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Attorney General Donovan testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee who is taking testimony on a bill that would establish a regulatory system for the production and sale of cannabis and cannabis products in Vermont.

At 10:26 PM on Wednesday, January 30th, 2019, the Winooski Fire Department responded to a structure fire within a commercial building that houses 30 storage units located at 103 C West Spring Street in Winooski.

Vermont Green Building Network’s (VGBN) seventh annual Vermont’s Greenest Building Awards Competition is now open for submissions.

Saint Michael's College is requesting assistance from the public to identify the people pictured in the attached photos.

Vermont Electric Co-op members continue to express interest in VEC’s Co-op Community Solar Program two years since the program was launched, and just over the past six months about 50 new members have sponsored solar panels and have begun saving money on their electricity bills.

With extreme cold hitting Vermont, Attorney General T.J. Donovan is warning that older adults and those with chronic medical conditions are especially susceptible to hypothermia.

color:black">At a press conference on Wednesday, Governor Phil Scott, Education Secretary Dan French and employers in Vermont’s tech sector proclaimed January 30^th as “Make Computer Science Count” Day in Vermont. 

Healthy Living Market & Cafe today announced plans to open its third store in Shelburne, VT. This will be the company’s second location in Vermont; the flagship location is located on Dorset Street in South Burlington, the other in Saratoga Springs, NY.

A new corporate social responsibility report published by National Life aims to take a much more holistic view of the company’s sustainability efforts.

In an effort to combat rising wealth inequality, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation Thursday to establish a progressive estate tax on the fortunes of the top 0.2 percent of Americans and significantly increase rates on billionaires.

Governor Phil Scott, Secretary of Administration Susanne Young and Human Resources Commissioner Beth Fastiggi announced an “Infants in the Workplace” program for state employees.

All of the plastic manufactured since Bakelite debuted during the Depression still litters the earth. The world is choking on an invention that’s barely a century old.

Today, shoppers worldwide use 500 billion single-use plastic bags a year or a million bags a minute. A million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals die annually from plastic entanglements and these are just the ones we find. There are about 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of ocean. Fleece particles are appearing in the flesh of Atlantic fish.