Earlier this month, voters in Salem and Windham anted up $6.1 million to guarantee access to something they’ve never needed in the past — water from Manchester.
As most of the New England states pursue aggressive goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to clean energy sources, some of their methods are irking New Hampshire officials, who foresee Granite Staters picking up the tab for those policies in the form of higher power bills.
SIDNEY, Iowa — His farm is still cut off by floodwaters, so Iowa soybean farmer Pat Sheldon had to view the damage from the air. On a helicopter ride over what seemed like an endless stretch of water, he came to a place he recognized as his own land — and saw that one of the grain silos had …
While eating lunch at the Mineral City Mill and Grill in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Friday, Rep. Steve King — the Iowa Republican who has made a series of statements embracing white nationalism — got a face-full of water from another restaurant patron, authorities said.
It would add $3.50 more to the monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 600 kilowatt-hours per month, officials said.
With heavy March snows, early thaws and plenty of rain teaming up to make area dirt roads impassable last weekend, some New Boston residents are demanding that the town take a new approach to dealing with the town's many unpaved roads.
Firefighters and police rescued a deer from a frozen pond Tuesday morning, only to euthanize it after determining it had suffered a mortal wound overnight.
ARUNDEL, Maine - For Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone, the discovery in 2016 that his cows were producing tainted milk has since brought financial ruin and threatened to shut down a century-old family business.
Chickering Farm on Route 63 has been home to six generations of the Chickering family, and current owner Arthur “Jim” Chickering, 85, wanted to see the property stay a farm.
By the time marine biologist Darrell Blatchley arrived at the fishing village Saturday, the young Cuvier's beaked whale was already floating, dead in the water, its eyes sunken and ribs protruding through its skin. The current off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao had washed away th…
CONTOOCOOK — Seismology experts confirmed an earthquake hit the Greater Concord area Friday night.
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LONDONDERRY — Liberty Utilities presented a new economic analysis of its Granite Bridge project Friday maintaining it is the lowest-cost option for expanding natural gas in the region.
MERRIMACK — More than $22 million in upgrades to the town’s wastewater treatment plant are being proposed over the next two years, which is expected to increase sewer rates substantially.
DURHAM — About 1,000 high school students gathered at the University of New Hampshire Thursday to tackle a touchy topic: the role of the media in society.
NASHUA — A Merrimack company will be exploring the costs of potentially installing solar panels at several city schools.
Water is one of the most important utilities in the home, and one of the easiest to overuse.
The city's recycling program will overspend its budget by the end of March, leaving city officials to decide how to fund the program for the next three months.
EXETER — More than a million gallons of untreated sewage spilled out of an old pipe that ruptured last weekend with much of the discharge flowing into the Squamscott River.
Fish and Game announced it has purchased 3,181 acres in Newport, Croydon and Grantham to form the William B. Ruger Wildlife Management Area.
Voters in three communities will consider warrant articles at Town Meeting that would ban all-terrain vehicles from municipal roads.
EXETER — The state claims a local dry cleaner owes nearly $4,000 in costs related to the cleanup of a hazardous chemical that contaminated the property.
DURHAM — A University of New Hampshire graduate student studying invasive plants in forests near rivers has been named the Graduate Student of the Year by the Granite State Division of the Society of American Foresters.
Gov. Chris Sununu talked about the economy, health care, prevention and recovery and environmental concerns at Pease during the annual State of the State hosted by The Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth Tuesday morning.
CONCORD — A lawsuit filed Monday by a pair of environmentalist groups against Eversource and Connecticut-based Granite Shore Power claims violations of the Clean Water Act by the coal-fired Merrimack Station power plant in Bow.
MERRIMACK — Residents urged the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services to put in place more stringent drinking water standards than what is being proposed, saying Monday that it is worth being cautious for the health of Granite Staters.
The Amoskeag Fishways will scale back to an intern-operated operation open to the public only in the spring, the New Hampshire Audubon Society says.
In just 100 years, the emblematic stone sculptures that guard the coastline of Easter Island could be little more than simple rectangular blocks, conservation experts are warning.
PORTSMOUTH — New research about the effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances on pregnant women and young children is being performed in New Hampshire.
CONCORD — A bill that would double and in some cases triple state fees for things like excavating, dredging and maintaining dry docks cleared its first test in the House, in a party-line vote with all Republicans opposed.
DURHAM — Planting grass turf in tilled agricultural soil greatly reduced the ability of new growth of the invasive shrub glossy buckthorn to establish itself in a new area by seed, according to researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire.
HAMPTON — At the upcoming town election, voters will decide if new or substantially improved structures built in the tidal wetlands buffer must be placed on pilings.
CONCORD — Off-highway recreational vehicles have created an economic boom for the North Country, or a growing threat to the tranquility many sought when they moved there.
CONCORD — New Hampshire will soon be home to the only coal-fired power plants left in New England, and the owner of those power plants says they will be burning coal for the foreseeable future.
Heartbreaking. That’s the word used over and over in the wake of a fire that leveled two historic buildings this month at The Rocks.
The film follows a West Virginia community and its families struggling to cope with water contamination and health problems believed to be associated with PFOA, while also exposing those who knew about its dangers years before it became public.
ORION, Ill. -- Randy DeBaillie pointed to the power meter on his snow-covered farm: Even on a foggy, monochromatic day, with the sun barely piercing the clouds, the flat black panels planted nearby in two long rows were generating electricity.
President Bill Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Science in 1996.
WASHINGTON — Democrats on Thursday laid out a Green New Deal that would eliminate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions within a decade, an effort to make climate change a central issue in the 2020 presidential race.
Elected officials are taking steps to safeguard the Nashua River and its tributaries.
RAYMOND — Voters will be asked to OK a $53,000 plan to switch all town street lights to more energy efficient LED in a move that could cut the light bill by 40 to 60 percent.
CONCORD — Communities across the state own more than 180,000 acres of undeveloped forests, fields and wetlands that create nearly $146 million a year in economic benefits — including recreation and maple sugaring, according to a new report.
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