Vermont News

ALSO: Law enforcement officials said a woman charged with murdering a rising cycling star from Vermont was found to have obscured her physical appearance while on the run; The nurses union at Vermont’s largest hospital has reached a tentative agreement with management; A new report found that the state apparatus governing Vermont’s child care and early education systems is fundamentally broken.

ALSO: Sen. Bernie Sanders has endorsed Becca Balint in the race for Vermont's sole U.S. House seat; Ben & Jerry’s is suing parent company Unilever in an attempt to stop the sale of its Israel business; Rutland Regional Medical Center has asked regulators for hefty budget increases.

Plus: Susanne Young sworn in as Vermont’s 1st female attorney general; Brattleboro’s EMS takeover, intended to save money, racks up higher costs; Corrections boss calls for ‘temporary’ staff changes with longer set shifts, 60-hour work weeks

Plus: Will Kasso Condry is the first-ever winner of the Vermont Prize, Hardwick keeps 2 police chiefs on payroll as investigations drag on, State officials are moving forward with a plan to transition to electric vehicles.

ALSO: Vermont Medicaid will help thousands of low-income residents get access to services that private insurance may not cover, under a five-year extension of a federal waiver; Vermont’s Office of Professional Regulation has filed charges against Walgreens pharmacies across the state; VTDigger has the scoop on all of Vermont's best Fourth of July weekend celebrations.

ALSO: Vermont schools are wrestling with which flags to fly after a Supreme Court ruling; The woman accused in a Vermont cyclist's murder was captured after more than 40 days; Unilever has sold its Ben & Jerry's subsidiary in Israel; VTDigger has launched its 2022 election guide.

ALSO: Montpelier has temporarily stopped accepting leachate because of E. coli levels, sending it out of state; Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom says it has received a record-breaking surge in donations since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade; New rules are being considered for the use of wake boats on Vermont’s lakes and ponds.

ALSO: The two Democrats vying to be Vermont’s next attorney general say that, if elected, they’ll aim to bolster protections for people seeking and providing abortions in the state; Balint, Gray campaigns go tit-for-tat on super PACs; Aki Soga has become the first Asian American journalist to lead the Burlington Free Press.

ALSO: A Massachusetts company’s plan to build a telecommunications tower in an Enosburgh neighborhood has divided residents there; A new program from Champlain Housing Trust aims to help Black, Indigenous and people of color with down payments on their first home; Both Democratic candidates vying for the vacant state’s attorney seat in Washington County say they favor many of the same approaches to the county’s most pressing problems. But not entirely.

ALSO: Many towns across Vermont are already welcoming early voters for the primary election; A coyote attacked a woman and a dog in Panton on Sunday; A large Windsor County employer laid off 80 employees on Wednesday and plans to close its Springfield manufacturing plant.