A Burlington park ranger stopped by the Seven Days office with a story tip about homelessness. Reporter Derek Brouwer turned the tipster into the story.

Burlington’s most beloved roadie trafficked in tales of adventure and street wisdom gleaned from his life on the road and was like a second father to at-risk youth.

While writer Alison Novak was on a family trip in Bangkok, she received an email that became national news and changed the trajectory of her cover story.

Reporter Chelsea Edgar doesn’t believe Vermont’s beloved creemee is beyond reproach. In fact, there are a few more hater’s guides she’d like to write.

The Vermont author, poet and “warrior scholar” penned the definitive book on LSD. He traveled far and wide but was always drawn back to life on the family farm.

While reporting on Vermont’s newest representatives, Statehouse writer Hannah Bassett discovered one using ChatGPT to make sense of a high-profile bill.

Seeing original movies in theaters keeps getting harder, but Vermont’s festivals and art houses expand the options. Here are some of our favorite 2025 films ...

A story about Trump’s ban on South Sudanese passport holders was ready to go to press — and then a last-minute twist caused writer Courtney Lamdin to scramble.

From a clever Weybridge farmer to a beloved rock-and-roll roadie in Burlington to a pioneering trans-rights advocate, they reflect what it is to be a Vermonter.

Here are seven artists — painters, sculptors, a photographer and a papermaker — whose work stood out in the group shows we covered this year.

It was difficult for writer Alison Novak to finagle an interview with Education Secretary Zoie Saunders, who eventually relented but still resisted opening up.

Writer Colin Flanders began to reconsider his own relationship to alcohol while reporting about Vermont’s booze problem.