Laconia Sets Aside $20,000 for Policing the Homeless in City Parks

Tragedies and near tragedies have often been caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. The most recent incident in New Hampshire occurred in the City of Manchester affecting an entire family living in an apartment building. Podcast producer Roger Wood enlisted the expertise of Joanne E Miles-Holmes of the New Hampshire Department...

CONCORD – Attorney General John Formella announced Thursday that the investigation into the disappearance of Harmony Montgomery, 5, of Manchester, is now being investigated as a homicide. Harmony was missing in late 2019, but police were not notified for two years and began searching Manchester for her in late...

Manchester, NH, August 12, 2022 – The Currier Museum of Art recently acquired five Gee’s Bend quilts through a generous gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, in combination with museum funds. An exhibition of these quilts opened this week and are now on display. In a small...

Update: At a brief news conference at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Senior Assistant Attorney General Geoffrey Ward said the law allows for prosecutors to petition the court to certify the juvenile as an adult at which time the proceeding would be public. Ward wouldn’t say if the state plans to file such a petition. Ward wouldn’t release the age of the juvenile.

CONCORD – A retired Nashua police officer has filed a professional conduct complaint against Attorney General John Formella for saying truck driver Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was guilty after a jury found him not guilty on all counts Tuesday in the crash deaths of seven motorcyclists three years ago. Anthony Pivero,...

Attorney General John M. Formella announces that his office has concluded its review of the circumstances surrounding (a) the 188 uncast absentee ballots Bedford election officials discovered following the November 2020 General Election and (b) the November 2020 General Election ballots that were discovered prior to opening of the polling place for the Special Election on September 7, 2021.

CONCORD – The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee agreed Wednesday to allow Attorney General John Formella to withdraw his proposed claims process for the $100 million settlement fund for victims of abuse while children at the Youth Development Center with plans to resubmit it with changes at a later date.

LANCASTER – Within minutes of jurors finding Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not guilty Tuesday in the horrific crash that killed seven motorcyclists three years ago, Gov. Chris Sununu and Attorney General John Formella issued separate statements critical of the verdicts. The NH Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers issued a statement criticizing...

A school bus driver is accused of blackmailing a Seacoast child and stalking his family, even putting tracking devices on the parents’ cars so he would know when they went to the police, and walking around their home at night several times without their knowledge. Michael Chick, 40, is...

CONCORD – Gov. Chris Sununu said Belknap County Delegation members who did not show up for a meeting to deal with the crisis at the county-owned Gunstock Mountain recreation area Monday night have “made it easy” for county residents to vote them out of office in the coming elections.

After all the officers in the Barrington Police Department received $5,000 retention bonuses, the town is considering more bonuses for all full-time employees. “We’re concerned about retention,” said Selectboard Chair Dan Mannschreck. In June, the board approved using $70,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to give out...

CONCORD – Climate activists took to the State House lawn in nearly 100-degree heat Thursday to call on voters to hold their future governor and legislators accountable and engage them to reject the big political money of fossil fuel companies and utilities. While electric bills for most in New...

LANCASTER – The first defense witness Thursday, Adam Bartley of Jefferson, testified he didn’t see any weaving or swerving when driving behind Volodymyr Zhukovskyy’s truck and trailer June 21, 2019, the day he is accused of killing seven motorcyclists on Route 2 in Randolph. The defense was...

GILFORD – Ten of the 18 Republican House members who serve as the Belknap County Delegation met to deal with the emergency at Gunstock Monday night, voting 9 to 1 to accept the resignation of Gunstock Area Commissioner Dr. David Strang of Gilmanton. State Rep. Thomas Ploszaj, R-Center Harbor,...

CONCORD – The thought that President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware could replace New Hampshire as the first-in-the-nation primary state is “an insult,” Gov. Chris Sununu said Wednesday. The governor answered reporters’ questions during a number of bill signings at the State House and around...

It’s time to muse joyfully on Bennie the dog. Bennie took some time out of his schedule to sit down and talk with us here at InDepthNH. This is Part 1 of a two-part series. InDepthNH: Bennie, this is your first summer as a really big boy, you’re almost two years old. How is it going?

GILFORD – Gunstock Area Commissioner Doug Lambert said Gov. Chris Sununu has done nothing to help re-open Gunstock Mountain Resort and has actually made matters worse. Lambert said he has been too busy helping to keep Gunstock moving forward to look into the $500 check the Gunstock Area Commission gave in 2020 to Gov. Sununu’s campaign and called it a “side issue.”

LANCASTER – Days after the fatal crash that killed seven members of the Jarheads Motorcycle Club, State Police detectives interviewed Volodymyr Zhukovskyy for more than two hours, getting him to admit while he was visibly in drug withdrawal that he was responsible for the crash. Jurors in Coos County...

GILFORD – With Gunstock Area Commission Chairman Peter Hess resigning Friday, and the former management team of Gunstock Mountain Resort indicating they would come back to work immediately if Dr. David Strang also resigns, the remaining two members gave Strang until 5 p.m. to resign and pleaded with legislators and the public to make that happen.

The New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council announced the untimely death of a recruit of the 190th full-time Police Academy in Concord. The recruit’s death, which occurred off academy grounds, does not appear to be suspicious in nature. It is currently being investigated and the Police Standards and Training Council has requested the assistance of the New Hampshire Department of Safety Division of State Police.