VPR News Podcast

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.

In swimming holes all over of the world, since the beginning of time, there have been groups of women of a certain age who stand up to their thighs, talking. This is a show about them.

The number of people sleeping in a car or on the street in Vermont rose 63% from last year — and it's likely an undercount.

Vermont Green FC is playing for the USL League Two championship on Saturday. Head coach Chris Taylor was in-studio this week to discuss this season and the club's superpower of belief.

The Vermont Agency of Education said it was unaware that a recent hire, whose job included shooting video in schools, had previously been investigated and faced a civil lawsuit for secretly filming two teenage girls in a changing room.

A village farm in Pittsford is creating energy and investment and bolstering a sense of community.

Federal tax credits for rooftop solar will go away altogether at the end of this year, repealing decades of incentives that previously enjoyed bipartisan support.

This week on Rumble Strip, host Erica Heilman and poet Garret Keizer go for a drive around the Northeast Kingdom and talk about poetry.

The Burlington-based semi-pro soccer team Vermont Green FC played the opening match of the conference tournament last Friday. It was a big night for the team and fans alike, especially the Green Mountain Bhoys, a supporters' group of the club. Vermont Public's Burgess Brown spent the evening in the stands with the group.

Deer flies are so bad this year in Jane Lindholm's town that neighbors have complained that they can't garden, can't play on their swingsets, and struggle to take their dogs for walks. Vermont Public had to put her on the case.

Opponents had hoped to overturn the new rules, which are designed to keep the growth of new rentals in check in the small Windham County town.

“Operating a small business is like riding a roller coaster,” says Mike Proia, who owns the cafe at Bread & Butter Farm in Shelburne.

A conversation with Armand Patoine about gardening, and what God has to do with it — which, it turns out, is everything.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, supplies the vast majority of food aid in Vermont, where about 65,000 residents received $155 million in benefits last year.

A mobile Mexican consulate set up in Montpelier to help nationals obtain passports, birth certificates and other official documents. An undocumented farmworker living in Vermont who drove his coworkers to the event discussed the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and his own journey to the U.S.

Nearly a quarter of U.S. emergency department visits among people 60 and older resulted in a hospital stay. The rate goes up the older you get. That's why health experts recommend seniors pack an emergency go-bag to make surprise hospital visits better.

The Tiny Acorn will close on August 15.

Mark Utter could not communicate with words until he was 30. Then he had a whole lot to say.

Roughly 20 homes in Sutton remained cut off from road access as of Friday, according to Kyle Seymour, the town fire chief.

The Trump administration wants states to assume a bigger role in disaster response and recovery. The ambiguity over what that looks like has complicated the task of state officials trying to gird for the next catastrophe.

After two years of catastrophic floods, towns are still figuring out how to protect their infrastructure.

The Springfied Development Review Board denied a permit application from Acadia Healthcare to open a methadone clinic in a building downtown that houses family medical practices.

On the anniversary of a second devastating flood, one Plainfield couple considers whether to stay — or go for good.

Charity Clark said she thinks her Republican counterparts in other states will eventually join the fight in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

"What class are you?" is a periodic series that explores everyday lives inside the American class system. In this episode, Susan Ritz talks about the complexities of having more resources than most.

A postcard from childhood, a place we remember but can't visit anymore.