As one of the few state lawmakers with young children, my efforts to set up our children and grandchildren for success are often met with resistance. Working parents of young children struggle for representation in our lawmaking process, making necessary economic progress infuriatingly slow. Fortunately, a working parent is running for governor: Jon Kiper.
The Mohawk Tannery/Fimbel Door project by Blaylock Holdings will build 546 housing units by 2030, after cleaning up a long-vacant toxic site along the Nashua River.
A private contractor doing work on the on-ramp to the F.E. Everett Turnpike struck a guardrail on the ramp from Ray Wieczorek Parkway leading onto the Everett northbound.
Mohammed Albehladli resigned as South Portland’s coordinator of diversity, equity and inclusion saying he felt his family was in danger after receiving a racist email from Ryan J. Murdough,
On Jan. 16 Hooksett Police Department received a call requesting a check on a residence on Merrimack Street over concerns for the living conditions and the welfare of the dogs inside.
A newly conserved 553 acres in Maine, near the New Hampshire border, puts another piece in place of a puzzle that comprises 68,000 acres across the two states designated for conservation.
Library teaming up with local organizations to help new residents feel connected and informed.
As the year comes to a close, the city of Nashua marks a turning point in its efforts to drive economic activity, especially to its downtown.
The $130 million project to remodel two of Nashua’s middle schools and build a new one is nearing completion — and is “on time and under budget,” according to city and district officials involved in the project.
“This is something to be thankful for. It makes me all warm inside,” said one of nearly 300 guests Tuesday at Harbor Care’s annual Thanksgiving Community Dinner.
Three people who police described “protestors voicing support for Palestine” were arrested Monday after a disturbance at a defense manufacturing company whose parent company is based in Israel.
As part of its continuing effort to inform community members, the Facilities Information and Communication Committee shares the following update on its work toward approval of the new South River Road Police and Fire Complex to meet Bedford’s long-term needs.
Members of the local recovery community say they’re increasingly accepting marijuana use as an important harm reduction strategy for people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Harm reduction is an approach to treating substance use disorder that aims to keep people who use drugs alive and as healthy as possible.
The satellite was launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission via Exolaunch on 11 November, 2023.
An Ellsworth police officer was one of several law enforcement officials notified of the Lewiston mass shooting suspect’s threats of violence in the months before he killed 18 people and injured 13 more at a bar and bowling alley last Wednesday.
Robert Card is dead. The suspect in a statewide manhunt connected to a mass shooting that left 18 people dead, Card’s body was recovered in Lisbon, Maine late Friday.
With the search for Robert Card now extending into a third day, investigators face a massive challenge: the suspect in Maine’s deadliest mass shooting has escaped in a state with an estimated 17.5 million acres of forest land and numerous rivers, vast expanses of uninhabited land dotted by small communities, farms, logging roads and two-lane highways.
In the past three years, state lawmakers have proposed nearly four dozen bills to regulate the sale, carry and liability of guns in Maine, but most have not passed the Legislature. A “yellow flag” law enacted in 2019 lets law enforcement take guns away from someone they suspect of posing a threat to themselves or others, but officials concede it is underutilized.
In the wake of shootings that left at least 18 dead in Maine’s second-largest city, local residents and officials expressed shock that the nation’s epidemic of mass shootings had come to their community and grappled to make sense of the past day’s events.
A manhunt involving at least 100 law enforcement personnel continues in Maine today in the wake of mass shootings in Lewiston Wednesday night that left at least 18 dead and 13 wounded.