All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 17 2010 // The investigation into a series of explosions at a gun and ammunition manufacturing plant in far northern New Hampshire that killed two people has led to one machine, the state’s fire marshal said Saturday.Bill...
May 6 2010 // The New Hampshire House votes Wednesday whether to make boat speed limits permanent on the state’s largest lake. The House will consider a Senate bill that raises the daytime limit to 50 mph and the nighttime limit...
Apr 28 2010 // Federal officials want to review a New Hampshire collision that killed four people, three in a Toyota Highlander. The Boston Globe reports the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration received two consumer complaints...
Apr 12 2010 // Firefighters in Hampton Beach put out a fire at a multifamily home only to be called back for a second fire 30 minutes later. Authorities say the first blaze broke out about 4:30 a.m. Thursday. The second one occurred...
Apr 8 2010 // Maine-based Acadia Insurance Co. has named Leonard J. Ryer as its new regional vice president for the insurer’s New Hampshire operations.Ryer will help to develop and monitor the overall underwriting, marketing, loss...
Apr 5 2010 // An investigator looking at a massive fire in February that destroyed a block of buildings along New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach estimates the damage to be at least $9.5 million. Hampton Fire Prevention Officer Jon True...
Mar 22 2010 // An investigator looking at last month’s fire that destroyed a block of buildings along New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach estimates the damage to be at least $9.5 million. Hampton Fire Prevention Officer Jon True...
Mar 10 2010 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its ruling rejecting the state’s claim to $110 million surplus from a fund that underwrites medical malpractice insurance.Gov. John Lynch spokesman Colin...
Mar 3 2010 // A fire that started in an unoccupied oceanfront hotel was fanned by hurricane-force winds and spread to several nearby buildings, engulfing and destroying an entire block of businesses on a stretch of Hampton Beach popular...
Feb 16 2010 // A Massachusetts man has filed a lawsuit blaming the New Hampshire Department of Transportation and the town of Windham for a car crash during the massive December 2008 ice storm. Steven Ford of Lawrence, Mass., claims...
Feb 11 2010 // New Hampshire is asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider rejecting its claim to $110 million in surplus from a fund that underwrites medical malpractice insurance. In a 3-2 decision last month, the court upheld...
Jan 28 2010 // New Hampshire’s highest court has ruled that state lawmakers cannot raid $110 million in reserves from the Joint Underwriting Association, which underwrites medical malpractice insurance in the state.The Supreme...
Jan 25 2010 // New Hampshire is dipping into its savings — rather than a fund that underwrites malpractice insurance — for $80 million to close the books on the fiscal year that ended June 30.The state wanted to take $65...
Jan 12 2010 // The New Hampshire House is holding hearings on two bills today that would prevent the state from requiring sprinklers in homes. The bills would stop the state from enforcing amendments to building codes that expand...
Jan 5 2010 // The New Hampshire Legislature is expected to consider two bills that would prevent the state from enforcing amendments to building codes that expand requirements for sprinkler systems.Last month the Building Code Review...
Dec 18 2009 // A new portion of the New Hampshire building codes will require that sprinkler systems be installed in all new homes.WMUR-TV said the New Hampshire State Building Code Review Board voted to require sprinklers in every newly...
Dec 8 2009 // The federal government is offering rewards to help solve a string of arson fires that have plagued the city of Berlin for almost four years. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says anyone who...
Nov 23 2009 // New Hampshire is promoting safe holidays with a new campaign against driving drunk or drugged. More than 200 state officials are expected to attend the campaign’s launch at the governor’s annual highway safety...
Nov 12 2009 // New Hampshire authorities have created a new Web site that allows the public to anonymously report companies believed to have misclassified workers as independent contractors. The site is part of an effort by the...
Nov 9 2009 // One of the huge pine trees that surrounded Sieglinde Poegel’s home of 42 years crashed through the roof and landed in her living room during the ice storm that crippled much of the Northeast last December.“It...