roared in excitement as Vermont Green F.C. dominated 4-0 against USL women's team Flower City 1872 on Wednesday.Vermont opened up the scoring in the 31st minute, and didn't look back from there as more than 2,500...