New Hampshire

Despite rising COVID-19 cases, Gov. Chris Sununu will not issue a statewide mask mandate in New Hampshire schools.

There will be no statewide mask mandates or COVID-19 guidelines for kids heading back to school in New Hampshire this fall. Gov. Chris Sununu says even the CDC guidelines are a bit too severe for the Granite State right now. “At this point, there is no need for students to be wearing masks. The numbers are just that low,” Sununu…

With increasing hospitalizations and mounting COVID-19 case numbers prompted by the Delta variant, municipalities across the country have re-imposed mask mandates and other public health mitigations. Local leaders in at least five states, including California and Nevada, have reinstated mask requirements, issued facial covering recommendations or threatened the return of strict public health limits for all residents. On a national...

A lawsuit filed earlier this month accuses the head of the Roman Catholic Church in New Hampshire of committing sexual abuse decades ago while he served as a priest in New York.

After his boat capsized off the coast of New Hampshire, Gloucester sailor Tom Cox is recalling how he was rescued. After sailing his 42-foot trimaran for 29 years, Cox was overconfident on Friday, he told NBC10 Boston Wednesday, thinking his boat, the Triad, was fast enough to outrun an incoming storm. “On the horizon, we saw cumulus clouds and rain…

After a wild water rescue off the coast of New Hampshire, the captain of a capsized boat is speaking out.

Police in New Hampshire have located person who had gone missing, prompting a Silver alert. New Hampshire State Police said Wednesday that 61-year-old Shawn Kelly McConaha of Franklin had bee located and was doig well. He last seen leaving his Timberland Drive home around noon Tuesday. Police did not provide a physical description of McConaha, but they released a photo…

For a while, it seemed like the rain would never stop in New Hampshire. Paul “Hutch” Hutchinson could only watch the radar on his phone as wave after wave of rain passed over his Jaffrey home. “I was bailing out what I could and was watching the doppler as more and more, every hour or so another thunderstorm would come…

For a while, it seemed like the rain would never stop in New Hampshire. Paul “Hutch” Hutchinson could only watch the radar on his phone as wave after wave of rain passed over his Jaffrey home. “I was bailing out what I could and was watching the doppler as more and more, every hour or so another thunderstorm would come…

Some New Hampshire residents say it seemed like the rain would never stop Sunday.

As the death toll continues to rise in the Surfside condo collapse, a local fire chief is providing a first-hand account of the recovery efforts. Sean Brown, a fire chief in Concord, New Hampshire, just spent 15 days at the site in Florida and spoke with NBC10 Boston on Sunday about what he saw. “It did in some ways remind…

Sean Brown just spent 15 days at the collapsed condo site in Florida.

The heavy rainfall that hit New England washed out some roads and bridges and flooded basements. A bridge in Brattleboro, Vermont, was completely washed out, Charles Keir III, assistant fire chief, told the Brattleboro Reformer on Sunday. Brattleboro received about 2.5 inches of rainfall during Saturday afternoon and night, the fire department said. In West Haven, Vermont, the Devil’s Bowl Speedway...

Three people were rescued from the water Friday off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a beacon on a 42-foot sail boat that overturned. The people were on the bottom of the boat when rescuers arrived. “A vessel is significantly easier to spot in the ocean than a person,” Lt. Robert Turley, the...

A New Hampshire man accused of assault has been arrested after leading authorities on a boat chase across Lake Winnipesaukee on Thursday.

This week’s MLB Draft saw two former Exeter High School stars joining baseball organizations.

A hot air balloon pilot died after he fell from it on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont Thursday. Four passengers survived.

Four people were shot in a drive-by shooting in Manchester, New Hampshire, Friday morning, police said.

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The Granite State offers a solid education system. But roads and bridges, and the electrical grid, are soft spots.