Four businesses in New Hampshire are facing federal workplace investigations because of employee death or hospitalization due to COVID-19, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Three of the businesses involve a fatality investigation, including Walmart on Loudon Road ...
PLYMOUTH – Mandatory mask ordinances are being considered in towns and cities around the state and one is already in place in Nashua as municipalities grapple on their own with measures to stop the spread of COVID-19. While at least 36 states now have mandatory requirements for mask use in ...
CONCORD – The state Department of Health and Human Services announced three additional deaths related to COVID-19 on Thursday, three men and one woman from Hillsborough County, all 60 years of age and older. On Thursday, the state also announced 25 new positive test results for COVID-19. ...
CONCORD – A commission looking at improving police accountability across the state heard from an immigrant rights activist in Manchester Wednesday who said she often finds herself serving as a bridge between the people and police. Eva Castillo-Turgeon, a member of the Manchester Police ...
NASHUA – Within two weeks of getting word that local resident Chane Fisher, a Tier II sex offender, allegedly failed to update his information on the state's sex-offender registry, police detectives located him and took him into custody on three related charges. Upon his arrest, detectives ...
NASHUA – James Colby, the 37-year-old Nashua man arrested a month ago after an officer on patrol saw a car leave the road, go across a lawn and through brush before crashing into a tree, has been denied his request for personal recognizance bail. Judge Charles Temple, following Colby's ...
The COVID-19 Equity Response Team says that in order to keep people of color safe from the COVID-19 pandemic, New Hampshire needs to work on racial inequalities already plaguing the state. In a report presented to Gov. Chris Sununu on July 12 and released by Sununu’s office late Wednesday, ...
CONCORD — A bill intended to enhance the state’s broadband infrastructure was signed into law Wednesday. The bill passed the Senate on 24-0 vote, and the House 248-64. House Bill 1111 would expand broadband access throughout the state, particularly in rural areas. The coronavirus ...
A line of heavy thunderstorms, accompanied by high winds, swept through the area Thursday afternoon. The storms are part of a larger weather system bringing similar storms across New England.
CONCORD — Face masks will be required to enter or pass through the State House complex after the Joint Facilities Committee voted 11-0 to approve the new policy Tuesday. Currently the State House complex is closed to the public and only open to legislators and legislative staff. The ...
NASHUA – A 22-year-old Nashua woman is free on personal recognizance bail pending arraignment on a single count of felony theft, which police say stems from the alleged theft of a Pomeranian dog valued at about $3,000. Makayla A. Charichel, of 90 Amherst St., Apt. A, is accused of stealing ...
NASHUA – A 23-year-old man from the west-central Maine town of Dixfield has been charged in Nashua with offenses that accuse him of shooting himself in the foot – both literally and figuratively. Police said officers responded over the weekend to St. Joseph Hospital for a report of a man ...
CONCORD – The state Department of Health and Human Services announced two additional deaths related to COVID-19 on Tuesday. We offer our sympathies to the family and friends. They are one man and one woman from Hillsborough County, both 60 years of age or older. The state also announced ...
LACONIA – The hot legs contest, tattoo, and bikini competitions are on, but the annual Hill Climb at Gunstock and biker’s cruise on MV Mount Washington across Lake Winnipesaukee have been scrapped due to the pandemic. There will be lots of chrome on Lakeside Avenue, though, and the ...
CONCORD — An omnibus bill to enhance state child protection laws and programs was signed into law by Gov. Chris Sununu on Monday. House Bill 1162 provides additional safety and health provisions, legal safeguards, and earlier intervention services. A number of provisions in the bill ...
PLYMOUTH – Plymouth State University officials explained their vision and safety procedures for the fall semester to alumni and town community members at a virtual town hall on Monday afternoon. The panel, led by Vice President of Communications, Enrollment and Student Life Marlin ...
NASHUA – Sylvia Gale, a longtime Nashua resident and former state social worker who represented Nashua's Ward 1 in the State House and advocated tirelessly for social justice causes, has died after a battle with cancer. Known as an "activist's activist," Gale, 70, is being recalled as a ...
A look at coronavirus-related developments in New England on Sunday. ___ MASSACHUSETTS The city of Gloucester banned beach parking for out-of-town visitors this weekend as temperatures were expected to reach into the upper 90s. The move came after complaints about excessive traffic last ...
Local control was a phrase heard frequently last week regarding the opening of public schools this fall while the coronavirus continues to ravage much of the country. Local control is a bit of a misnomer in New Hampshire because we are not a “home rule” state. What does that ...
NASHUA – Officer Bennet Stusse, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran who most recently served as a school resource officer and a trainer with the department's Racial Ethnic Disparity (RED) program, is settling in this week to his new job as the Nashua PAL officer. Stusse, who PAL members have begun ...
