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New Hampshire State Representative Kathleen Paquette has announced that she will run this fall for the Ward 5 Aldermanic seat being vacated by incumbent Ward 5 Alderman Tony Sapienza.
A man covered in blood ran out of a Union Street apartment building early Tuesday morning yelling for someone to call police, that he had just killed someone, a witness told reporters.
A city man was sentenced to 45 years to life in the death of his 7-year-old son Jaevion Riley who died after he burned him over more than 15 percent of his body, beat him so badly he suffered a skull fracture and broken tooth, and whipped him with an electrical cord over several days in January 2023.
The investigation was initiated after Manchester Police received a 911 call for assistance at a residence on Union Street on Tuesday. Responding officers discovered an adult male deceased inside an apartment.
New Hampshire is represented in the 119th Congress by Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan in the US Senate, Chris Pappas (NH-01), and Maggie Goodlander (NH-92) in the House of Representatives. Below are notifications about some of their legislative activities from the past week.
President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Budget” spells disaster for the working middle class and the poor. The people that most desperately need support in food (SNAP), affordable housing, reasonably priced healthcare, and more.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) will begin striping for a new phase of construction on the F.E. Everett Turnpike Northbound and Southbound just North of the Bedford tolls starting Tuesday, May 27, 2025, through Wednesday 28, 2025.
Earlier this month, developers seeking to construct a seven-story, 51-unit multi-family mixed-use building at 1308 Elm St., the current location of the North End Superette, were granted variances from the city’s zoning ordinances from the Manchester Zoning Board of Adjustment for minimum buildable lot area and infringement on the required visual clearance area on a corner lot within the city’s Central Business District.
On Wednesday, May 21; the Manchester Board of School Committee’s Committee on Education Legislation held a discussion relating to an injunction around what has become known as the “Dear Colleague Letter.”
The New Hampshire Department of Education made the announcement Friday. The teachers were selected from a total of 105 nominees and 29 applicants.
During their Tuesday, May 20th meeting, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) Committee on Accounts and Administration voted to recommend that a question be put to the voters this fall on whether the Manchester School District (MSD) should be a department of the city government. However, it remains to be seen what exactly that will mean.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte on Thursday signed into law NH House Bill 511 and NH Senate Bill 62 which ban sanctuary cities and support cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
Police are asking the public’s help in finding the driver of a vehicle – possibly a silver SUV – that left a man unconscious and injured on Tuesday.
According to a police narrative of the incident, on May 2, 2025, at approximately 1 a.m., a ShotSpotter aler — an acoustic gunshot detection system used by the city — was triggered in the area of 429 Wilson Street. As officers responded, dispatch received a separate 911 call reporting that a person had been shot.
The public session had a diverse array of approx. 20 speakers, from age 7 (with her father) to 65 (at least), who spoke in favor of the Pine Street paving with the addition of a bike lane.
Derry Police along with the state Attorney General’s office are jointly investigating a homicide.
Chief Daniel Douidi reports that the Bedford Police Department successfully returned $17,500 to an elderly resident after an investigation into a report of computer fraud.
During the new business period of the May 20th Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting, Ward 5 Alderman Tony Sapienza announced that he will not be seeking to run for a seventh term later this year.
On Monday, May 19th, the Manchester Fire Department gifted a sport utility vehicle to HOPE for NH Recovery to assist individuals living in the city with substance use disorder seeing recovery services.
