MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont lawmakers Tuesday unanimously signed off on a pledge of support for the transgender and nonbinary communities. The Senate approved a joint resolution that ...

PEQUOT LAKES — Nicole (Nicky) Hardy, Pequot Lakes, announced on Tuesday, March 25 her candidacy for Minnesota Senate District 6 as a member of the DFL. Hardy is a native Minnesotan, a mother, a ...

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Ruth Hardy, of East Middlebury, who is a state senator from Addison County and the former executive director of Emerge Vermont. To say last week was ...

Sen. Ruth Hardy, D-Addison, who presented the bill to colleagues on the Senate floor, began by recalling how, upon arriving in Vermont 21 years ago, she had begun to look for child care — before ...

The Vermont Senate has rejected Governor Phil Scott’s appointment of Zoie Saunders to serve as the state’s Education Secretary. But the governor says Saunders will remain in the role.

Vermont elected a Democratic senator on Tuesday — only the second time in the state's history. Rep. Peter Welch is slated for a promotion to the U.S. Senate after running away with a Tuesday ...

Vermont will send its first woman to Congress as its current Congressman heads to the U.S. Senate. Vermont Congressman Peter Welch is now Senator-elect. Unofficial results from the Secretary of ...

Vermont Sen. Peter Welch on Wednesday became the first Democratic senator to call on President Joe Biden to step aside as the party’s presidential nominee.

On Monday, April 8, Vermont’s long-serving state senator, Dick Mazza, resigned from his post effective immediately, citing “health reasons.” Prior to stepping down, Mazza, a Democrat, had ...

A state senator who says the story of her grandfather’s murder during the Holocaust galvanizes her will be the Democratic candidate for Vermont’s single seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Vermont Senate approves resolution to support trans, ... The measure was sponsored by Sen. Ruth Hardy, ... Boy discovers human remains near national park visitor center while on family vacation.