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Music Hall must make it right. NH doesn't need death…
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Seacoastonline - New Hampshire
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The Music Hall sets a dangerous precedent Oct. 13 − To the Editor: I am deeply troubled by The Portsmouth Music Hall's decision to cancel the Lovering Health Center's annual fundraising event just six days before it was scheduled to take place....
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
34 hospital M&As finalized in 2025
From HCA adding hospitals in New Hampshire and Florida to Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic Health System finalizing their 56-hospital merger, here are 34 hospital mergers and acquisitions completed in 2025: 1. Hopkinsville, Ky.-based Jennie...
Owner: Jessica Cole
Underage vape sales: Teen claims shops rarely check IDs
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A child dabbling with substances under the legal age — and keeping it a secret, knowing they were doing something wrong and against the law. A St. Louis mom says she was blindsided when she discovered her teenage...
Owner: Gray Television Inc.
New Hampshire school districts being asked to pay more to cover employee health care costs
Nearly 90 school districts and communities across the Granite State will be asked to pay more money in order to cover the costs for employee health care.SchoolCare is a New Hampshire-based nonprofit, formed in response to issues of providing...
Owner: Hearst Family
Gary Hart’s scandal brought down a candidate and changed how political journalism covers private lives
Rick Edmonds, Poynter’s longtime media business analyst, completed this story shortly before his death on Oct. 5. A stakeout of a candidate’s townhome. A rude question about his sex life at a press conference. A damning photo of an attractive...
Owner: The Poynter Institute for Media Studies
American Airlines Cuts LAX To JFK Route Short As 7 Passengers Fall Ill While Pilots Use Oxygen Masks To Fly Plane
It has been a tough couple of days for American Airlines, with several flights disrupted. American Airlines was dealing with several delays and cancellations due to the nor'easter. American Airlines and the other major U.S. carriers did provide...
Owner: Sam Youseff
Speaking of Words: How Many Words Could English Have?
Speaking of Words By MICHAEL FERBER, Speaking of Words If you count chemical names such as dimethylformamide and monothioglycerol, or medicines such as rivaroxaban and zanubrutinib, you would think the number of possible English words is...
Owner: New Hampshire Center For Public Interest Journalism
Federal Government Shuts Down: What To Know In New Hampshire
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are expected to be furloughed or fired after Congress failed to reach a budget agreement. Posted Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 9:59 am ET About 750,000 federal workers, including some from New Hampshire, are expected...
Owner: Charles “Charlie” C. Hale
Two Medicare Advantage providers will leave New Hampshire
Sign up for the Concord Monitor's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Two of the five companies offering Medicare Advantage plans in New Hampshire are leaving and the others are sharply cutting their offerings for 2026 as part of...
Owner: Dwight Family
How power is won and held, in New Hampshire and the nation
First, you tap into racism. Several decades ago, Republican campaign consultant Lee Atwater described how, as The Nation put it, “Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves.” Atwater outlined the “Southern Strategy”...
Owner: States Newsroom Network
Enterprise: New hires, accolades for Upper Valley health care providers
Overview: Enterprise: New hires, accolades for Upper Valley health care providers Dartmouth Health, Gifford Health and other health care providers have announced several leadership changes, promotions, and new employees across various...
Owner: Dwight Family
Opinion: Community health center closures show what Medicaid cuts really mean
Sign up for the Concord Monitor's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. New Hampshire’s community health centers are on the frontlines of care, but right now we are confronting a crisis. With the passage of New Hampshire’s 2026-2027...
Owner: Dwight Family
$7.3M Grant Powers The New England Consortium to Protect Health and Safety of Frontline Workers
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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What started as hazardous materials training 35 years ago has grown into an expansive hands-on education program that helps hundreds of thousands of workers across New England stay safe on the job. This proven track record helped The New England...
Owner: University of Massachusetts Lowell
How will the federal shutdown affect New Hampshire? Here's what we know so far.
Key points: Gov. Kelly Ayotte says state operations can withstand a shutdown that lasts 30 days or less. Food assistance benefits are scheduled through October, but a longer shutdown could affect future benefits. Advocates say school meal programs...
Owner: Vermont Public Co. & American Government
Children at schools throughout the U.S. could lose local health protections from pesticides
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Environmental Working Group
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Thousands of U.S. schools are near farms where harmful pesticides may be sprayed, an EWG analysis finds. But some members of Congress want to block states and local governments’ right to warn parents and protect students from the health risks of...
Owner: Environmental Working Group (Non-profit)
Ending the shutdown and keeping health insurance affordable must trump partisan politics
The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not set policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. As the federal government shutdown drags into a second...
Owner: Towle-Warren Family
Some Massachusetts doctors are sending patients to New Hampshire for imaging. Here’s why.
This past summer, one of Dr. Amy Boutwell’s patients needed an imaging test done, but Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, which is down the road from her practice in the Boston suburb of Lexington, Massachusetts, told her it would be a five-month...
Owner: States Newsroom Network
Why NJ’s Halloween Ranking Is So Surprising
You would think that with all the decorations you see around the state, New Jersey is a top Halloween state, but is it? Is New Jersey One Of America's Biggest Halloween States? We've all done it. Walk into Home Depot or any big-box store, and the...
Owner: Townsquare Media
NH venue cancels abortion provider’s fundraiser, citing security concerns
Sign up for the Valley News' morning newsletter and get essential news each day. The Music Hall in Portsmouth has canceled a fundraiser for a Seacoast-based abortion provider, just six days before it was scheduled to occur, citing security...
Owner: Dwight Family
How government shutdown affects federal facilities, workers in New Hampshire
The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday after members of Congress failed to reach a compromise to keep the government funded.Proposals from Democrats and Republicans to keep the government funded both fell short of the 60 votes...
Owner: Hearst Family