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At Darn Tough Vermont, which is expanding and adding 300 full-time positions in the next five years, Governor Peter Shumlin today signed an economic development bill that will give a boost to Vermont’s growing economy by increasing access to capital for startup business, expanding proven incentives to grow jobs, and encouraging job seekers to come to Vermont.

Vermont Business Magazine The preliminary approval for a power line that would travel from Quebec and run nearly 100 miles under Lake Champlain, before terminating in eastern Vermont, will now head to the public comment phase of the process.

After nearly eight years at the helm of the largest community development organization in the region, Merten Bangemann-Johnson is leaving the Northeast Kingdom nonprofit.

The Senate on Tuesday passed the bipartisan USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, an historic bill coauthored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) to rein in surveillance authorities for the first time since passage of the USA PATRIOT Act. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee last Congress, Leahy convened six high-profile hearings on surveillance authorities.

Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law today the education reform bill that he said would help ensure educational quality for all Vermont students while bending the cost curve on education spending to address Vermonters’ calls for property tax relief.

Vermont is below the US average in the percentage of women-owned businesses and near the bottom in the growth of such businesses since 1997.

Successful behavioral and mental health treatment relies on understanding the status of a patient's physical health as well. In order to make more informed decisions about patient care, Northwestern Counseling & Support Services, Inc (NCSS) Behavioral Health Division recently joined 1,000 other Vermont providers who utilize a secure portal to access their patients' health information.

Vermont will receive over $179,000 as its share of an $8 million consumer protection settlement reached between 22 States and Classmates, Inc, Florists Transworld Delivery, Inc and FTD.com Inc.

A report released by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) confirms that Vermont continues to be a national leader in the fight to end childhood hunger, especially during the summer months when free school meals are not available.

The University of Vermont Medical Center's Frederick C Binter Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders is one of just 29 centers in the US to be named “Centers of Excellence” by the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) for 2015. Other designees include Stanford University, Duke University, the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins University.

Southern Vermont College in Bennington has announced that its Baccalaureate Nursing program has recently been awarded accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).