Critics claim the bill discriminates against transgender athletes.
For a couple hours Wednesday afternoon, Bruins captain Zdeno Chara became a playmate for dozens of local children.
The organization does not need office space to operate, the CEO says.
MANCHESTER — The Capuchin friars — the brown-robed priests and brothers who took part in social advocacy efforts ranging from immigrant rights to safe housing — will leave the center city parish they have run for the past 30 years, they announced Sunday.
Last fall, New Horizons made it as clear as an icicle on a sunny February morning.
The grant will fund two positions to help facilitate a different understanding of the cultures.
NASHUA — The Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter is hoping to start renovations this summer to convert the former Sacred Heart School building into an emergency homeless shelter.
Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon is pushing back on a report that, while he was provost at the University of Michigan, he mishandled the promotion of a school official later accused of sexual harassment.
MANCHESTER — Officials say they are “actively enforcing” city zoning ordinances and safety codes in an attempt to regulate about 50 to 60 sober living houses, but more help is needed at the state level.
MANCHESTER — The Boy Scout organization covering New Hampshire stressed Tuesday that it is legally and financially independent from the Boy Scouts of America, the umbrella organization that filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week because of a crushing load of lawsuits alleging sexua…
MANCHESTER — The city’s Zoning Board of Adjustment has voted unanimously to deny a variance request from a company operating a sober house in a Manchester residential neighborhood.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday appeared to blame the murder of a 7-year-old girl on the “neoliberal economic model,” angering critics who say the government has failed to stem a wave of gender violence.
MANCHESTER — The Salvation Army is selling chocolate Easter bunnies for its “Take a Bite Out of Hunger” campaign.
KEENE — Citing a significant and steady decline in donations through workplaces, Monadnock United Way President Liz LaRose on Monday announced cuts to programs and staff.
The Nashua Honduras Outreach Team will be leaving for its eighth trip to Honduras in the past six years.
JAFFREY — Monadnock at Home, an area non-profit that helps seniors stay in their homes, is becoming part of Catholic Charities New Hampshire.
MANCHESTER -- Manchester police arrested a Manchester teenager on Friday on a number of felony charges, charges that show teenagers who deal in marijuana are relying on guns as part of their trade.
The fundraiser for the youth boys’ baseball team was unlike anything Lori Hamlin had seen before.
RICHMOND, Va. — A conservative Republican lawmaker, irked that Democrats might mess with Virginia’s Confederate monuments, filed a bill that boiled down to a dare: If you want to take down statues, start with one of your own.
LEBANON — The citizen’s petition to change how police in Lebanon deal with illegal immigrants is seen as legally problematic by city counsel, and an example of overreach by Police Chief Richard Mello.
Substance abuse. Suicide. Mental illness. Childhood trauma.
MANCHESTER — The city has to start thinking of housing as part of health care, a Texas consultant told city and state officials Thursday.
A series of statements by President Donald Trump and top Democratic presidential candidates in recent days has thrust Social Security into the middle of the 2020 campaign, revealing tensions within both political parties over government spending and a program that pays monthly benefits to ne…
When the union representing black police officers accused the Miami Police Department of harboring racism and enabling discrimination, they pointed to a captain’s job application as evidence.
MANCHESTER — New Hampshire marked its 20th official Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, with audiences hearing from the woman who signed the bill into law.
LANDQUART, Switzerland — Climate activists set off on a three-day hike from Landquart in eastern Switzerland to the ski resort of Davos on Sunday to draw attention to global warming at the World Economic Forum this week.
ATLANTA — The center that honors slain U.S. civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. will devote the holiday celebrating his legacy on Monday to voter education and registration, his youngest daughter said in a recent interview.
RICHMOND, Va. — The convoys and militias are coming, if social media posts are to be believed, headed to Virginia’s capital on Monday to take a stand for gun rights — or, in the words of some, to fan the flames of a civil war.
PHILADELPHIA — A tradition inspired by disappointment over the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency stepped off this morning on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the fourth year in a row in a presidential election year in which women are once again vying to be the first to occupy …
Organizers of a Virginia gun rally urged thousands of people to attend this Monday’s event protesting Democrats’ push to stiffen the state’s gun laws after its top court upheld the governor’s emergency ban on weapons at the rally grounds.
MANCHESTER — Anti-Semitism in New Hampshire and the state’s Jewish heritage and culture will be topics of the 18th annual Martin Luther King Jr. dinner celebration on Monday night, put on by the National Cultural Diversity Awareness Council.
MANCHESTER — Angie’s Place, the former women-only shelter operated by New Horizons, will be converted into small apartments that will be leased out to homeless people under the Housing First model, leaders of Families in Transition said Tuesday.
Master Sgt. Jewell Robinson has set her eyes on a goal that goes beyond sparkles and a sash.
MANCHESTER — A Valley Street jail inmate faces two felony charges stemming from an alleged assault on corrections officers on Saturday.
A panel will examine poverty, racism, militarism and environmental devastation, as highlighted by the Poor People's Campaign.
EACH YEAR, we announce the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). By law, federal benefits increase when the cost of living rises, as measured by the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). Usually, there is an increase in the benefit…
NASHUA — The U.S. Department of Justice for the first time ever in 2020 will collect national data on law enforcement suicides — a crisis that hit home hard four months ago in the Gate City.
HANOVER — The former head of the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department at the center of a sexual assault and harassment lawsuit was distraught when Dartmouth College failed to clear his name, and wouldn’t let him go public with a defense, according to a story this week in the New York Times.
In 2019 the Democratically-led state Legislature spent months fine-tuning and then passing a mandatory family and medical leave bill. On Wednesday, the House spent 10 minutes.
Student visas are far more generously given than work visas.
“All hate crimes are hoaxes,” read the flyer distributed by a white supremacist group at Keene State College last March.
