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The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Tuesday night approved the Manchester School District’s Fiscal Year 2026 general fund budget with the amount of $237,999,925.
Indictments issued for April covered a range of crimes from murder to first-degree assault charges, one involving the shooting of a Bedford police officer, who was shot in the leg with his own police-issued gun, and another where a man is accused of shooting his mother in the arm.
A plan to create a new bike lane out of an existing car lane on Pine Street from Bridge to Webster Street has been tabled by the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen Committee on Public Safety, Health and Traffic.
Members of the Manchester West High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Club are looking to get community help in their quest to afford the trip to the National FBLA Middle School and High School National Leadership Conference next month in California.
A group of state representatives gathered at the Somerville Street Manchester Fire Department Station on Tuesday night to provide Ward 7 residents with information about ongoing biennial state budget negotiations, any other state government-related topics on their minds and even a few topics not related to state government.
Manchester firefighters responded to a multi-vehicle crash after an electric vehicle lost control in a grocery store parking lot, crashing into several parked cars.
The parents and grandmother of five children found living in squalid in a Spruce Street apartment 3 ½ years ago are facing new charges.
On Tuesday, May 6, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen’s (BMA) Committee on Public Safety, Health and Traffic will discuss a long-awaited bike lane coming to Pine Street.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) will hold a Public Hearing to discuss the US Route 3/NH Route 28 project improvements between Alice Avenue and Whitehall Road.
Nursing students at Manchester Community College spent their 2024-2025 winter break running a mobile clinic in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic through the nonprofit Foundation for Peace.
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.
Residents living near a piece of property sold by the city last year gathered at the May 1st Manchester Planning Board meeting to voice their concerns about the subdivision request placed for that property.
Following variance approval from the Hooksett Zoning Board, Chelmsford Hooksett Properties LLC representative John Cronin took feedback from the Hooksett Planning Board regarding the proposed re-development of what could become up to 160 new units of housing at 2 College Park Dr.
The New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles is looking into issues with its new license design after complaints that state-issued identification was not being verified by the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) credential authentication system at airport security checkpoints.
The Zoning Board will meet on Wednesday, May 7 at 6 p.m.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte joined members of the New Hampshire Department of Safety this week to unveil a new donation program providing engines from retired state vehicles to high school automotive training programs, including Manchester School of Technology.
Outrage has been sparked in Manchester by a classroom activity conducted in concert with a lesson on the Holocaust. The activity, “The Wheel of Power and Privilege,” is meant to be a self-reflection on your own inherent power and privilege. People have suggested it’s wrong for students to feel “uncomfortable” in their classroom while discussing these things that are largely outside of their own control (race, religion, ability, etc.).
The City of Manchester Department of Public Works announced on May 1 that the South Manchester Rail Trail restoration project has been selected as the American Public Works Association (APWA) 2025 Public Works Historical Restoration/Preservation Project of the Year in the Less than $5 million division.
On May 5, at 6 p.m. there will be a listening session for residents of Manchester’s Ward 7 at Fire Station 7, at 679 Somerville St.
Although it is not in Ward 3, Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais will be holding a town hall meeting for Ward 3 at the Bishop O’Neil Youth Center on May 5.