A conservative group's effort to push for a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage has met with mixed results.

A two-year-old law that guarantees municipal and school workers raises even when their contracts expire is just now starting to make itself felt at town and school district meetings.

A couple celebrating their wedding anniversary in the White Mountains returned to their Windham home badly damaged by a fire Sunday morning.

Town Meeting, home to plaid shirts, plow budgets and building projects, has an unfamiliar topic driving people to the microphone this year - a resolution that, ultimately, wants to send gay marriage to a binding statewide vote in the fall.

The president's plan to jolt the stalled job market with an infusion of credit and business tax credits resonated with employers, employees and the unemployed yesterday.

When 9-year-old Hannah Gosselin of Methuen put 50 cents into a vending machine at the Market Basket in Riversedge Plaza, she was hoping for some rub-on tattoos.

Selectmen will hear a report tonight on the cost and feasibility of hooking the Canobie Lake, Cobbetts Pond and Route 111 neighborhoods into Salem's sewer line.

Susanne Vigneau , owner of Annie's Nannies in North Andover, chats with Patricia Kungie, a full-time nanny.

Once the snow melts, local farmers are hoping the weather stays drier this season than it has for the last five years.

Warm your soul with a bowl of soup for a good cause - and keep the hand-crafted bowl afterward.

Rockingham County prosecutors are awaiting word on whether a twice-convicted sex offender accused of raping a Windham boy in the 1980s could still go to trial after questions of his mental competency brought his case to a halt.

Lauren April of Auburn won the top honors at the 6th Annual Miss New Hampshire's Outstanding Teen Competition on Sunday, January 17, 2010.

Dollars, rice and medicine are flowing from the hands of Southern New Hampshire residents to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

About a foot of snow has fallen on the region over the last few days, making roads slick and causing several minor car accidents.

Candidates are eagerly awaiting local races as the filing period for school and town offices opens today.

Opponents of same-sex marriage have completed petitions to put discussion of a constitutional marriage amendment on the warrant at 93 town meetings, according to a state representative organizing the drive.

It's the Super Bowl of soup and a great way to enjoy some local flavor while making a difference in the lives of area citizens in need.

The architecture firm that designed Nashua's high schools is now being lauded for its work on a neighboring school.

A growing number of New Hampshire towns have accepted town meeting petitions that would allow residents to express support for a constitutional amendment to overturn the state's equal marriage law.

Residents throughout Southern New Hampshire will cast ballots later this winter on a resolution that, ultimately, seeks to put gay marriage to a binding statewide vote in the fall.