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Beginning this fall, on-campus students at Southern New Hampshire University will be able to try out for a position on the school's new competitive eSports varsity program, the first program of its kind in the state.

An estimated 600 to 700 new students visited Pinkerton Academy in Derry during its Freshman Field Day on Tuesday, where incoming students participated in some team-building exercises, toured the school, met teachers and got to know some of their fellow students.

Numerous reports of lightning strikes came in as heavy rain, thunder and lightning storms knocked out power to more than 7,000 in New Hampshire on Tuesday evening.

A Marlborough man faces four animal cruelty charges after more than 50 Labrador retrievers were taken from his home, costing the local animal shelter more than 30,000 so far.

More than 32 years after Christa McAulliffe and six crew mates died in the Challenger disaster, the Concord school teacher's 'lost lessons' are being taught in space.

The American Legion Hall on Maple Street was packed wall to wall with more than 100 on hand to enjoy chicken tenders from the Puritan Backroom and hear U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen endorse Executive Councilor Chris Pappas in the Democratic primary for the 1st Congressional District.

Two Manchester police officers shot by a man with a history of mental illness have filed a lawsuit alleging that the New Hampshire Department of Safety and a Derry gun shop failed to do the proper background check to stop him from buying the gun used in the 2016 shooting.

A local artist and state representative was almost the victim of an elaborate art scheme, but his wife, the bookkeeper, was able to foil the scammer.

Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire were ranked first, second and third, respectively, as the best states in the nation for quality health care and access to it, according to a WalletHub analysis of 50 states and the District of Columbia. The study analyzes 40 measures of cost, accessibility and outcomes.

The New Hampshire High Tech Council is looking for people to compete in its annual TechOut event with a 300,000 investment pool to be given out to startup winners.

THE PROPOSED construction of 165 apartment units in southeastern Manchester off Lucas Road raises an issue that Manchester and other communities in New Hampshire are grappling with: How does a community best balance competing interests in making decisions regarding growth and development?

AL NETTEL was the first real news reporter to speak to me in the Union Leader newsroom. That was well more than 50 years ago.

FOR THREE YEARS, I wrote a column for the Concord Monitor, which usually ran on Sundays.

A juror who helped convict Richard Moore in the 2016 murder of a Danville woman got a startling surprise in the mail: a letter from the killer asking why the jury found him guilty and offering evidence he claims proves his innocence.

As investigators try to piece together the life of the man accused of murdering Carol Felides in June and setting her mobile home on fire, the New Hampshire State Police Major Crime Unit has now hung posters around town seeking more information about Webber's whereabouts.

Fire personnel rescued two teenage boys who fell into the water off the Wiswall Falls Mill Site on the Lamprey River Monday afternoon.

A retired Epping fire chief sprang into action Sunday to save a boy clinging to a tree after he was nearly swept away in the swollen Lamprey River.

MANCHESTER - Police called to an Agnes Street apartment Friday that should have been vacant address Friday found three people inside, as well as drugs and a loaded gun, police said.After being called to 235 Agnes St. by the landlord, police opened the door at about 8:20 a.m. and found William Fitzpatrick, 35, no fixed address,...

North Country state Sen. Jeff Woodburn is resigning his position as leader of the Democratic minority in the state Senate in the wake of his arrest last week on domestic violence charges.

A 21-year veteran of the city police department is under investigation by local and federal authorities for unspecified wrongdoing, police officials announced Monday afternoon, the third officer in seven months to face a criminal probe.