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An amendment to this year’s omnibus transportation bill would increase most fees that the DMV charges — for new driver’s licenses, vehicle registrations and license plates, among others — by nearly 20%.

New eligibility requirements would kick in starting May 31. At that point, only people fleeing domestic violence, families with children, those aged 60 and over, pregnant people, and certain households that recently lost their housing would remain eligible.

Former state senator John Rodgers presented his former colleagues with a printed-out list of 20 proposed regulatory and statutory changes to the state’s cannabis industry.

As many as 25 to 30 of the state’s 139 organic dairy farms are at risk of going out of business in the first half of 2023 without “swift and substantial intervention,” a NOFA-VT policy director told lawmakers.

Andy Birch and his wife, Sarah, set about reviving his family's Derby dairy farm in 2014, when milk prices were near record highs. They bought...

Dairy production, pricing and farm income will be controlled by the government, and paid for by jacking up the prices of dairy products paid by families who won’t ever catch on.

Ever since arriving in the Legislature in 1979, Representative and Senator Bobby Starr (D-Orleans) has pursued his one great legislative passion: to get dairy farmers more money. As chair of

Sen. Bobby Starr of North Troy recently reached a milestone birthday. He is not one to make a big deal of much of anything other than his family’s achievements, and certainly not his birthday. But his personal milestone brings forward Sen. Starr’s remarkable record of longevity of service in the Legislature and to Vermont, worthy of celebration and this note of thanks. Sen. Starr is the longest-serving member of the Vermont Legislature, having served for 43 years. He has served both in the H...

Will Gov. Scott’s administration step forward to defend the law in court? Or was agritourism month just another photo op?

The patriarch of one of Stowe’s best-known farm families has been inducted into the Vermont Agriculture Hall of Fame.