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What if you could decide what stories Vermont Public Radio should be covering, before they're even assigned? That's the idea behind Brave Little State.
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Inside a cavernous redemption warehouse in the Upper Valley, customers come to exchange bottles and cans for coins — and to see bottle-sorte...

People love to highlight Vermont “firsts” — like, how we’re the first state to ban billboards and to approve civil unions. Or how we’re firs...

We all accumulate lots of … stuff. Increasingly, we’re cramming more of that stuff into self-storage facilities: those fields of metal locke...

This is a tale about what happens when a toxic industry booms and busts, the mess that’s left behind and the fight over how to clean it up....

Fire departments across the country are struggling to find volunteers. But in Norwich, new recruits are lining up. We spent a weekend at the...

Ice is unavoidable during winter on the Champlain Islands. Surrounded on all sides by an icy expanse, islanders embrace this seasonal terrai...

Vermont has among the weakest forms of county government in the United States, placing a big burden on towns. Is there a better way forward?...

The Vermont National Guard usually takes orders from the state. But at the end of 2025, President Trump deployed the Vermont guard to the Ca...

Today, the origin story of the Appalachian Trail, which stretches more than 2,000 miles from Maine to Georgia. But it was a peak in southern...

A few years ago, John Haffner was digging in his White River Junction backyard when his shovel hit a glass bottle buried underground. Then h...

Question-asker Manny recently got out of prison. He wants to learn about his options for transitional housing — a place where he could stay...

Rutland — or, “RutVegas” — gets a pretty bad rap outside the city’s limits. But some of Rutland’s most passionate cheerleaders say there’s a...

Leave your grocery store apples at home and join our search for this most unusual Vermont fruit. For photos from our journey, check out the...

For the 200th episode of the show, we set ourselves a challenge: take on 20 listener questions in a single episode. We went back to the very...

“There was this huge divide in, like, social grouping and connection … No one really talked to each other.” “Making friends at the high scho...

There are five Great Lakes: Superior, Ontario, Michigan, Huron and Erie. But for a few fleeting weeks in the late 1990s, Lake Champlain made...

We took a full-day detour to answer this question from Heather Channon of South Burlington: "Who is using all of the park-and-ride lots?" We...

Every summer, we add a new chapter to our favorite annual tradition: investigating the origins of Vermont’s strangest road names, as chosen...

Starting this summer, Vermont farmers are some of the first in the nation to face major restrictions on neonicotinoids — a kind of pesticide...

Today, we're sharing an episode of a podcast we really like. It's called Essential Salt , a show about connection, local storytelling and ho...
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