CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Members of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation have introduced a bill to designate parts of rivers in the state and in Massachusetts as scenic rivers under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

The bill would create an advisory committee that works with ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Members of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation say they appreciate that President Donald Trump touched on issues in his State of the Union address such as high prescription drugs costs and infrastructure investment, but they’re disappointed he didn’t rule out shutting ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s congressional delegation is proposing the creation of a commemorative coin to honor Christa McAuliffe, the Concord High School teacher who died in the NASA space shuttle Challenger disaster 33 years ago.

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan introduced ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Senate president, Donna Soucy, is among at least 34 women nationwide to hold a top legislative spot this year. It’s a new role for her but not an unfamiliar scenario for the state.

In 1999, New Hampshire became the first state to have a female governor ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is visiting organizations that provide shelter and food to discuss the impacts of the partial government shutdown.

Hassan is visiting the Nashua Soup Kitchen on Friday, which relies on programs within the USDA to supply food ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has introduced a bill that would prohibit pharmaceutical companies from claiming tax deductions for consumer advertising expenses.

Under current law, drug manufacturers are allowed to deduct the cost of advertising expenses ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is hosting an organizing event in New Hampshire for her 2020 presidential exploratory committee this weekend.

The event is scheduled Saturday afternoon at Manchester Community College. The announcement was advertised ...

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — The University of New Hampshire is getting nearly $4 million to research the development of a plan for a comprehensive and coordinated early childhood care and education system.

The Preschool Development Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services was ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan are backing a bill that would prevent new red tape from being imposed on small businesses following a court decision on collecting sales taxes from online shopping.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling will allow states to ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Some U.S. senators, including New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, want Senate leadership to take action before the end of the year to protect small businesses from red tape following a court decision on collecting sales taxes from online shopping.

The ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Most of New Hampshire’s living former governors are backing the re-election of Secretary of State Bill Gardner.

Lawmakers will decide on Dec. 5 whether to give Gardner a 22nd two-year term or give the position to fellow Democrat Colin Van Ostern, a former executive ...

HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers’ work plan for Fiscal Year 2019 includes $4.6 million to dredge the Hampton-Seabrook Harbor.

The New Hampshire congressional delegation has repeatedly called for the Corps to dredge the harbor. They say severe shoaling has made the water ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Republican governor has joined Democratic congressional members in expressing concern over Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ proposed overhaul to the way colleges and universities handle sexual misconduct complaints.

Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Annie ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Entrepreneurs looking for help turning innovative ideas into thriving businesses can attend a forum in Manchester this month.

U.S. Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is hosting the Innovate NH Entrepreneurship Forum on Nov. 13 at Manchester Community College. The event will ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Members of New Hampshire’s Democratic congressional delegation are urging residents to carefully consider their health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act.

The open enrollment period for the Obama-era health overhaul law ends Dec. 15. The same three ...

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — The University of New Hampshire is getting nearly $800,000 for a program that seeks to boost U.S. seafood production.

The money from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund an aquaculture training program that will recruit fishermen and farmers ...

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Members of New Hampshire’s Congressional delegation were among those honoring slain journalist James Foley at a 5k race in Rochester.

The 4th annual Foley Foundation 5k Freedom Run was held Saturday. It raises money for a foundation Foley’s parents created after ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected any sort of pre-trial release for a former congressional staffer accused of posting online the home addresses of Republican senators backing Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is set to get $650,000 in grants to support victims of sexual assault.

The state’s Democratic congressional delegation says that the grant money comes from the National Institute of Justice at the U.S. Department of Justice. More than $316,000 will go to ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s senators are unhappy with the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Democratic Sen. Jean Shaheen said Saturday that the confirmation process has left the nation more divided than before, and she said “we can’t let this become the status ...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan raised concerns this week about a proposal to move a U.S. post office from downtown Portsmouth.

