VPR News Podcast

Captain J.P. Sinclair was at the center of hundreds of major crime investigations with the Vermont State Police. Here, he talks about it.

Herbert Chang teaches social sciences at Dartmouth, and he authored a study that delved into a fairly simple question: Among pet owners, who donates more to charitable causes? The answer came as a bit of a surprise.

The trees are showing off, seasonal roads are still open, and you don't even need snow tires yet. Here are our favorite routes and some suggested stops along the way. See the full guide.

If more towns band together to plan and pay for projects, it might be possible to reduce the impact of flooding in the state's larger economic centers, usually downriver.

Spring-fed and shallow dug wells at Vermont's old homes are particularly vulnerable in the drought. Drilling a new well can cost as much as $20,000.

Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which begin to take effect this week, could imperil eligibility for thousands of Vermonters.

A show about the challenges of picking health insurance and using health insurance and understanding health insurance. Plus hold music.

Square dancing is a popular activity for millions of people all over the world, but it can be more than just a hobby. Research shows it can fight many of the negative effects of aging.

Vermont is hoping that state-level diplomacy will alleviate the strain that U.S. foreign policy has put on the state's business ties with Canada.

Susan Randall is private investigator and we've been friends for 30 years. Every now and then we get together and compare notes on our lives.

No one had published a full accounting of the extraordinary amounts of public money spent on housing since 2020. We pieced it together.

As the climate warms, scientists are working against the clock to solve a mystery about why the Bicknell's thrush, which travels thousands of miles to raise its young on mountaintops across Vermont and the Northeast, is declining.

Ralph Rockwell talks about a lifetime of rebuilding vehicles, and then we go to a tractor pull, where tractors are pulled, and sandwiches are eaten.

In Chittenden County, the median sale price of a primary home reached $500,000 last year.

A timber rattlesnake was removed from a yard in Grand Isle this summer — far from the only known breeding grounds in Vermont. Experts say it could have hitched a ride to the island in a car or boat.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a powerful conservative law firm that has won several precedent-setting cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, brought the lawsuit on behalf of the Quechee school.

Beyond his endorsements of high-profile candidates, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said he's hoping to encourage younger and working class people to engage in the political process at all levels.

Teresa Youngblut, 21, pleaded not guilty on Friday to new charges, including murder, related to the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont earlier this year. If convicted, Youngblut could be sentenced to death.

A show about turning 50 and recording "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

Randy Leavitt, whose family has been in East Barnard for 10 generations, is building an outhouse with a composting toilet outside the village church. It will be open to the public.

VINE Sanctuary in Springfield specializes in a once-rare form of rehabilitation for roosters rescued from cockfighting and other dangerous situations. The teaching sanctuary also provides haven for cows, geese, sheep, pigeons, turkeys, goats, horses and emus.

The international Poker Power organization teaches women and girls poker-playing strategies that aim to strengthen risk assessment, decision making and financial literacy. Lark McCarron started the first-ever high school Poker Power club.

Daphne Kalmar taught elementary school for over 20 years, and she was one of those teachers — one of the exciting and inspiring ones you never forget.

Operators are proposing big changes for how they run three dams on the Connecticut River.

During the first Trump administration, Muslim families used the library, which sits on the Vermont-Quebec border, to meet loved ones they couldn't visit in the U.S. because of a travel ban.

Brink spent most of her life in Vermont's Washington County. She first got exposure to Abenaki language and traditions through her grandmother, Elvine Obomsawin Royce, and other relatives, who would make baskets and share family stories.

There's one league at the Brattleboro Bowl that plays all year round, but you can only join it if you're over age 50.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was eliminated through a bill passed by Congress. Why does it matter?

Wildfires have always affected air quality in New England. But scientists say climate change is changing how they burn and bringing more smoke to the region.

For two decades, Camp Agape has supported kids and families impacted by parental incarceration.

Scott Garvey moved to Vermont to be closer to his family and get better mental health treatment. A week after he arrived he was shot and killed by state police while in the midst of a mental health crisis.

Bryan Pfeiffer on snails with wet, technicolor, pulsing eye stocks, and coming face-to-face with 300 million years of evolution.

To get ready for climate change, Montpelier is deconstructing a historic home on the property of the city's founding settler, Jacob Davis.

Business owners say they're hearing less French and seeing fewer visitors from across the border. State data backs up their observations.

Brattleboro and the town of Hinsdale have been working on a plan to rehabilitate two historic bridges, but now the New Hampshire town says it does not want to support the project

The Montshire Museum in Norwich has exhibits throughout its trails geared towards being present in the natural world and to process grief.

A conversation with Bill Schubart about living with obesity.

Vermont schools got more than $31 million in Covid relief money. Those funds ran out as districts faced unprecedented tax increases, and now it's a challenge to keep summer programs going.

A new state permit authorizes the town of Franklin to drop a mixture of aluminum sulfate and sodium aluminate into Lake Carmi this fall.

For nearly two decades, the retired middle school teacher has been on a singular quest: to find, photograph, and inventory every school in Vermont that ever was — at least, if a record exists of it.