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New data from the Vermont Department of Corrections shows a 25% increase in detainees in prisons from five years ago. Officials said it could be due to the pandemic-era backlog of cases.

A workplace safety complaint filed recently by the Vermont State Employees' Association alleges that staff at the state prison in Springfield are forced to work in excessively hot conditions.

Border Patrol agents say a woman from China has been arrested at Lake Wallace for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak.

The settlement covers Greg Bombard's 2018 arrest by a state trooper who said Bombard flipped him the middle finger � and a second, related citation nearly six years later, on Christmas Day.

Vermont State Police said on Tuesday that a skull found in Cavendish four years ago belongs to Bryan Gomez, a 48-year-old man who disappeared in 2010.

The agency is a holding a series of listening sessions this summer to gather input on the state’s new school safety law.

Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's statement comes a day after the Legislature overrode Gov. Phil Scott's veto of a bill to create a pilot facility in the Queen City.

James Parker was 16 at the time of his conviction stemming from the 2001 deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Vermont State Police announced last week that they’d identified the parents of an infant who was found dead on the side of the road in Northfield in 1982. Law enforcement officials say no criminal charges will be filed.

Scott said in a veto message that he appreciates the rationale behind the legislation but that the bill didn't include appropriations needed to undertake the reforms. Democratic lawmakers say they’re confident they have the votes needed to override the veto.