Burlington

Three people are recovering from severe injuries after their hot air balloon crashed into a train in Burlington.

Officials at a suburban Chicago high school have denounced a student’s prom proposal that contained a racist comment, but some students and parents want the district to go farther in their response to the incident.

A possible tornado struck the Kane County village of Burlington Monday, uprooting trees and downing power lines throughout the community. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos reports.

North Beach in Burlington, where the temperature hit 90 Thursday, was the place to cool off in Lake Champlain, play some games and even get your COVID-19 vaccine.

A college student from Burlington, Connecticut, wanted to say thank you to all the health care workers who are working day and night to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic and he did so by creating a beautiful tribute for the entire town to see. Kevin Kryzwick, a 21-year-old Fairfield University student, painted an American flag, a health care worker…

The police chief in Vermont’s largest city has resigned after his lying about his secret social media use came to light.

The police chief in Vermont’s largest city turned in his badge Monday following an episode involving secret social media use and lies about it — only for the newly appointed acting chief to be replaced over a similar issue.

Jake Burton Carpenter, the pioneer who brought snowboarding to the masses and helped turn the sport into a billion-dollar business and Olympic showpiece, has died at 65. He died Wednesday night in Burlington, Vermont, according to an email sent to the staff of the company he founded. Carpenter had emailed his staff this month saying, “You will not believe this,...

Ben & Jerry’s is facing a lawsuit accusing the ice cream maker and its parent company of false advertising by saying the milk and cream in its products comes from “happy cows.” In a complaint filed Oct. 31 in federal court in Burlington, Vermont, where Ben & Jerry’s was founded, environmental advocate James Ehlers accuses the company and Unilever of...

A worker died Thursday in a chemical incident at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Burlington, Massachusetts. Ten other people were sickened. Interim Burlington Fire Chief Michael Patterson said Super 8, a common sanitation product, was being used to clean the floor when people inside the restaurant became sick. Fire crews responded around 5:30 p.m. to find a male worker who...

The developer of a school-shooting video game is vowing to continue selling it online as parents of slain children and other mass shooting victims work to get the game wiped off the internet. The “Active Shooter” game was created by Anton Makarevskiy, a 21-year-old developer from Moscow, Russia, and is being marketed by his entity Acid Software. Acid said in...

Thirteen dogs died after they were trapped in a fire Saturday evening in Hampshire.

The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream knew he was disturbing the peace with a noisy demonstration against fighter jets. Cohen was one of three activists arrested for disorderly conduct Saturday after blasting jet noise from a mobile public address system in Burlington, Vermont. Cohen said the goal was to simulate what it might be like for residents living...

A New Jersey woman was asked to leave the Metropolitan Museum of Art last weekend after a security guard mistakenly thought she stole clothing from the museum’s Costume Institute, according to a published report.

Burton designed NASA-inspired apparel for the freestyle snowboarders of Team USA.

The bitter cold that followed a massive East Coast snowstorm should begin to lessen as temperatures inch up and climb past freezing next week, weather forecasters said. Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said temperatures Sunday morning could hit record lows from South Carolina to Maine. But he said the...

At least 25 transgender people in the United States have been homicide victims so far this year, the highest annual total on record, according to advocacy groups that have been monitoring the grim phenomenon and seeking ways to reduce the toll. The Human Rights Campaign, in a report released Friday, calculated that 102 transgender people have been killed in the...

A 19-year-old New Jersey man and his 28-year-old girlfriend have been indicted for allegedly forcing a 17-year-old girl into prostitution at local motels, where she was sometimes made to sleep with up to five men a day, and snort crystal methamphetamine, authorities said Tuesday.

As waters continue to rise along the Fox River, several areas in the Chain O’Lakes waterway system are at serious risk of flooding in the coming days.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addressed supporters Thursday night, explaining why he’s against Donald Trump and the issues he’d like to see addressed in the Democratic Party platform at the convention.