What Is Vermont Public and What Can You Find on Its Site?

Vermont Public is Vermont's unified source for NPR and PBS programming, combining national broadcasts with local, award-winning news, education, events, music, arts, and entertainment. Its site is useful if you want to follow Vermont news, listen to local shows and daily newscasts, or look up election information such as who is on your ballot and where to vote.

What Vermont Public covers

The organization describes itself as a source for NPR and PBS programming alongside local content, with a mission to foster dialogue and connection between people. In practice, the homepage mixes national public media with Vermont-focused reporting and storytelling.

Content areas visible on the site include:

• Local news — state politics, housing, affordability, energy, schools, and community stories
• Audio — local shows, daily newscasts, and episodes with listen times
• Election coverage — candidate guides, polling, and debate schedules
• Culture and lifestyle — books, music, arts, food, and seasonal features
• Video — clips and series from Vermont Public

How to find news, shows, and podcasts

The homepage surfaces a "Latest Episodes" section and a "Latest Newscast" block, so you can start listening without searching. Each item shows a listen time, such as 6:14 for The Frequency: Daily Vermont News or 1:51 for the local morning newscast.

To go broader, use BROWSE ALL NEWS to see the full news feed rather than only the homepage highlights. Local shows are grouped under an "ALL LOCAL SHOWS" listing, which is the place to look for recurring programs rather than one-off stories.

A practical way to use the site: skim the homepage for headlines, open the newscast for a daily summary, then browse all news when you want a specific topic. For example, if you need to understand a state policy debate, start with the newscast for context and follow the linked local news story for detail.

Election resources for 2026

Vermont voters head to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 3 for competitive statewide, legislative, and county-wide races, plus two proposed constitutional amendments. The site gathers election material in one place at vermontpublic.org/election.

Available resources include:

If your goal is simply to confirm your ballot and polling place, the candidate guide is the direct route. If you want to follow the races more closely, the poll and debate schedule add context.

Local features and storytelling

Beyond hard news, the site carries Vermont-specific features. Examples from the homepage include a report on horse logging as a 200-year Vermont tradition, a profile of author Dana Mashoian Walrath and her disaster comic The Book of Genocides, and a guide to Vermont Public's 10 favorite fall foliage drives, updated for 2026 with routes and suggested stops.

There are also practical and cultural pieces, such as trying three kale varieties for cool-weather gardens, a schoolteacher-musician drawing on family mythology in a new song, and a folk and classical music evening tied to nature themes. A "Made Here" series covers scientists and discovery in Lake Champlain, and local reporting notes that Vermont will restore fire towers on Spruce and Elmore mountains using helicopters this fall.

These features are useful if you want a sense of place rather than breaking news — for instance, planning a fall drive or finding local music events.

When Vermont Public is the right source

Choose Vermont Public if you want Vermont-focused public media in one place: NPR and PBS programming, local newscasts, and election tools. It is less suited to national breaking news beyond public media coverage or to non-Vermont local reporting.

Start with the homepage for a quick scan, use the election page during campaign season, and browse all news when you need to dig into a specific Vermont topic.