Manchester News

Installation of new body scanners is expected to be completed at state prisons by the end of the summer, a Department of Corrections official said Wednesday.

To the Editor: Pat Buchanan writes that 'NATO is obsolete' and that the U.S. 'provocatively moved NATO into Russia's front yard' after the USSR collapsed.

Bedford parents, and other concerned citizens, came to give the Bedford School Board a piece of their mind on Monday. The school board decided not to listen.

After the Concord All-Stars beat Portsmouth to win the 11-12-year-old New Hampshire Little League District 2 championship, coach Joe Russell expected more jubilation out of his players.

WHILE SELF-PROCLAIMED 'democratic socialists' win Democratic primaries in America, actual socialists in Cuba are finally backing away from some of the ideas that kept Cubans poor.

An organization that helps nonprofits with developing strategic plans and marketing will combine with a similar Boston group to better serve clients.

Installation of new body scanners is expected to be completed at state prisons by the end of the summer, a Department of Corrections official said Wednesday.

MODIFIED race fans, some of them still tingling from the highly entertaining NASCAR Whelen Tour event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last weekend, have another corker coming right up this Saturday at Star Speedway: the Tri-Track Open Modified Series SBM 125 with a purse in excess of 40,000.

It was standing room only at the Sunapee Lodge at Mount Sunapee State Park on Wednesday night for a public information session on the proposed transfer of a state lease to a portion of Mount Sunapee State Park to Vail Resorts.

The upgrade to the Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility is moving along on schedule and the 92 million project is on track to be completed in August of 2020.

The Tall Ships are in Portsmouth for a four-day family friendly event that draws thousands to Peirce Island.

Paul Foden, the owner of Fody's Tavern in Nashua, said renovations are underway on a building at 187 Rockingham Road that will soon become Fody's second New Hampshire location.

To the Editor: Abortion gag rules are unethical and they don't work. When they're implemented, women around the world lose access to reproductive health care and the number of abortions worldwide increases.

To the Editor: To compare what Roosevelt gave away to Stalin at the Yalta conference versus President Trump's statements in Helsinki is beyond belief.

At the Manchester Artists Association's monthly meetings, artists are invited to bring in work for Artist of the Month consideration. Those present vote to select eight artists, whose work is then displayed for a month at one of eight Manchester-area locations.

The flames have died down, and we would urge Laconia city councilors and firefighters to not poke the ashes lest they flare up again.

Talk about having the Midas touch. Mayor Jim Donchess seems to have it. And he's got the numbers to prove it.

With prospective buyer Bernie Plante on board to purchase the contaminated Mohawk Tannery site, environmental advocates are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to take no shortcuts during the cleanup.

Plymouth State University is the latest to come under fire after it was revealed that current and retired professors wrote letters of support for former Exeter High School guidance counselor Kristie Torbick, who admitted to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student on multiple occasions.

A 39-year-old Granite State native who was a Nordic ski coach and all-around adrenaline junkie died last Saturday in a trail running accident on the Gore Range ridgeline in Colorado.