WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01), a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, issued the ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — People should be cautious about going out onto any ice, especially following the record rainfall recorded on Christmas Day, a New Hampshire Fish and Game Department official said. "With erratic temperatures, some areas of ice may look safe, but may not be," Col. Kevin ...
MANCHESTER – Police investigating the death of 69-year-old Cynthia Halloran, whose body was discovered the morning of Dec. 30 near a Youngsville Baseball Complex field off Londonderry Turnpike, are renewing their request for help from the public in tracing Halloran's whereabouts in the ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Gov. Chris Sununu is once again nominating Attorney General Gordon MacDonald as chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, this time under a GOP-led Executive Council that would have to approve his confirmation. The Republican governor said he plans to nominate ...
WASHINGTON – The president signed into law bipartisan legislation cosponsored by Senators Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen with a number of key priorities that they advocated for to support Granite State veterans. The package includes the Deborah Sampson Act that Senators Hassan and Shaheen ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today met virtually with President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Treasury, Janet Yellen. “As this pandemic continues to take a heavy toll on Granite Staters and our ...
HANOVER – U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster (NH-02) announced that CJ Wheelan, a senior at Hanover High School, has won the 2020 Congressional App Challenge for New Hampshire's Second District. The Congressional App Challenge is a national competition aimed at encouraging middle and high school students ...
CONCORD – Gov. Chris Sununu issued the following statement after the ACLU-NH, NHLA and DRC-NH announced a class action lawsuit in conjunction with a New York special interest group against the State of New Hampshire: "This lawsuit is led by Children's Rights Incorporated - a special ...
Pursuant to Part 2, Article 3 of the New Hampshire Constitution, the House will meet at 10 a.m. today at A-Lot parking area, at the University of New Hampshire. Press and members of the public will be allowed to attend. There will be an outdoor area to the right of the stage that will have ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire has "unnecessarily warehoused" foster care teens in institutional and group care facilities instead of with families and has not acted in their best interests, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed by several legal groups on Tuesday. In the ...
DANBURY, N.H. (AP) — A driver died after his vehicle struck a guardrail and trees, New Hampshire State Police said. The vehicle was traveling north on a road in Danbury at about 3 p.m. Monday when it veered off, then came back onto the road, police said. The driver, Kevin Ramsey, 43, ...
NASHUA – Baby Neely Ward – yes, he's named after the former Bruins star – won't know it for awhile yet, but his arrival at 12:32 a.m. New Years Day makes him the first baby born in Greater Nashua, and quite possibly in New Hampshire, in 2021. Neely's parents, Aran and Courtney Ward, ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sens. Susan Collins and Maggie Hassan say they've reversed a U.S. Department of Education decision that jeopardized funding for nearly 200 rural, low-income school districts. A provision that the senators negotiated prevents a funding cliff for the Rural Education ...
WASHINGTON – Today on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis, the U.S. Senate overrode the President’s veto to pass into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which includes key priorities that Senator Hassan introduced and championed to protect the national security ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Mount Washington Observatory is moving exhibits from its now-closed Weather Discovery Center in North Conway to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord. A few exhibits will move to the observatory's museum on top of the mountain, but most will find a new ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Changes to New Hampshire state laws on sexual assault take effect in the new year. Starting Jan. 1, the definition of sexual assault will be expanded to include any sexual contact between school employees and students between ages 13 and 18. The legislation was aimed at ...
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — A building fire destroyed old photos, magazine articles, and other memorabilia from the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association that were collected from the 97-year-old bike rally in New Hampshire. The office also lost its beloved mascot in the Christmas Day fire, a cat ...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan recognized the Gorham Middle & High School Sophomore Student Council as December's Granite Staters of the Month for choosing to resell surplus chocolate that they received to benefit their school's food pantry, rather than sell it to benefit their ...
WASHINGTON – The bipartisan DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act, which Senator Maggie Hassan cosponsored, is now law. The bill will ensure that personnel at the Department of Homeland Security have the tools that they need to more easily detect synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which are ...
CONCORD - Acting New Hampshire House of Representatives Speaker Sherman Packard (R-Londonderry) released details of the January 6th House session to state representatives yesterday. The event details were developed in coordination with and reviewed by several state and local agencies including ...
