Two Vermont utilities signed an agreement Thursday on a 26-year deal to buy power from Canadian provincial utility Hydro-Quebec, replacing contracts that expire beginning in 2012. The deal is among Green Mountain Power Corp., Central Vermont Public Service Corp. and Montreal-based Hydro-Quebec, which already provides about one-third of Vermont's electricity ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - American writer Howard Frank Mosher says he can't resist a good story and it was this that led him to his latest and 10th novel. Much of Mosher's fiction takes place in the mid-20th Century and in his home state of Vermont, such a "A Stranger In The Kingdom," "Disappearance" and "Where the Rivers Flow ...

In their annual town meeting on Tuesday, folks in this Vermont ski town voted on a town budget, debated the need for a new roof on the fire department building and adjourned at lunchtime to nosh on Tracey Coutts' famous "yummy chicken pieces" casserole and cherry ...

State legislators in the following states have proposed bills to ban credit checks on most job applicants, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures: _ Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Wisconsin States that already ban credit checks on most ...