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MONTPELIER – The Vermont Attorney General has announced a settlement with a Florida company who was sending misleading emails in an attempt to gain payments from Vermont businesses.
Ben Kinnaman thinks he can transform the shipping industry and the world's navies by making vessels faster, more fuel-efficient and cheaper to operate. In the process, he hopes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect delicate marine ecosystems from invasive species.
Officials with L.L. Bean on Thursday announced an opening date for the retailer's new Williston store location.
MONTPELIER – Attorney General T.J. Donovan today announced a settlement with TurboTax, Intuit Inc. (Intuit), for deceiving Vermont consumers into paying for tax services that should have been free.
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Beta Technologies has cleared a big hurdle in its plans to build a new manufacturing facility near the airport in South Burlington.
SHELBURNE, Vt. -- Jonathan Goldsmith, best known for his role as The Most Interesting Man in the World in Dos Equis ads, and Tom Bodett, known for his Motel 6 radio commercials and also as a panelist on NPR's "Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me", came together to create a video to support Make-A-Wish®.
For $799,000, a buyer can acquire a fortress of a building made from locally sourced marble. The former Vermont Marble Company building in Proctor, VT, is now up for sale.
Scott Kerner from Good Measure Brewing Company announced today via a social media video that the brewer has purchased the Cornerstone Burger Company.
An April 10 post on Trip Advisor gave the public its first hint into the future of the North Hero House.
A large Panton dairy farm must make changes to stop turbid runoff and foul odors from contaminating a downslope neighbor, a state judge ruled last week.
Beta Technologies' plan to construct an electric aircraft manufacturing plant at the Burlington International Airport hit a snag last week over the placement of a parking lot, prompting outcry from the fast-growing startup and Gov. Phil Scott.
To connect their work as bakers to their Jewish heritage, Julie Sperling and Doug Freilich make matzah, the unleavened bread eaten by Jews during the eight days of Passover.
Burlington's Nomad Coffee has opened a new "outpost" in Essex Junction.
Two dozen low-income, mostly refugee families will not be kicked out of their homes in Winooski after their landlords, Rick and Mark Bove, abruptly changed their plans.
MORRISVILLE, Vt.—Many quality defects were found in syrup bought online, Vermont researchers found.
Vail Resorts has announced a raise in their minimum wage to $20 an hour for the 2022-2023 ski season at all 37 of its North American resorts.
On March 19, 2022, shortly after midnight, Troopers with the Vermont State Police responded to a vehicle crash on S. Main Street in Alburg, Vermont.
On Wednesday, March 16, Troopers with the Vermont State Police responded to a report of an alarm at the Crossroads Mobil of Alburgh.
MONTPELIER, Vt. – The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says warm spring weather and melting snows will cause bears to come out of their winter dens in search of food.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new COVID-19 guidelines on Feb. 25, 2022, to help inform people’s individual decisions about wearing masks. The new guidance recommends masks be worn indoors only in areas of high community risk and allows approximately 70% of people in t…
After being closed for almost two years, the landmark Parkway Diner in South Burlington has a new owner and a reopening date of mid-April.
Some of the organic dairy farmers who found out last summer that they were losing their contract with an international company may have a new way to stay in business.
Rick and Mark Bove want to evict 24 low-income, mostly refugee families from an apartment complex in Winooski and plan to raise rents to market rate, causing panic among tenants and alarming city officials.
Jodi Whalen, co-founder of August First Bakery & Café, confirmed that she and her husband, Phil Merrick, sold their Burlington business on February 15 to chef Frank Pace and his wife Marnie Long of Great Northern Catering.
Montpelier, Vt. - Governor Phil Scott, the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, the City of Newport and the Northern Vermont Development Authority today announced the award of about $1,500,000 in Newport Development Fund (NDF) grants.
Montpelier, VT – The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets (VAAFM) is now accepting applications from businesses seeking to vend at the Vermont Building at the Eastern States Exposition (Big E).
University of Vermont Medical Center nurses will receive 20 percent raises over the next two years under a wage agreement aimed at stabilizing the hospital's workforce.
A posting on social media simply said, "So thankful I got to be a part of the crew to film this Doritos Super Bowl Commercial. Fingers crossed that it airs!"
A total of 36 Vermonters are losing their jobs after a company that made a Keurig-style system for alcoholic drinks announced plans to shut down in mid-December.
Inside Business News Fellow Hannah Towey took a trip to Okemo Mountain over the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend to find out why the ski industry is having trouble attracting more Gen Z's to the sport.
The halls of GlobalFoundries’ sprawling campus in Essex Junction are quiet on a recent afternoon. At its peak, about 8,500 IBM employees worked here. Now, it has about 2,200 workers for GlobalFoundries.
RUTLAND CITY, Vt. (WCAX) - Rutland City is cracking down on abandoned shopping carts.
On January 21st, 2022 at approximately 5:30 PM a suspect entered the People’s United Bank located at the intersection of Shelburne Road and Hannaford Drive.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Farming businesses in Burlington’s Intervale are picking up the pieces after a vandal destroyed beehives and greenhouses on January 12.
New North End residents Tom D'Angelo and Chelsea Morgan were hoping "something good" would move in after Santiago's Cuban Cuisine left the Burlington neighborhood last month, D'Angelo said. Instead, the couple is taking matters into their own hands.
The Vermont State Police continue their investigation into the robbery of the Bar Harbor Bank located at 20 Methodist Ln in the town of Williamstown.
John Deere, the founder of a company that did $36 billion in sales in 2020, spent the first 32 years of his life in Vermont. Before moving to Illinois, he was born in Rutland, studied at Middlebury, and worked in Burlington, Vergennes, and Leicester.
Radio Bean will be closed for at least the next month due to rising cases of COVID-19 in Vermont.
Merrill Lynch has settled with the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation and the federally appointed receiver for Jay Peak over its handling of accounts used in the “Ponzi-like” scheme that defrauded millions from foreign investors.
DATE/TIME: 12:20 p.m. Friday, Jan. 7, 2022
Steve Martin, co-owner of Pump N' Munch, deep-fries a whole flour tortilla in a taco-shape until the outside is crispy and golden and the inside is warm and soft.
KILLINGTON, Vt. - The Vermont Department of Health is tracking a growing COVID-19 outbreak at the Killington Resort.
Just parked your car and about to get on the shuttle to the ski area base? Make sure you have a mask for the ride.
Nothing says Christmas quite like a fruitcake – or, at the very least, a fruitcake joke.
A new Aldi will be located in Williston at Taft Corners in the northeast corner of Wright Avenue and Trader Lane. That’s just behind the Northfield Savings Bank and CVS.
