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To the Editor: The New Hampshire Fish and Game Powder Mill Fish Hatchery in New Durham discharges wastewater containing significant amounts of phosphorus and other pollutants into the Merrymeeting River, which then flows into Lake Winnipesaukee's Alton Bay.

To the Editor: Is U.S. foreign assistance promoting American values? According to the State Department, we send the most foreign assistance to Israel, yet Israel violates our values in important ways.

HELPING KIDS to be healthy and active is a public health priority. According to a Youth Risk Behavior survey conducted in 2015, nearly half of New Hampshire's high school students are not getting the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity each day and more than a quarter of high school students were considered overweight or obese.

To the Editor: Give credit where credit is due. Pat Buchanan does a masterful job at misdirecting the argument.

The Unity Breakfast is a New Hampshire political tradition in which candidates come together shortly after the primary to pretend they have gotten over the wounds they've just inflicted on one another.

'ARE YOU BETTER OFF now than you were two years ago?' Republicans should ask voters this key question during the 2018 midterms.

A Laconia man who Manchester police used a stun gun on last year will serve more than five years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

A Vermont woman was arrested Wednesday night after officers found drugs and a small child in her car in Lebanon, police said.

A Hillsborough County jury convicted Manchester resident Dwayne Reddick on a charge of trafficking crack cocaine on Thursday, a conviction that could place him in prison for life.

A 28-year-old Dalton man was sentenced to five years in federal prison for possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray announced Wednesday.

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.