Laconia News

A judge has ordered a city man who ran for state Senate last year to pay at least $20,000 to his ex-wife and her attorney in a divorce dispute.

The introduction of a polygraph machine to verify the honesty of the winner of this year's Winni Derby salmon contest was a good idea, participants in the derby said Saturday.

A trip up the Mt. Washington Auto Road is always a memorable experience, and with so many different ways to enjoy the journey, no two trips are the same.

For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment.

House budget writers expect to vote Wednesday on a bill legalizing one casino in the state of New Hampshire.

The garden between the sidewalk and the foundation of the house was approximately two feet wide and 15 feet long.

Twenty-one-year-old Scott Coburn of Laconia was arrested following the incident Sunday night on a reckless conduct charge.

The rain that fell Wednesday may have spoiled a string of beautiful spring days, but it was welcomed by fire safety officials in the state who have been fighting what has become a difficult spring fire season.

The following letters were in response to an article about reform of the EPA's Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule.

City officials are moving quickly to place signage warning motorists they may encounter students as they approach the intersection of Messer Street and Opechee Street, where Lily Johnson lost her life and Alyssa Miner was severely injured when they were struck by an SUV last month.

A 64-year-old convicted sexual offender is now facing charges of rape, with police accusing him of sexually assaulting a mentally disabled man.

Laconia, New Hampshire From May 16th to May 19th, The NASWA Resort will be celebrating their annualNASWA Fishing Invitational, which coincides with the 31st annual Winni Derby.

Police and fire personnel were dispatched to 2889 Parade Road at 4:49 p.m. on a report of a single-car crash.

Laconia Fire Capt. Bob Landry said about seven acres are burning between Weirs Boulevard and White Oaks Road, in a wooded area behind the Racquet Club.

A Lowell man who was portrayed as one of Dicky Eklund's friends in the movie The Fighter is being held on $1,000 cash bail in a county jail charged with spitting in the face of a Belmont, New Hampshire police sergeant.

For more than 40 years, beginning in 1895, musical humorist Charles Ross Taggart performed in lyceum and Chautauqua circuits throughout the United States, making 40 recordings with the Victor, Edison and Columbia companies and appeared in a 1923 Phono-Film "talkie." Living history presenter and fiddler Adam Boyce of Vermont brings the celebrated ... (more)

A New Hampshire teenager is out of the hospital more than a week after she was hurt in a vehicle accident that killed her friend.

The Somersworth Police Department reported the following activity from April 14-17.Sunday, April 14Austin Glazier, 23, of 640 Suncook Valley Road, Alton, was arrested on a town warrant.

Firefighters say a two-alarm blaze in a barn Sunday afternoon caused an estimated $1 million in damage.

A motorcycle business in New Hampshire is commemorating the 90th anniversary of Motorcycle Week in Laconia by starting a campaign to raise $30,000 for the Boys & Girls Club of the Lakes Region.