NASHUA – Democratic candidate for governor Dan Feltes visited three downtown Nashua businesses Wednesday as part of his "Main Street Walks" initiative, which he said highlights his "record looking out for working families and small businesses," while asserting that "under Donald Trump and ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) introduced two bipartisan bills to increase maternal vaccination rates and ensure that these vaccines are free of cost for Medicaid enrollees. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee ...
CONCORD – Born in Nashua, Gina Carr grew up in Merrimack and Litchfield, graduated from the University of New Hampshire then found her niche as a parent who loved teaching children to ski and, as a "gifted, respected" school paraprofessional, serving the needs of students with ...
Congresswoman Annie Kuster and Congressman Chris Pappas are announcing their recognition by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) Action Fund for their leadership on combating PFAS contamination. The EWG Action Fund last week released their report scoring every member of the U.S. House of ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan discussed the importance of strengthening the North Country economy and expanding affordable housing during a virtual tour of PAK Solutions in Lancaster. PAK Solutions is a manufacturer and distributer of flexible packaging products and employs 87 ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) the award of $557,000 in federal funding to the New ...
CONCORD - The GOFERR Legislative Advisory Board discussed the relief options for public schools needing to fill funding gaps left by FEMA. After the meeting, Senate Finance Chair Lou D’Allesandro (D-Manchester), who also serves on the Governor’s Office for Economic Relief and Recovery ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An invasive pest considered to be a threat to a variety agricultural, ornamental, and hardwood crops was found at a New Hampshire nursery and in two towns in eastern Massachusetts this month. Two dead specimens of the spotted lanternfly were identified in Milford and ...
WASHINGTON – As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) moratorium on debt collection ends soon, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) called on the agency this week to make every attempt to notify veterans of when it will resume collection of medical debt and inform them of their repayment ...
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced legislation with a group of lawmakers led by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) that would protect millions of unemployed or furloughed workers from losing their health insurance by enabling them to access subsidized ...
MANCHESTER - Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling on her to bring forward and pass a compromise COVID-19 relief package that provides direct support to small businesses, supports local law enforcement and public safety, bolsters our health care ...
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's hiking trails are packed and officials are urging people to be prepared when they venture onto the trails in the White Mountains and elsewhere as more calls have come in for help. "They're definitely on the increase," Lt. Adam Cheney of New Hampshire ...
RUMNEY — Meeting under social-distancing protocols at the Wade A. Reed Family Logging garage in Rumney, N.H., the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association (NHTOA) honored its 2020 award winners in a special ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, that had been delayed since May by the ...
WASHINGTON – Following efforts from U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has designated an Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Site at Isles of Shoals North, which will help serve Rye Harbor when it begins its dredging project this fall. Senator ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Nursing homes in New Hamsphire will be in charge of testing their staff for the coronavirus starting next month. The state Department of Health and Human Services has been operating a surveillance testing program in long term care facilities, but in mid-October will ...
MANCHESTER – U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen visited the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence in Concord. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, survivors of domestic and sexual violence have been among the most vulnerable populations due to stay-at-home orders and social distancing ...
Washington, DC - This week, multiple pieces of legislation backed by Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) to improve access to health care for Granite State veterans passed the House of Representatives. Kuster was a co-sponsor of the VA Mission Telehealth Clarification Act, which would improve ...
NASHUA – Melanie Levesque has received the endorsement of former President Barack Obama in her re-election campaign for New Hampshire State Senate (District 12). "As a former state legislator himself, President Obama recognizes the importance of electing strong leaders at the state level," ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man who discovered his wife was having an affair kidnapped and killed the other man and forced his wife to decapitate him, according to police who charged the husband with capital murder and the wife with falsifying evidence. In what one prosecutor ...
CONCORD, N.H (AP) — A federal jury began deliberating Friday in the case of a self-proclaimed white nationalist accused of threatening to rape the wife of a man who was part of a racist group he felt was harassing him. Christopher Cantwell, a New Hampshire resident and radio host who became ...
