Alton News

A decision by selectmen to fire police Lt. Ed Correia in March 2007 has been upheld by Belknap County Superior Court Judge Larry Smukler, who ruled that the town had sufficient reason to fire Correia and did ...

Moderate Democratic Gov. John Lynch won a third two-year term in a landslide Tuesday.

If Election Day were tomorrow, instead of today, I would have squeezed in a letter to the editor from Mary McNeil of Sutton urging you to vote for Merrimack County Register of Deeds Kathi Guay.

While the unemployment rate for the United States has been at 6 percent or higher for the past three months, the latest statistics from New Hampshire Employment Security show that this state's economy is ...

Two high school students are charged in Alton, N.H., with causing more than $5,000 damage to their school by activating the fire sprinkler system.

The man who raped a 75-year-old grandmother the night before Easter in 1991 has been released from prison and is living in Manchester, according to authorities.

Updated, 9:17 a.m. Two men were arrested this morning after a high speed chase through the city, starting downtown and ending in the North End, police said.

Daryl Carlson/Citizen photo Former Laconia Ward 5 Moderator Maurice Fecteau, right, has been visiting Lakes Region nursing homes to help seniors, including Abby Paget, pictured here, with absentee ballots.

A problem with the sprinkler system has sent students at the high school in Alton, N.H., home for the day.

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE Art Educators' Association recently named Chichester Central School instructor Irene Derosier the state's art educator of the year.

New Hampshire will receive $3.1 million from federal authorities to reimburse the state for damage done to roads in all counties, with the exception of Carroll, during the Patriot's Day storm in 2007.

More than 10,000 residential customers and businesses lost power after a tractor-trailer truck struck a utility pole along Route 11 early Monday morning.

Firefighters from six area departments battled a two-alarm fire Monday afternoon that damaged a building at 370 Main St.

Raymond P. "Bub" Chapman, 60, of Pittsfield, died Oct. 12, 2008, at the Concord Regional Visiting Nurses Hospice House in Concord.

A grease fire caused a stir and a lot of smoke, but was quickly dealt with Wednesday evening.

A police lieutenant who was fired last year in Alton, New Hampshire, will get a new public hearing following a state Supreme Court ruling.

Two men are facing the possibility of receiving the death penalty in New Hampshire, a state that hasn't put a prisoner to death in nearly 70 years.

How do you write a song? I can't really relate to how some of the guys in Nashville do it.

As parishioners from all over New Hampshire gathered at St. Katharine Drexel in Alton recently to remember Founding Pastor Fr.

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services today announced the first positive test this year for eastern equine encephalitis .