MERRIMACK – After putting $1,000 in the hands of every American each month and combating climate change, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Wednesday told Merrimack voters that his next top priority would be universal health care. Yang said Americans are spending twice as much ...

NASHUA – Arkansas, Missouri and West Virginia – which are considered “red states” because of the relatively strong support Republican President Donald Trump receives – require employers to exceed the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. New Hampshire, considered a state more ...

The Telegraph would like to respond to concerns expressed by Jahmal Mosley, superintendent of the Nashua School District. Specifically, Mosley cited the article concerning the first Nashua School District Board of Education meeting of the year, during which new board members were sworn into ...

NASHUA – The focus at Justin Hall’s Superior Court bail hearing Wednesday was not on the relatively minor theft charge that placed him there, but on what needs to be done to return him to the sober, successful Adult Drug Court graduate he was three years ago. “I want him to get the help ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a bipartisan effort to help rural communities thrive, U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., introduced The Success for Rural Students and Communities Act of 2020 on Wednesday. Their bipartisan bill would help rural students reach their higher ...

NASHUA – While Taylor Cahill, who was arrested on numerous charges Tuesday night in Nashua, may at some point be returned to the more familiar environment of Sullivan County, a Nashua Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered him to be held locally for the time being. Ultimately, Judge ...

NASHUA – With efficiency in mind, Nashua Transit System officials will likely eliminate a bus route plagued by low ridership. At 3 p.m. Jan. 15 in Room 208 of Nashua City Hall, 229 Main St., officials will conduct a public hearing concerning the elimination of the Downtown Connector route. ...

NASHUA – Board of Education President Heather Raymond and Superintendent Jahmal Mosley hope for more productive meetings in the new school year. Still, new board members, who convened for the first time on Tuesday, face several challenges: • Reports of violent bullying at middle ...

NASHUA – $20 trillion for Medicare for All and $3 trillion for "green" jobs. These major spending plans espoused by Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts do not even count her strategies to provide free public college to everyone, cancel student loan debt for 42 ...

NASHUA – Karim Bin Rashid Ahmad, the Nashua man arrested in March on felony theft and burglary charges accusing him of entering an east side Nashua apartment and stealing cash and items worth $3,340, has reached a plea deal that includes amending the charges to misdemeanor offenses. Ahmad, ...

MANCHESTER – A Merrimack man facing charges accusing him of hitting a woman with his truck and breaking her leg is among several Nashua area residents indicted by the Hillsborough County Superior Court-North grand jury for December. Jason Tweedy, 41, of 9 Pilgrim Ave., was indicted on one ...

CONCORD (AP) — Federal officials announced a plan Tuesday to reduce pollution in one of the largest estuaries in the Northeast. In the draft Clean Water Permit for the Great Bay in New Hampshire, the Environmental Protection Agency calls for a dozen communities that ring the bay to reduce ...

NASHUA – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is racking up support from Republicans alienated by President Donald Trump ahead of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation (#FITN) primary, as former U.S. Sen. Gordon Humphrey and former first lady Dorothy Peterson are endorsing ...

NASHUA – While campaigning in Electoral College battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan in 2016, now President Donald Trump directly blamed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for the closure of steel mills and factories that once employed thousands. Trump ...

NASHUA – The pharmaceutical industry is profiting while nearly one-quarter of New Hampshire seniors have reported cutting out a prescribed drug due to its high cost, according to officials speaking at the Nashua Senior Activity Center on Monday. New Futures and New Hampshire Alliance for ...

NASHUA – Grant Degiacomo’s mother, clutching a folded piece of paper with handwritten notes, approached the judge during her son’s arraignment and bail hearing on Monday and asked if she could speak briefly. “I love my son ... I want what’s best for him,” she began. “But he ...

NASHUA – Charged in April with a misdemeanor count of resisting arrest, former Merrimack resident Julie Tomchak entered a not-guilty plea in Merrimack district court, but was later found guilty. Tomchak, 44, who also goes by Julie Baxter, was sentenced to seven days in jail, all suspended ...

NASHUA – Mayor Jim Donchess began his fourth Inaugural Address Sunday with a blend of celebration and gratitude, congratulating new and incumbent officials “who have worked hard to get here” before expressing thanks to “our families” and “the 2,800 city employees who work every day ...