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Updated: 4 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
WCAX updates the latest coronavirus statistics, offers links to social services and a collection of all coronavirus stories filed since the beginning of the pandemic on this page, as part of our commitment to service with the latest and best public health information all in one place.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By Kelly O'Brien
A letter from a Plattsburgh landlord is stirring up controversy online. Channel 3′s Kelly O’Brien spoke with a tenant who received a letter encouraging them to vote for the GOP candidate for mayor.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By Christina Guessferd
Three candidates -- two seats. Channel 3′s Christina Guessferd digs into the races for Vermont’s attorney general and secretary of state.
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By Olivia Lyons
Vermont’s Act 46 is designed to improve educational opportunities and promote equity across the state by creating larger school districts. While the 2015 law has worked for some districts, others have resisted the mergers.
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Updated: 6 hours ago
|By Calvin Cutler
A new law strengthens labor unions in Vermont, but some worry that it could come at the cost of privacy for some
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy took to the Senate floor Wednesday to call for comprehensive legislation.
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By Dom Amato
Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal criminal charges as part of an $8 billion settlement.
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By Adam Sullivan
An increase in COVID-19 cases throughout the region, and the rest of the country, is causing concern for New Hampshire citizens, business owners, and those on the front lines of the pandemic.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
A Burlington man is facing charges of trying to meet a child for sex.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
The city school board Tuesday approved a resolution to drop the nickname and the arrowhead symbol that goes along with it.
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Updated: 8 hours ago
|By Ike Bendavid
With the holidays around the corner and colder weather approaching, state officials are warning Vermonters not to get complacent when it comes to the coronavirus. Our Ike Bendavid hit Church Street to gauge the level of what has come to be known as “COVID fatigue.”
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
What’s coming up on “You Can Quote Me” October 25, 2020
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By Scott Fleishman
While there may be different ways for kids to get their Halloween candy this year, the fact that people are still excited to have some fun despite health and safety restrictions is pretty sweet.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says students learning remotely coronavirus pandemic can still vote in their college towns if they previously established residency in the state.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is easing restrictions slightly in some coronavirus hot spots in New York City, but adding them in areas along the Pennsylvania border as the state recorded more than 2,000 new infections in a single day for the first time since mid-May.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
Cat Viglienzoni spoke with Seven Days' Ken Picard who reported this week on the preliminary findings of a UVM study.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
A new study out from Champlain College finds despite the pandemic, politics, and social turmoil, most Americans remain optimistic about the future.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
This week is “Black in Cardio” Week. It celebrates Black leaders in cardiovascular research and incorporates a social media challenge for participants to raise awareness about cardiovascular diseases in the Black community.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
The first COVID-19 case involving a student has been reported at Northern Vermont University, according to school officials.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
Authorities say a deadly fire in Essex County, New York, over the weekend was caused by cooking grease that ignited.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
Two Barre Police officers were injured Tuesday after they were attacked after responding to call.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Crime victims will not have their testimony broadcast online without their consent under new court rules in New Hampshire aimed at balancing public health and public access to jury trials during the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By Adam Sullivan
Voter confusion in New Hampshire over absentee ballots known as “Sharpie gate” is being cleared up.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Two small Maine-based marijuana businesses are suing the agency that oversees recreational marijuana operations, arguing state licenses were illegally awarded to out-of-state owners.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The Vermont Labor Department says the state’s unemployment rate dipped slightly to 4.2% in September.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By Kevin Gaiss
The Sara Holbrook Community Center has been providing full-day child support during the pandemic, but now that the Burlington School District is transitioning to four days of in-person learning, the center will restart their after-school programs next week.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By Calvin Cutler
Vermont officials Tuesday said $76 million more in small business grants are coming to the hardest hit by the pandemic.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
A new study on the antiviral drug Remdesivir found it fails to stop COVID-19 deaths. But Vermont’s health commissioner is saying it’s not a complete failure.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
More than 100 SUNY Plattsburgh students are in quarantine after a spike in COVID cases in Clinton County.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
A fire at a building in West Rutland is now being called suspicious. It happened on Main Street Saturday.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
Police are looking for two people from Swanton accused of animal cruelty.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By Erin Brown
As the Burlington School District continues contemplating what’s next for Burlington High School following its sudden closure last month because of PCB contamination, students are weighing in.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By WCAX News Team
Authorities say a man who was shot by a Thornton police officer on Monday died at the scene.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 7:12 PM EDT
|By Kelly O'Brien
A man who claims he was assaulted by police after his arrest in 2017, has now added the Plattsburgh Police chief to the lawsuit he filed this summer against five other officers.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 6:49 PM EDT
|By Olivia Lyons
It’s a job responsible for billions of public dollars and one you don’t hear much about. The state treasurer is an elected office and long-time incumbent Beth Pearce is facing a challenger this year.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 5:33 PM EDT
|By Adam Sullivan
Police say a string of drug arrests in the Upper Valley highlights the unintended consequences of the pandemic.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 5:22 PM EDT
|By WCAX News Team
Darren Perron spoke with Kerry Goulette with the Community Health Centers of Burlington, about how they are taking some of their homeless services directly to those in need.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 4:52 PM EDT
|By Ike Bendavid
The U.S Supreme Court has signaled a warning to Vermont’s highest court in rejecting to take up a case involving deer poaching and privacy rights.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 4:02 PM EDT
|By Cat Viglienzoni
Vermont’s ever-shrinking travel map got a little bit smaller Tuesday as state officials further limited the number of people allowed to travel to the state without quarantining. State officials also offered a warning for what that means for the holidays.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 3:14 PM EDT
|By WCAX News Team
Congressman Peter Welch was in South Burlington Tuesday to advocate for additional federal COVID relief funds.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 2:29 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The rate of COVID-19 infections has risen enough in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut to require residents of those states to quarantine if they travel to New York.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 2:23 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Vermont State Police say a fugitive wanted for questioning in the killing of a Connecticut woman was caught trying to cross the U.S.-Canadian border on foot in Vermont.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 2:19 PM EDT
|By WCAX News Team
Norwich University students have come together to collaborate, design, and build an award-winning project at Union Elementary School in Montpelier.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 2:05 PM EDT
|By WCAX News Team
Cat Viglienzoni spike with Lori Glaze, the director of the Planetary Science Mission Directorate at NASA about the mission.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 1:46 PM EDT
|By WCAX News Team
Dom Amato spoke with Sheriff Mark Anderson about the new EV pilot project.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 1:25 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Bennington's application to be a designated Appalachian trail community has been approved, which could mean more hikers and visitors.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 11:53 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
Vermont State Police say a Burlington police officer has been cited to appear in court on suspicion of trespassing into a woman’s home while off-duty.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 11:46 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
Officials in the Vermont town of Clarendon are looking for the driver of a box truck that damaged a covered bridge by hitting the overhead beams when passing through it.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 11:38 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
The second of two gubernatorial debates within 13 hours explored one candidate’s lack of leadership experience and the other’s loyalty to the nation’s leader.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 11:33 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
The attorney general’s office has fined a New Hampshire restaurant where at least 17 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak.