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After a week with a dry cough, 16-year-old Ian McCracken started experiencing middle-of-the-night coughing fits so severe, he couldn't talk. He returned home from his first trip to the urgent care clinic in mid-July with an inhaler and a five-day course of steroids.

An increasing proportion of U.S. women are experiencing serious and potentially life-threatening complications while giving birth, government researchers report.

Earwax, of all things, poses unrecognized risk in long-term care

Police say a Barrington woman was killed Monday after crashing her car on Route 125 near Abenaki Trail.

Florence, the most powerful storm to menace the U.S. mainland this year, intensified into a Category 4 hurricane as it howled closer to the Carolinas on Monday, prompting evacuations of more than 1 million people to higher ground.

The fate of the building that once housed the Nashua Program at Brentwood is still up in the air as school officials must decide what to do with the newly acquired property.

South Florida's ethnic diversity will play a key role in an ambitious, five-year medical research effort aimed at making treatments and drugs more effective by tailoring them to the lifestyles, genetics and environment of individual patients.

To the Editor: With Labor Day in our rearview, it's on to the 2018 primary for state and federal offices. I, for one, am doing my own personal vetting of the candidates. One thing I do know is who I will not be voting for.

TAXES ARE A DIRTY word that neither political party wants to be accused of supporting. To avoid being labeled tax and spenders, politicians have been very creative in finding ways to provide tax benefits to politically-favored industries without directly raising taxes. They often do it by increasing your electricity rates.

It was 17 years ago today that four hijacked airliners crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, into the Pentagon, and into a Pennsylvania field. We said we would never forget.

To the Editor: The notion of keeping 'in production' local generation capacity is not without merit however the biomass legislation vetoed by Gov. Chris Sununu includes an overlooked 'Christmas Tree' provision adding a privately-owned waste incinerator in Penacook.

Comcast has connected residential customers to service in Rochester, creating the first competitive cable market in New Hampshire.

Nicotine and other chemicals exhaled by e-cigarette smokers can move through air vents, leaving residue on surfaces in other locations, a new study found.

New Hampshire's two Democratic senators made it official on Monday: They plan to vote against the confirmation of U.S. Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the next associate justice of the Supreme Court.

To the Editor: During my childhood, I spent many enjoyable family vacations visiting New Hampshire camping at White Lake State Park in Tamworth. I enjoyed New Hampshire so much that I attended Colby Sawyer College in New London and moved from Massachusetts to teach in Nashua and eventually became a principal at a small, rural elementary school in...

State officials last week outlined four proposals to maintain pedestrian and bicycle access over Little Bay that currently uses the rusting hulk of the General Sullivan Bridge.

WHEN I RAN for governor I made a promise to stand up and fight against New Hampshire's high electricity costs. I believe that the future of the New Hampshire Advantage depends on a low-cost energy system that is sustainable and provides reliability.

To the Editor: I hope to see more of Bernie Sanders expounding his socialist principles throughout the country on behalf of the Democratic Party. I would recommend that Bernie invite a contingent of Venezuelan legislators to the United States to share their stories of how that country has benefited from socialism.

THE ONLY THING more abundant on the sides of New Hampshire roads than dead squirrels are political signs.

WHEN CAMERAS at Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court hearing caught sight of a woman named Zina Bash, a Republican lawyer, with her arm resting in a position that allowed her index finger and thumb to almost touch ' a purportedly racist gesture ' a conspiracy theory broke out on social media, accusing Bash of signaling her support of white...