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As Diane Foley watched the new movie 'Viper Club,' about an American freelance journalist taken hostage by terrorists in Syria and his mother's struggles to free him, her suspicions were confirmed ' and her anger stoked.

After a citywide revaluation that significantly increased property assessments, the local tax rate is expected to substantially decrease.

A local planning official is frustrated that Bedford's senior citizens have been placed on the back burner, arguing this week that a new senior center or community center must be included in the town's proposed capital improvement plan.

The town's request to have a judge appoint two new selectmen is only the second time that a New Hampshire municipality has turned to the court system to fill vacancies after a mass exodus from an elected board, a state official said Thursday.

Homeowners living in a Main Street neighborhood have struggled for months with little to no water getting drawn from their wells, and permanent solutions appear to be at least two years out.

Police in Somersworth have arrested two men who they say shot out windows in New Hampshire and Maine last week.

To the Editor: One thing that may be said of church scandals is that their occurrence is nearly the only time that most Catholics talk out loud about their faith or, in many cases, their departure from it.

IT'S AN AFFECTING story. Matthew Desmond, writing in The New York Times Magazine, profiles Vanessa Solivan, a poor single mother raising three children.

With a win tonight, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats would capture their third Eastern League championship.

As New Hampshire's baby boomers age, the state's 212,000 workers 50 to 64 are contemplating retirement in different ways and at ages older than previous generations.

The state's largest firefighters union endorsed 1st Congressional District candidate Chris Pappas after his decisive primary win earlier this week.

State officials issued a public health threat declaration Thursday for southern New Hampshire for West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis.

Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald announced his office reached a five-year settlement agreement over child sexual abuse charges with St. Paul's School to monitor behavior on its campus, provide training to staff and services to victims.

CONCORD ' St. Paul's School graduate Owen Labrie sat in the front row Thursday as the New Hampshire Supreme Court heard his appeal seeking to overturn a felony conviction for use of a computer in furtherance of a sex crime.

A fierce lobbying campaign by wood energy advocates had the desired effect on Thursday, as lawmakers in the House and Senate voted to override Gov. Chris Sununu's veto of a bill designed to help sustain the state's six wood-burning power plants and the forestry industry.

New Hampshire's largest Boy Scout organization kicks off a new era today when it begins officially signing up girls as Cub Scouts, part of the groundbreaking decision last year by Scouts nationwide to open its membership to girls.

City officials are backing a plan to explore whether a new hotel would be appropriate for the downtown area.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, will be in New Hampshire on Friday, Sept. 21, for a conversation on 'Civility, Cooperation, Compromise: Why Our Constitutional Republic Requires Them.'

The Board of Selectmen voted Monday to raise sewer rates to 4.65 per 100 cubic feet in 2019, 4.85 in 2020, 4.85 in 2021 and 4.95 in 2022 following the recommendation of town Finance Director Nicole McGee.

What began Wednesday afternoon as an 'emergency situation involving a minor' appears to have ended with the child being found safe in Haverhill.