New Hampshire

A pickup driver’s drug use was the reason he crashed last year into an oncoming group of motorcyclists in New Hampshire, leading to the death of seven bikers, the National Transportation Safety Board found Tuesday. The board unanimously approved a report that determined that Volodymyr Zhukovskyy’s impairment from the drugs was the “probable cause” for him crossing the center...

Hot days at the New Hampshire Statehouse traditionally feature a formal motion to allow men to remove their jackets. This week, a motion to permit extra layers of wool and fleece would be more fitting. Newly elected members of the Legislature will meet Wednesday for Organization Day on an outdoor field hockey pitch at the University of New Hampshire, where…

As two Islamic State militants faced a judge in Virginia last month, Diane Foley listened from home through a muffled phone connection and strained to make out the voices of the men prosecutors say kidnapped her son before he was murdered. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh stand accused of belonging to an ISIS cell dubbed “the Beatles,” an incongruously…

On Election Day, a young lieutenant in the Strafford County Sheriff’s Office made history, becoming the first Black person ever elected sheriff in New Hampshire. “I’m so excited, I really am,” said Lt. Mark Brave. “That says that New Hampshire is open to progress, they’re open to new ideas.” The 35-year-old Dover resident ran on a platform of transparency,...

Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began

The pickup truck driver charged with causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire last year told authorities he had drug problems, regularly used heroin and cocaine but believed he was not impaired at the time of the crash. The admission by Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was included in a trove of documents released Wednesday by federal investigators related to the…

More than 21 million voters across the U.S. have already cast ballots in person amid record-breaking early turnout

New Hampshire health officials announced Saturday that they have identified three more establishments with potential community exposure to COVID-19, one day after they announced exposure at five well-known restaurants across the state. The newly affected establishments include two restaurants and a casino. Anyone who visited the Concord Casino in Concord, Paddy’s American Grille in Portsmouth or La Vista Italian...

The first snow of the season came to the higher elevations of Vermont overnight, and in parts of northern New Hampshire and Maine snow even fell in some of the lower elevation towns and plows had to be deployed for the first time this season. Word from Colebrook New Hampshire is we were passing 8 inches of snow around 9…

The pickup driver whose collision with a group of bikers last year left seven motorcyclists dead made some statements to police that should not be part of his upcoming trial, his lawyers told a judge in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Attorneys for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy said their client indicated during the police interview last June that he was not able to…

A white nationalist who rose to prominence during a deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, went on trial Tuesday on federal charges of threatening to rape the wife of a person with whom he was having a dispute. Christopher Cantwell, a New Hampshire resident, has remained in federal custody since he pleaded not guilty in January to using the Telegram…

Rachel Starr Davis and her two-year-old son Lyon had just boarded an American Airlines flight from North Carolina to Manchester on Thursday when she says she was quickly confronted by a flight attendant who said Lyon needed to put on a mask. “And I said well we’ve been on three other legs of our flight with American Airlines and...

As college students across New England return to campus for the fall semester, they’re being tested for the coronavirus. And so far, more than 700 have tested positive at nearly 80 schools in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. A New York Times database is tracking all of the coronavirus cases at colleges and universities across the…

More than 10 cases of COVID-19 have been traced to a fraternity party where people did not follow public health guidelines, the president of the University of New Hampshire said. University and state health officials said Sunday that 11 people have tested positive for the virus so far following an Aug. 29 party at the Theta Chi fraternity. In a…

A cluster of COVID-19 cases in New Hampshire is being linked to a fraternity at the University of New Hampshire, according to school officials and the state Department of Health and Human Services. The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday it is investigating a potential outbreak of the virus among people associated with the Theta Chi…

A 16-year-old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33-mile-swim by reaching a sandy shore in France after darkness fell

New England is no stranger to piles of snow being dumped onto the region each winter. Take a look at some of the worst storms to hit in modern history.

Fresh off accepting the Republican Party’s nomination, President Donald Trump says he is the only thing standing between “democracy and the mob,” as he lashes out at protesters who accosted his supporters as they left the White House the night before

Get to know the owners of Luella’s Southern Kitchen in Chicago, L.A. Dogworks in Los Angeles and the Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth, N.H., as they tell us about their struggles during COVID-19 and how they have been working hard to stay afloat.

Near the close of the Democratic National Convention, before Joe Biden accepted his party’s nomination in the presidential race, came a moment that transcended politics and touched the hearts of a nation. Stuttering has been something 13-year-old Brayden Harrington of Boscawen, New Hampshire, has dealt with his entire life. It’s also something Biden has worked hard to overcome. “I’m...