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It's been said before, and it cannot be said enough: we need a congressperson who can hit the ground running in 2018. We need Naomi Andrews.

To the Editor: I support Mindi Messmer for Congress because she is the most qualified candidate to fill the job. She's spent several years doing important work on the pediatric cancer cluster and other New Hampshire environmental issues.

To the Editor: This September, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire will have its first primary election in over 20 years, which will include the first-ever contested gubernatorial primary.

Nine northern New Hampshire towns and Fryeburg, Maine have combined forces to become an age-friendly community together, joining the AARP's Network of Age-Friendly Communities as the Mount Washington Valley, pledging to plan and coordinate changes in housing, transportation, health services and employment to enhance positive living for seniors as...

The New Hampshire Democratic Party is dumping Kennedy and Clinton in favor of Eleanor Roosevelt, at least when it comes to naming one of the party's major fundraising events.

A Massachusetts man and a woman formerly from Londonderry pleaded guilty on Tuesday in connection with the sales of cocaine and heroin, respectively, to a confidential informant working with the Attorney General's Drug Task Force in Lebanon.

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.