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PREFERRING VERBAL felicity to practical wisdom, a character in a Benjamin Disraeli novel quipped, 'A majority is always the best repartee.' Not really. Open societies that want to remain so should prefer persuasion to raw power, even the power of majorities. Which is why Republican Sen. Jeff Flake served the nation, its highest...

Statistics released this week by emergency responders show 214 individuals visited a Manchester fire station seeking access to treatment for addiction through the Safe Station program, a new record for intakes in a single month since the initiative debuted in 2016.

Harvard Law School's decision to cancel the course on the Supreme Court taught for the past decade by Judge Brett Kavanaugh says much more about Harvard Law School than it does about Kavanaugh.

Manchester City Solicitor Emily Rice this week rejected a request from the New Hampshire Union Leader for a copy of the video from city library security cameras that depicts the arrest of Clifford Etadafimue on Sept. 24 in the library.

THEY LIVE on the street, often foraging through dumpsters. Some threaten us. Occasionally, they assault people.

To the Editor: Since President Obama has left office, his acts of appeasement and political correctness set in motion certain events that could compromise and eventually put our country in danger of those enemies, foreign and domestic, who want to destroy our free way of life in America.

A Chicago-based private equity firm has made a financial investment in Windham-based Medicus Healthcare Solutions, one of the state's fastest growing private companies.

The New Hampshire State Grange will host its 145th annual session, or convention, at the Best Western Hotel in Keene. State Grange Master Chris Heath will rap the gavel to open the four-day session at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25.

Dozens of residents attended a public hearing Wednesday eager to learn more about the proposed widening of a 12-mile section of the F.E. Everett Turnpike.

The town of Dummer and Mariann Letarte, its former town clerk and tax collector who earlier this year was convicted of embezzling almost 150,000, will go to trial next year to settle how she will make restitution.

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Molly Kelly took her campaign to New Hampshire's longest standing abortion provider on Wednesday, hoping to highlight her support for abortion rights and calling on pro-choice Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to oppose the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, members of the Economic Development Advisory Committee discussed the progress the town has made in filling industrial vacancies and preparing a feasibility study of how a town-owned parcel of land could be used.

A single mother was facing homelessness after a fire destroyed her mobile home at Whispering Pines on Aug. 26. Whispering Pines is located in both Derry and Londonderry.

The school district's media director is asking school officials to discuss the possibility of a new initiative that would provide students with their own laptop.

Very few if any of us are still around who will recall the extraordinary happening of Sept. 9, 1942.

Our city took part in a bike-share pilot program with a young company called VeoRide, headquartered in West Lafayette, Ind. The transportation experiment was launched last June and is ending today, on Oct. 4. After a four-month run, the shiny, turquoise-colored bicycles distributed around the Gate City for public transportation appear to have been...

The party could be over for Dartmouth College's annual homecoming bonfire if the school can't keep students there from touching the fire.

The Keene Recreation Center on Washington Street may be the new home of the Keene Senior Center under a proposal being developed through a feasibility study on the potential move.

At-risk youth from urban centers like Lawrence, Mass., are spending time working on a farm in Windham, building fences and tending to cattle, as part of a program designed to give them the tools they need for success.

A Somersworth Uber driver is furious that money from a data breach settlement will not go to the individuals whose personal information was compromised in 2016.