Peter D'Auria

Earlier this year, amid concerns over the nonprofit’s performance, Vermont’s Department of Mental Health awarded a key grant to a different organization — for the first time in decades.

Different regulatory environments in the two states have led to contrasting situations on either side of Lake Champlain.

Last month, the University of Vermont Health Network announced a slate of wide-ranging cuts to its Vermont facilities. Those cuts — which drew a swift and furious outcry — included closing an inpatient psychiatric unit at Central Vermont Medical Center, ending kidney transplants at the University of Vermont Medical Center, and shuttering a primary care clinic in Waitsfield.

A new lawsuit alleges that the Department for Children and Families took extreme and illegal actions to monitor a pregnant woman without her knowledge and secure custody of her newborn — part of what the ACLU calls a “broader, troubling pattern.”

New faces and expanded substance disorder treatment gives lawmakers the sense something is going right.

The Vermont Department for Children and Families went to extraordinary and illegal lengths to remove a child from its mother’s custody, aided by an internal program that monitors the pregnancies of multiple Vermonters, a new lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont alleges.

Two state lawmakers sued the governor last year, after he appointed Zoie Saunders to serve as an interim Secretary of Education after she was rejected for the job by the Vermont Senate.

Of the 30,000 Vermonters who purchased individual health insurance plans on the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace in 2024, 27,000 received tax credits to help pay for those plans, according to one advocacy group.

The Vermont Department for Children and Families went to extraordinary and illegal lengths to remove a child from its mother’s custody, aided by an internal program that monitors the pregnancies

UVM Health Network declined to release individual figures, but said 19 top executives made a total of $3 million in “variable pay” last year — payments that came amid a series of service cuts across the network.