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Union Leader StaffFRANCONIA - A Connecticut woman who became ill while hiking Franconia Ridge had to shelter overnight before a rescue team could reach her and carry her back to the trailhead, state Fish and Game officials said Monday.Sarah Yankee, 39, of East Haddam, Conn., called for...

Bridges already have been updated to accommodate four lanes, but about 15 miles of the highway on each side will be built with three lanes and shoulders. Another roughly 8 feet of pavement will need to be added later to fit a fourth lane. Fourth-lane construction could start next year and be completed by the September 2020 timetable.

The New Hampshire Firearm Safety Coalition has promoted trigger locks, and created a suicide prevention campaign for gun shops that has become a model for the nation. Now they want to enlist firearms instructors to promote suicide awareness.

Jackie Bradley Jr. scored the tying run on a throwing error by third baseman Miguel Andujar with two outs in the ninth inning, and Andrew Benintendi hit a game-winning single with two outs in the 10th as the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 5-4 Sunday night, completing a four-game sweep at Fenway Park.

The Goffstown Little League all-stars rallied for two runs in the sixth inning but fell, 4-2, to Pittsfield Mass. American in their first game at the New England Regionals in Bristol, Conn., on Sunday night.

A New York City man whose canoe capsized on Lake Winnipesaukee treaded water for about five minutes before being rescued by a fisherman who was passing by and saw him in the water, the New Hampshire State Police Marine Patrol said.

To the Editor: Quick, alert the New Hampshire health authorities! There's been another confirmed case of Trump Derangement Syndrome TDS in New Hampshire.

To the Editor: I've come to know Naomi through running. She shows up, rain, shine, heat or cold. As a runner, she's motivated, intentional, driven yet somehow still down-to-earth, relatable, and optimistic. It strikes me now that she is, and will be as the representative for New Hampshire's First District, the very same in her role representing...

Trump concedes that his son's 2016 meeting with Russians was to get dirt on Clinton

Officials say a 10-year-old girl from Massachusetts hurt her foot after kicking a boat propeller while tubing on Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith on Sunday.

Police say a Nashua man was found dead Sunday morning on a Saco River beach in Fryeburg, Maine.

Consolidated Communications and The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Communications Workers of America reached tentative agreements on new contracts late Saturday, avoiding a possible strike.

The three-story Central Street apartment building damaged in a fire last week ' a long-vacant building frequented by vagrants ' was not insured and not on a city list of derelict buildings, a city fire official said Friday.

State police say a fourth person ' a teen from Manchester ' has died as a result of injuries sustained in a crash last weekend in Hampton Falls that killed three other people.

SOME NUMBERS from 2017 that will have to improve for the University of New Hampshire football team to live up its lofty preseason expectations:

MUCH OF THE political reaction to the arrest of Jeffrey Woodburn last week would once have been considered astonishing but is now the new normal.

The New Hampshire Treasury began Fiscal Year 2019 in the same manner it ended FY18, with business tax revenue pouring in.

IT'S A PERFECT mess befitting our imperfect age. The New York Times announced it was hiring a Sarah Jeong to join its editorial board. A respected reporter on technology and the internet, Jeong is Asian-American.

It is rare that any of us have a chance to correct a judge, much less the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

AARP Foundation Tax-Aide is looking to expand its team of volunteers for the next tax season. Tax-Aide, now in its 51st year, offers free in-person preparation and assistance to anyone, especially those 50 and older, who can't afford a tax-preparation service.