CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu said a Recovery Friendly Workplace national institute will be a clearinghouse for the best practices on how to reduce substance abuse in states across the country.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
Even during summer heat waves, Santa’s Village gives patrons a fuzzy Christmas feel.
CONCORD — Attorney General John Formella said Tuesday that New Hampshire has launched its own lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, accusing the social media giant of using marketing methods that mentally and physically harm young children.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
CONCORD — An executive councilor said it’s “absolutely inappropriate” that violent disturbances at the Hampstead Hospital Residential Treatment Facility have outstripped local and state law enforcement manpower.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
Storytelling groups at libraries and senior centers, where older adults gather to “remember together.”
NASHUA — Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday if elected he would take from the FBI and give to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) the lead role in a federal crackdown against illegal fentanyl use in America.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
CONCORD — Karen Prive of Franklin said she had suicidal thoughts since she was age 6 and it took a network of volunteers and first responders to help her silence the voices and even inanimate objects that urged she kill herself.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
An executive councilor is calling for more transparency on out-of-state placements for troubled juveniles after New Hampshire officials pulled two boys out of a Tennessee facility that New Hampshire’s child advocate said “operates on a culture of fear and intimidation.”
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
More Manchester teachers than usual quit their jobs late in the summer rather than return to the classroom this coming school year, forcing administrators to fill unexpected teaching gaps.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu and top state officials broke ground Thursday on a landmark project — building a more humane residence for the mentally ill considered too dangerous to stay at New Hampshire Hospital (NHH) in Concord.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
The former resident of a Manchester homeless shelter who shot and killed a fellow resident will spend the next five years in a psychiatric facility, authorities said.
A judge has ordered that Akwasi Owusu, the young man found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2020 stabbing of three Manchester cops, be released from the state prison psychiatric facility.
WASHINGTON — Permanently placing all fentanyl analogs on the federal drug schedule would help law enforcement deal with growing opioid deaths in New Hampshire, according to Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
The state has a 12-month deadline to end the controversial practice of boarding people having a psychiatric crisis in hospital emergency rooms, a federal judge has ruled.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., is taking the lead on bipartisan legislation to strengthen penalties against illegal drug dealers and to especially target the international sales of fentanyl through the dark web.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
A 14-year-old student at Southside Middle School in Manchester died after jumping from the Huse Road overpass onto Interstate 293 on Wednesday afternoon, according to multiple sources who did not want to be named.
CONCORD — Granite United Way of Manchester will operate a 24-hour hotline for the homeless through a contract the Executive Council approved Wednesday.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
CONCORD — The Executive Council distributed $6.5 million in grants for nonprofits and counties to battle substance abuse Wednesday, the first ones to come from settlements that drug makers and sellers have reached after the state sued them over the opioid epidemic.
Kevin Landrigan
senior reporter
CONCORD — A patient at the state Secure Psychiatric Unit, a facility for chronically dangerous psychiatric patients, has died unexpectedly, state corrections officials said.
Bachelor's degree-seeking students at community colleges are bucking trends, but hope investment will pay off.
At least 480 New Hampshire residents were lost last year to drug overdoses — the highest number since 2017.
Shawne Wickham
senior reporter
