Manchester News

The New Hampshire Audubon Massabesic Center's 12th annual Wild New Hampshire Photo Contest is underway, and submissions will be accepted until Saturday, Sept. 8.

Companies wanting to compete for product-of-the-year honors are getting extra time, until Sept. 7, to apply.

It's another week and another Democratic heavyweight picks sides in the 11-person primary in the 1st Congressional District ' and the choice is a familiar one.

To the Editor: You and your readers who buy electricity from Eversource or Unitil are in for a big surprise. The 20 million per year bailout planned for the corporate-owned biomass-wood-chip-trash-burning power plants would have been taken from everyday people through their monthly light bills.

To the Editor: Of the 11 Democratic candidates running for Congress in New Hampshire's First District, there is only one candidate who can say that they have won more elections than all the others combined, having served as a mayor, a county attorney, and a school board member.

To the Editor: Please join me in electing new conservative leadership for the state representative District 27 race. If you have been searching for a true Republican candidate who supports the state GOP platform dedicated to preserving freedom, limited government and unlimited opportunity for all, then look no further than Jim Kelly.

Regarding the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Democrats have a Leninist aversion to argument. However, Republicans could usefully ask these questions:

The state Attorney General's Office is investigating a suspicious death that occurred Wednesday night in an area of Pine Street in Seabrook.

One person was killed and another suffered life-threatening injuries in a head-on collision Wednesday afternoon that shut down part of Route 9 into the evening, police said.

A Portsmouth man convicted of beating a former Planet Fitness employee to retaliate for an alleged theft of 30,000 by her boyfriend will spend at least 18 months in state prison.

SOMERSWORTH - A registered sex offender from Somersworth is being held on 50,000 cash bail after he allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a man.

An exhibit of 44 dramatic story quilts narrating 400 years of the African American experience will open concurrently at the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough and the Canaan Street Meeting House in Canaan on Saturday.x201cAnd Still We Rise,x201d created by members of the Women of Color Quilters Network and organized by Carolyn L.

MANCHESTER - An exhibit of photographs showing the history of immigration in Manchester during the past century will be on display at the Manchester City Library from Thursday, Sept. 6, through October.x201cThe Manchester City Library is proud to be hosting this exhibit as part of their...

PORTSMOUTH - Artist Barbara Stevens Adams is taking on a New England icon in her latest exhibit, x201cAbstracted Barns.x201dThe show will open Wednesday, Sept. 5, at the Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St.x201cActually there is no one real barn,x201d Adams said. x201cSome...

MANCHESTER ' A pedestrian walking along Union Street was sandwiched between an apartment building and a SUV that careened out of control following a noon collision with another vehicle in the center city, a witness said.

GILFORD - A 47-year-old Lakes Region man has been charged with negligent homicide DWI in connection with a fatal crash on Route 11 late Tuesday afternoon.

MANCHESTER ' A woman arrested on a warrant during a motor vehicle stop was busted for having drugs in her holding cell Monday evening, police said Tuesday.

Nick Willard, Manchester's former police chief, is now the U.S. marshal for the state of New Hampshire.

Liberal mayor Andrew Gillum pulled off a stunning upset in the Democratic primary for Florida governor on Tuesday, beating several better-funded rivals to set up a November showdown against a Republican aligned with President Donald Trump.

Shortstop JT Riddle's throwing error in the bottom of the ninth gave the host Boston Red Sox a wild 8-7 walk-off win over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night at Fenway Park.