The Portsmouth Herald

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Houston Democratic congresswoman has fired an unpaid intern after he was arrested by the U.S. Capitol police, accused of posting online the home addresses of Republican senators backing Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

The Dallas Morning News

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former staffer for New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan has been charged with posting private, identifying information about one or more senators on the internet amid the impassioned fight over whether to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Capitol ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Houston Democratic congresswoman has fired an unpaid intern after he was arrested by the U.S. Capitol police for allegedly posting online the home addresses of Republican senators backing Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

The Dallas Morning News

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Democratic U.S. senators are introducing separate but related legislation aimed at lowering health care costs.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s bill would cap the amount that hospitals could charge uninsured patients or patients with individual market coverage who ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Several members of New Hampshire’s Congressional delegation are echoing calls by their fellow Democrats to have the FBI investigate sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh testified Thursday to the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

ATKINSON, N.H. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan is speaking at ceremonies honoring fallen New Hampshire soldiers.

The senator on Saturday spoke at a morning dedication of a bridge on the Atkinson-Plaistow border in honor of Dimitrios Gavriel. Gavriel joined the Marines following ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The state’s Democratic congressional delegation says that New Hampshire is getting more than $2.8 million in federal grants to help homeless veterans.

The funding will go toward two New Hampshire nonprofit organizations, Veterans Inc. in Concord and Harbor Homes in ...

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Several members of New Hampshire’s Democratic Congressional delegation have announced a grant aimed at improving transportation networks in Dover.

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan and Rep. Carol Shea-Porter said the $649,000 grant will improve the city’s ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on New Hampshire’s U.S. senators opposing the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court (all times local):

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Both of New Hampshire’s Democratic U.S. senators have announced their opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett ...

BOSCAWEN, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire military units, police and fire departments and honor guards from across the state are participating in an annual program that honors veterans with nightly soundings of taps.

For the 100 Nights of Remembrance, participants sound taps at the New Hampshire ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Manchester’s former police chief is now New Hampshire’s U.S. marshal.

The Senate unanimously confirmed Nick Willard as U.S. marshal for the state of New Hampshire on Tuesday.

The state’s Democratic senators praised the move. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen says Willard’s ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan are among Senate Democrats requesting a delay of nomination hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, saying the Senate should be provided records that indicate his views on executive power.

Shaheen said there ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Members of New Hampshire’s Democratic Congressional delegation say the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller needs to continue without interference following the conviction of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman and guilty plea from his former ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Democratic Congressional delegation criticized the Trump administration efforts to scale back restrictions on climate-changing emissions from coal-fired power plants, calling it a threat to the health and safety of the state’s residents.

The Trump plan ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire will receive a $16 million grant to improve water infrastructure and ensure the supply of clean drinking water.

The state’s Democratic Congressional delegation announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was providing the grant to the New Hampshire ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Democratic congressional delegation is urging the new veterans affairs secretary to quickly implement recommendations to improve the state’s only VA medical center.

Top officials from the Manchester VA Medical Center were removed last year after the ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Democrats Maggie Hassan and Annie Kuster are part of a bipartisan group sponsoring a bill that targets counterfeit pill makers.

The bill allows the U.S. attorney general to create a registry of machines that are used to manufacture pills. This would ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Democratic congressional delegation used words like “troubling” and “shameful” to describe President Donald Trump’s decision Monday to question his own intelligence agencies’ conclusions that Russia was to blame for meddling in the 2016 U.S. ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Democratic U.S. senators have announced a nearly $400,000 grant to fund community service programs in the state.

Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan said the Corporation for National and Community Service awarded Goodwill Industries of Northern New England ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Democratic U.S. senators say they will look to see that President Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court will protect the civil rights and freedoms in the Constitution.

Both Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan emphasized the independence of the ...

PLAISTOW, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire construction company has received a $13 million contract with the U.S. Navy to upgrade dry dock pumping facilities related to the docking and undocking of submarines at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Methuen Construction in Plaistow secured the federal ...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — More than 100 people have celebrated Independence Day in New Hampshire by becoming U.S. citizens.

The Wednesday naturalization ceremony took place at at Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth as part of the museum’s annual “American Celebration.”

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is getting more than $4 million in AmeriCorps funding.

The money is coming from the Corporation for National and Community Service, which administers the federal program and others. The amount will support 298 AmeriCorps members in the state at City Year ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Democratic intern has been suspended for shouting an expletive at President Donald Trump.

WMUR-TV has been told Monday night that Caitlin Marriott, who ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Democratic Congressional delegation says President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the policy of separating families fails to protect those children who were already taken from their parents at the border.

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan ...