As the website for Health Connect, Vermont’s new health insurance marketplace, becomes easier to navigate, employers and employees are finally getting a closer look at the way new policies will affect their pocketbooks.  For some, workplace insurance makes financial sense, but for others, it doesn’t.

Sen. Patrick Leahy is calling on the Obama Administration to improve its record on a number of key human rights issues.

Leahy says he’s concerned about the Administration’s use of military drones and its failure to block foreign aid to countries that abuse and murder innocent civilians.

Leahy outlined his critical view of the Obama Administration while delivering the keynote address at the First Human Rights Summit in Washington D.C.

Vermont has fallen well short of its goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the Agency of Natural Resources announced Thursday.

The state’s lawmakers set the goals in 2006 with optimistic legislation that laid out a timeline for the state’s greenhouse gas reductions. The legislature used 1990 emissions levels as a benchmark, calling for a 25 percent reduction from those levels by 2012, a 50 percent reduction by 2028 and a 75 percent reduction by 2050.

A Republican candidate who challenged Sen. Patrick Leahy in 2010 suffered another defeat this week when a judge ruled in favor of his former campaign manager.

According to the Vermont Superior Court decision, Len Britton’s 2010 Senate campaign was so low on funds in September of 2010 that Jeffrey Bartley decided he had to stop working or he wouldn’t be paid.

We’ve all heard about the glass ceiling. And the fact that there are fewer women in science, math, and engineering jobs. But that’s not just bad for women…it’s not so great for the economy either.

The South Burlington School Board is appealing a decision by the state environmental court that allowed a drug treatment center to stay open, WCAX reports.

Wednesday night the South Burlington School board voted to pursue an appeal with the state Supreme Court to keep the clinic away from the city's schools.

The results of a survey taken by the Town of Eden are in and if one conclusion can be drawn, it's that residents have mixed feelings about a proposed wind project in town.

The survey was distributed in property tax bills, and was also accessible via the town website. A total of 133 responses were returned to the town, representing about 10 percent of the town's total population.

An expansion of Vermont’s network of Federally Qualified Community Health Centers will add more than 30 thousand patients to the rolls of those being served.

Three new centers are opening in Bristol, Randolph and Arlington.

The Battenkill Valley Health Center in Arlington, which is expected to open in January, is the first of Vermont’s 11 centers to be located in Bennington County.

Beth Wennar, who serves on the center’s board says the facility will fill a critical need.