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To the Editor: I received the excuse from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen explaining why she is voting against Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. It demonstrates an inability to think for herself.

Be careful what you wish for. Our age of technology is a blessing, but it comes complete with its own set of speed bumps in the electronic super highway.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Granite State College will host its 'Fall into the City ' The Annual Celebration of OLLI' from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Falls Event Center, 21 Front St.

WE LEAD OFF this week's column with an important reminder that the Hillside Middle School Builders Club is sponsoring the Luke Capistran 5K on Saturday 10 a.m. at Manchester's Derryfield Park.

Gwendolyn DaSilva rises at 5 a.m. to teach English to Chinese children from a small office just off her kitchen in Colombia. Through an online teaching portal, she gives one-hour private lessons for about four hours to children ages 5 to 12, and then she walks to a coffee shop to spend most of the day blogging about Medellin and travel.

Question: I have a student visa and I am working in Optional Practical Training OPT after receiving my master's degree. I would like to apply for a STEM extension, but my master's degree is not a STEM degree. I think my bachelor's degree in economics is a STEM degree, but my undergraduate school is saying that that my degree's Classification of...

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes a video fails to tell the whole story.

'GUESS WHO'S perpetuating all of these kinds of actions?' Sen. Mazie Hirono explained, boiling down the Senate Democrats' position on Brett Kavanaugh. 'It's the men in this country. I just want to say to the men in this country, just shut up. And step up. Do the right thing for a change.'

The 'Live Free or Die' state of New Hampshire is also the 'Live Sales-Tax Free' state, one of only five that do not collect any tax on retail purchases. And despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June allowing states to collect sales taxes when their residents buy online, some of New Hampshire's online retailers don't want...

Touch a horseshoe crab, map the ocean floor and drive a remotely operated vehicle at the University of New Hampshire's Ocean Discovery Day on Saturday.

To the Editor: Miriam Cahill-Yeaton is running for state representative of Merrimack District 21 EpsomPittsfield. I have known Miriam for several years and find her resume to be topnotch: retired U.S. Air Force officer, registered nurse for 40 years, nurse practitioner for 18 years, American Legion Post 112 officer, and Epsom Public Library...

THE KNOCK on moose is that they are supposedly dumb. It is said that their brain is very small. When they are standing in the middle of the road on a dark night, their little brain signals to them that, whatever the object may be that is barreling toward them at a high speed, they are bigger and thus they aren't moving. This is why moose almost...

Jeff Woodburn will have his day in court, a month after voters must decide whether to send him back to the state Senate.

The Director of Motor Vehicles, Elizabeth A. Bielecki, has released the following list of Driving While Intoxicated revocations. Please note the actual date of revocation may have preceded this announcement.

To the Editor: Partisanship should never take priority over the safety of our students.

To the delight of attendees, the blue and white of the Saltire once again flew high over the largest Scottish cultural event in North America as Loon Mountain Resort hosted the New Hampshire Highland Games and Festival this past weekend.

The father of Christian Jackson, a 3-year-old boy whose homicide is still unsolved after more than seven years, is now facing felony drug charges.

Local leaders will meet with state and federal representatives today as part of Newport's Sunshine Initiative to strengthen the town and grow it economically.

Since the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center started offering transplant procedures in 1992, more than 1,000 people have been given a new lease on life, said Dr. Michael Chobanian.

The first week of fall is here, along with temperatures more fitting of the season.