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An AMR ambulance on a call was flagged down for an accident with serious injuries at Union and Hanover streets Thursday afternoon
A public hearing on a proposed 34-unit tiny home development Wednesday night drew a large, loud and hostile crowd – too much for the Planning Board to accommodate – prompting the board to postpone the meeting until May 13.
In late 2024, the Revo Casino came to the Manchester Zoning Board of Adjustment and Manchester Planning Board with requests to create a brand new, larger casino on the footprint of its current building and two adjacent lots. This month, representatives of the casino returned with slight modifications as well as support for renovating a neighboring property.
New Hampshire’s labor market weakened in 2025. Employers filled fewer jobs than they did during the previous year, the number of employed Granite Staters remained relatively flat, unemployment increased compared to the last year, and average private-sector wage growth did not keep up with inflation.
I was at Manchester High School West when the Students for Environmental Action (SEA) extracurricular club spearheaded the school’s first recycling initiative for plastic bottles and aluminum cans. I don’t recall if it included glass, such as the many Yoohoo and Snapple beverage bottles I purchased from the cafeteria’s vending machines.
Three Manchester police officers involved in the shooting death of a 24-year-old man nearly five months ago have been back to their regular patrol jobs for months even though the attorney general has yet to determine if their use of deadly force was justified.
You have probably heard a lot about the tax cap in the last few weeks, and you will likely hear even more about it in the coming weeks. As the city works through its budget, the tax cap shapes what can grow, what gets cut and what gets pushed off another year. So it is worth asking what it actually is and what it actually does.
The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen did not vote upon the Fiscal Year 2027 budget amounts for the City of Manchester and the Manchester School District during their April 21 meeting, but a vote appears to be likely soon, given some of the comments made during the meeting.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) will be closing Exit 2 on-ramp from Hooksett Road to Route 101 Westbound in Auburn, from Sunday evening April 26, 2026, to Friday May 1, 2026.
The City of Manchester on Tuesday announced an enhanced partnership with the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester (MHCGM) to strengthen the City’s response to homelessness, substance use disorder, and co-occurring mental health challenges.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) will be installing new overhead sign structures on the F.E. Everette Turnpike. These structures are located both north and south of the Bedford tolls. This work is to take place at night from Monday, April 27, 2026, to Wednesday, April 29, 2026.
Two years ago, town meeting voters approved an ordinance that opens the door to a type of workforce housing the town has never seen – a grouping of smaller homes, sharing some utilities, and available for rent, not purchase.
Dozens of company representatives and recruiters from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine will be on campus April 27 as part of the Automated Manufacturing Job Fair.
If you were out in Center City on April 20 you might have noticed a lot of activity. Monday marked the second year of SEE Science Center’s Park2Park Clean-up event, a collaborative effort between the Science Center, Manchester Connects, and the City of Manchester Parks, Recreation, and Cemetery Division, to prepare our city parks and the streets in between for Earth Day activities.
Since 2000, the Manchester Urban Ponds Restoration Program has coordinated 124 volunteer cleanups at Manchester’s urban ponds. Other groups have coordinated 15 additional cleanups at the urban ponds / or have been assisted by the Program in doing so. Thus, a total of 139 volunteer cleanups have occurred at Manchester’s urban ponds.
New Hampshire has always stood for something simple and powerful: local control, fiscal responsibility, and the freedom to make our own choices.
That’s exactly why a proposed constitutional amendment to permanently ban a state income tax is the wrong move—especially for cities like Manchester.
Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais released his Fiscal Year 2027 budget proposals for the Manchester School District and City of Manchester last month and, as part of the usual budget process, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen have been given requests to change the mayor’s proposed budget from the city government’s department heads.
A New York resident was indicted for fraudulently obtaining approximately $167,000 worth of groceries from Hannaford Supermarkets.
The Foundation for New Hampshire Community Colleges (The Foundation), a charitable organization dedicated to supporting NH’s seven community colleges, awarded a record-breaking 1,650 scholarships totaling $1.1 million during the 2025–26 academic year. This represents the highest number of scholarships awarded in the organization’s 25-year history.
A former Manchester West High School ROTC teacher was sentenced to 13 ½ years in federal prison for attempting to sex traffic a 12-year-old.