All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 27 2022 // The trial for a commercial truck driver charged with causing the deaths in 2019 of seven members of a Marine motorcycle club will open Tuesday, more than three years after the crash in northern New Hampshire.Jurors visited...
Jul 25 2022 // Health care facilities in New Hampshire will have to implement and maintain workplace violence prevention programs under a new law.Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed seven bills into law this week, including a Senate bill...
Jul 22 2022 // Two long-time New Hampshire insurance agencies— The Insurance Center based in Claremont and McCrillis & Eldredge in Newport— announced that their companies are joining forces.The combined organization will continue...
Jul 20 2022 // Investigators were unable to pinpoint the cause of a fire that damaged a popular North Conway resort, New Hampshire Fire Marshal Sean Toomey said last Friday.The determination came after officials examined the scene and...
Jul 18 2022 // A federal court in New Hampshire has denied gunmaker Sig Sauer’s bid to block a product liability lawsuit brought by a man who alleges he was struck by a bullet in the leg because his pistol fired without a trigger...
Jul 15 2022 // New Hampshire homeland security officials said that a siren was inadvertently activated at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station on Tuesday, and that there is no emergency and no danger to the public.The state Homeland...
Jun 17 2022 // A domestic violence charge against New Hampshire’s deputy insurance commissioner has been dropped. D.J. Bettencourt, who also was a former policy director for Gov. Chris Sununu, was arrested May 5 and accused of...
Jun 9 2022 // A worker who was injured in a car accident when he was traveling home from his job site in the middle, rather than the end, of the workday at the direction of his employer is entitled to workers’ compensation...
May 23 2022 // CONWAY, N.H. — A forest fire in northern New Hampshire that’s burned 106 acres was nearly contained, officials said Friday. The Bemis Fire in Crawford Notch State Park, the White Mountain National Forest, and...
May 17 2022 // BARTLETT, N.H. — Firefighters in New Hampshire are battling a large forest fire that burned hundreds of acres in the White Mountains this past weekend.The U.S. Forest Service said federal, state and local personnel...
May 13 2022 // Crews on Tuesday were battling an estimated 45-acre brush fire in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest and said it might have been caused by a person who started the fire for warmth or cooking.The fire was...
May 10 2022 // The number of dams in in New Hampshire most at risk of failing has increased 51% in the past three years, according to an Associated Press analysis.The state saw its numbers of high hazard dams in either poor or...
May 5 2022 // Guest rooms at a New Hampshire hotel that was heavily damaged by fire had smoke alarms, in addition to a fire alarm system heat detector, state Fire Marshal Sean Toomey said Tuesday.The main hallways of the Red Jacket...
May 3 2022 // Three people were injured in a windswept fire that ripped through a landmark North Conway, New Hampshire hotel Saturday afternoon.Two were firefighters who were battling the blaze at the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort in...
Apr 28 2022 // Two New Hampshire restaurants in Derry and Londonderry and their owner have agreed to pay $890,169 to 63 employees to resolve numerous violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act following a U.S. Department of Labor...
Apr 6 2022 // New Hampshire released an expanded list Tuesday of police officers who it determined may have credibility concerns due to a range of infractions from excessive force to lying.The list of 174 officers, released following...
Apr 4 2022 // New Hampshire landowners who make their properties available to the public for recreation at no charge do not enjoy complete immunity under the state’s recreational use statute. Landowners have immunity from...
Mar 30 2022 // An Ossipee, New Hampshire police officer failed in his bid to have an excessive force and unlawful arrest complaint against him dismissed based on his contention he is entitled to qualified immunity protection.A federal...
Mar 29 2022 // New Hampshire is looking for a commercial insurance carrier to fully insure and administer the Granite State Paid Family and Medical Leave Plan.The plan provides participating employees in New Hampshire with 60% of their...
Mar 15 2022 // A new, federally funded program will provide relief to eligible homeowners struggling to pay their mortgage, property taxes, utility bills, and other costs during the coronavirus pandemic, New Hampshire authorities said...