VERMONT

The gathering comes as a student at the school is recovering after being shot along with two other men of Palestinian descent in Vermont Saturday night.

More than 50 people gathered Tuesday evening at a candlelight vigil in downtown Burlington, Vermont, to show their support for three college students who were shot over the weekend. One is Palestinian and two are Palestinian American.

The victims' families and civil rights organizations are calling on Vermont law enforcement to investigate the Burlington shooting as a hate crime.

Heat, poor air quality, rain and flooding affected New England summer theater this year.

Gauges maintained by the USGS between Montague and Holyoke, Massachusetts, indicate the river remains at flood stage — but as of Wednesday morning, most points were leveling off or starting to recede.

Dozens of cemeteries across New England have started offering green burials. That’s where bodies can decompose underground, without the use of embalming fluids or concrete vaults.

Chief Rick O’Bomsawin of Odanak First Nation – currently based in Quebec, whose ancestral lands include Vermont – says no one contacted Odanak officials during the state's Truth and Reconciliation selection process.

Fertilizer created as a byproduct of wastewater treatment is raising the alarm in some New England states because wastewater treatment plants were not built to handle the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

The largest remaining piece of private property inside the Green Mountain National Forest has been permanently protected from development and will be open to the public in perpetuity.

For the first time, federal regulators have proposed major limits on PFAS in public drinking water. What does this push mean for Vermont?