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On Tuesday, voters in nearly a third of school districts rejected their spending plans at the ballot box. ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý’s education reporter Lola Duffort spoke with Mitch Wertlieb about how we got here â€� and how this will impact the conversation in Montpelier.

“There are many irons in the fire,� said Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Baruth in an interview Tuesday.

Lawmakers want to lean on Vermont’s natural landscape to make the state more flood resilient. A new bill ramps up environmental regulations on developments in wetlands and near rivers, and looks to beef up � or remove � dams.

A new bill would change the rules of the road for Big Tech in Vermont. It faces an almost certain legal challenge.

With Town Meeting just one month away, Democratic lawmakers announced a plan to rewrite the state’s education tax laws to induce at least some districts to go back to the drawing board and cut spending. If this proposal passes, some school budget votes will be postponed until later in the spring.

There's a class of Vermonters that isn't allowed to enjoy the full benefits of the state's Medicaid program, and there's no getting around the factor that disqualifies them.

The most recent forecasts predict that school taxes could rise an average of 17% next year. So this Thursday, House and Senate lawmakers took testimony from school districts across the state to get a better understanding of the unprecedented rise in spending.

Economists for the Legislature and the Scott administration told lawmakers on Thursday that the outlook is good for the state's economy, though Gov. Phil Scott is still likely to put forward a budget proposal that increases by less than the rate of inflation.

As school boards worked to finalize the budgets they'll put to voters in March, lawmakers returned to the Statehouse to discuss a projected 18.5% rise in education taxes.

Six months after the July floods, Democratic lawmakers and Republican Gov. Phil Scott appear to be at odds over how much state funding should be allocated for the ongoing recovery effort.