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1 week ago | 
vnews.com | Peter D’Auria
E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Photos Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Rep. Alyssa Black, D-Essex, fourth from left, speaks with Rep.
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3 weeks ago | 
vnews.com | Peter D’Auria
E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Photos Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Don George, president and CEO of BlueCross BlueShield Vermont, listens during a roundtable on health care costs hosted by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, in Burlington on Friday, May 31, 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
vtcng.com | Peter D’Auria
Two Vermont health insurance companies are seeking higher premiums for plans bought on the state marketplace in 2026, requests that come amid rapidly rising health care costs statewide. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont is seeking to raise the cost of its premiums by an average of 23.3 percent for individual plans and 13.7 percent for small group plans on the state health insurance exchange next year.
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4 weeks ago | 
vnews.com | Peter D’Auria
Over the past several months, Vermont lawmakers and state officials have been preoccupied with the fate of the state’s largest health insurance company. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, the Vermont-based member of the nationwide health insurance organization, is also the only health insurance company based in Vermont. The nonprofit covers roughly a third of the state’s population across all its plans.
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1 month ago | 
vnews.com | Peter D’Auria
Two days before she was killed in November, allegedly at the hands of her son, Montpelier resident Mary Gomes made multiple calls to a local mental health agency about him — but an employee declined to visit her home, a new lawsuit alleges. The allegation was raised in a wrongful termination suit filed last week in Washington County Superior Court by Jordan Houston, a former employee of Washington County Mental Health Services.
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1 month ago | 
vnews.com | Peter D’Auria
E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Photos Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Seth Brunell frowns as he listens to testimony during his murder trial in Lamoille County Superior criminal court in Hyde Park on Tuesday, April 15. Brunell is accused of killing Fern Feather in 2022.
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1 month ago | 
vnews.com | Peter D’Auria
E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Photos Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles By PETER D’AURIA VTDigger Published: 05-01-2025 10:00 AM The president of the state employees union accused the Vermont Department for Children and Families of retaliating against her after she spoke out about a new return-to-office policy — retribution that, she said, included secretly filming her during a remote staff meeting. Aimee Bertrand, the president of the...
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1 month ago | 
vnews.com | Peter D’Auria
Seth Brunell, who was charged with second-degree murder in the 2022 killing of Hinesburg, Vt., transgender woman Fern Feather, reached a surprise plea deal Thursday midway through his trial. Under the terms of the deal, Brunell will plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter and will serve a decade of probation but no additional prison time. He has been jailed since his arrest in 2022, as his trial has been repeatedly delayed.
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1 month ago | 
vtcng.com | Peter D’Auria
Seth Brunell, who was charged with second-degree murder in the 2022 killing of Hinesburg transgender woman Fern Feather, reached a surprise plea deal Thursday midway through his trial. Under the terms of the deal, Brunell will plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter and will serve a decade of probation but no additional prison time. He has been jailed since his arrest in 2022, as his trial has been repeatedly delayed.
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1 month ago | 
vtcng.com | Peter D’Auria
Prosecutors and defense attorneys offered competing narratives of the 2022 killing of Fern Feather, a Hinesburg transgender woman, as the trial of suspect Seth Brunell began Tuesday. Brunell, 46, has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Feather in Morristown three years ago. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.
