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A Concord man was indicted on two counts of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 60-year-old man in a Union Street apartment last May.
Mayor Jay Ruais and challenger, School Board Committewoman Jess Spillers, met Oct. 28 at the Manchester City Library auditorium for a spirited, issue-driven forum moderated by Manchester Ink Link Assistant Editor Andrew Sylvia, covering topics from homelessness and housing to school funding, decorum at City Hall, and property taxes.
Merrimack Police Department on Thursday issued an alert seeking the public’s help in locating a missing 16-year-old female named Molly Roy.
This week, former Alderman and Board of School Committee Member Rich Girard announced that he will be running a write-in campaign for mayor in the final week before the city’s 2025 municipal election.
The New Hampshire contingency plan will take about a week to put into place, officials said. New Hampshire Food Bank officials met later Wednesday to nail down details of how the plan will work.
A city man was given a suspended sentence in the killing of a 5-month-old puppy after he pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony count of animal cruelty.
Still, William Farnsworth, 32, was led away in handcuffs from a Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District court because he also pleaded guilty to possession of more than five grams of fentanyl. That resulted in Judge Amy Messer sentencing him to 1 ½ to 7 years in the New Hampshire State Prison.
One of the toughest nuts to crack in the struggle to increase affordable housing in New Hampshire is access to water and sewer infrastructure that would allow more density. Understanding where that that infrastructure is and how it interacts with zoning just got easier with the latest addition to the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 298, representing over 225 City of Manchester employees, has endorsed Dana Dexter for Ward 3 Alderman, citing his respect for public service and commitment to fair, effective city government.
With municipal and special elections just a week away, New Hampshire Secretary of State David M. Scanlan reminds voters and those eligible to register to vote of the requirements.
New Hampshire is the only New England state that has not joined a group of 26 in a suit filed Tuesday against the federal government over it’s refusal to use a contingency fund to pay Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits beginning Saturday.
The first step toward providing some relief for the state’s more than 75,000 SNAP recipients was taken Tuesday as the Legislative Fiscal Committee unanimously approved a contingency plan that will provide funding to shore up food bank resources.
In a presentation during the Oct. 27 Manchester Board of School Committee meeting, Manchester School District Executive Director of Technology Stephen Cross and Manchester School District Executive Director of Technology and Data Kelly Jobel explained that Manchester’s public schools currently have more Chromebooks than students. However, now the question is what is the best way to maximize the educational value of those devices.
Three prominent Manchester Democrats gathered at Arms Park on the morning of Oct. 28 for a press conference intended to remind voters about the policies and beliefs of recently announced Republican U.S. Senate candidate, John E. Sununu.
I will be opposing HB 639, the so-called “cryptocurrency freedom” bill now before the Senate. Despite its libertarian rhetoric of innovation and “financial opportunity,” the measure is a blueprint for deregulation that would invite precisely the abuses and inequalities that scholar Finn Brunton warns of in his recent New York Times essay on the true nature of cryptocurrency.
A 34-year-old city drug dealer, found guilty of selling fentanyl to one man who, in turn, sold it to a third man who died of an overdose, was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years in prison.
Derry police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a woman whose body was discovered Monday afternoon behind a Birch Street business.
Members of the Saint Anselm College community gathered to break ground on the Van Hoof Athletic Complex on Oct. 10.
It’s crunch time for the more than 75,000 New Hampshire residents who rely on SNAP benefits to put food on the table, as the federal shutdown is likely to continue into November and the government refuses to release a reserve fund that would help keep benefits going for two or three weeks.