Burlington City Council President Max Tracy won’t seek reelection; Pilot project to send rapid tests to Vermonters; State senator introduces bill to remove religious exemption for vaccine mandates; Legislature may allow municipal governing boards to meet solely online until 2023.

Gov. Scott sounds optimistic note in annual address; Burlington City Council goes remote; Dairy task force asks USDA for support; Lawmakers asked to extend law allowing traveling health care workers.

Vermont officials distributed only about half of nearly 90,000 test kits set aside for students; 4 more Covid-19 outbreaks in Killington area following holiday week resort outbreak; Tenants decry Burlington airport director’s handling of Beta expansion; Funding for pandemic food assistance program extended to April.

How to watch Vermont’s 2022 legislative session; Covid-19 set to bring changes to 2022 town meeting season; Thousands of nurses needed in workforce; Charlie Kimbell to run for lieutenant governor.

State investigating death of 34-year-old Newport prisoner; Opioid death toll could overtake the record set in 2020; Burlington’s 2 major parties vie for control of city council; Stowe board rejects parking lot proposal for ski area.

Essex-Westford school board member draws backlash for Holocaust comparison; Secret FBI statements in EB-5 case may be revealed; Legislature likely to begin 2022 session remotely; State has fewer than 80 Omicron-fighting doses of monoclonal antibodies.

Brattleboro discussing possibility of recommending or requiring proof of vaccination; High court blasts Department of Corrections for near ‘procedural mockery’ in furlough program; Who decides when a pandemic is over?; Florida man pleads not guilty to roadside fatal shooting in 2019.

Ex-cop accused of child sexual assault is dead; Medical procedures delayed during Covid-19 surge; NASA-funded weather project seeks help from citizen scientists; Vermont may become the first state to ban mercury-containing lighting.

Antigen test kits claimed within minutes; Hospitals and schools brace for Covid surge driven by holidays and Omicron; Senate to consider remote 2022 session; State issues fine against Vorsteveld farm for wetlands, runoff violations.

Burlington to interview police chief candidates without a recruiting firm, mayor says; Auditor Doug Hoffer critical of report on remote worker programs; State plans forest restoration at Milton Sandbar area; Ex-CNN producer accused of undercutting sexual abuse probe.