VPR Morning Newscast for Friday, May 21.

VPR Evening Newscast for Thursday, May 20

VPR Midday Newscast for Thursday, May 20.

VPR Morning Newscast for Thursday, May 20.

Demand for high-quality mental health care has grown more urgent since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Calls for that support are growing louder in the Northeast Kingdom, where residents in a community organization say local and state mental health officials are not providing an adequate level of mental health care.

When the owners of a generations-old family business in Chester, Vermont announced they were shutting down last year, a local couple took a leap and decided to buy the store. Their story is the next in our series about businesses that have started or substantially changed during the pandemic.

VPR Evening Newscast for Wednesday, May 19

VPR Midday Newscast for Wednesday, May 19.

VPR Morning Newscast for Wednesday, May 19.

A lot of people grew hemp in 2019 , thinking there would be easy money to be made in the CBD industry. However, the market crashed that year due to oversupply, and the number of growers in Vermont has plummeted since then.