March 01, 2010, 5:12 AM
CONCORD, N.H. — More than a million people lost electricity at the height of the storm Friday. Days later, New Hampshire is now reporting about 50,000 customers without power, while Maine has about 15,000 without power.
February 20, 2010, 11:01 AM
BOSTON — New Englanders are mourning the loss of two of their own who were killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province.
February 17, 2010, 6:12 PM
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s House has rejected a bill that would have repealed the state’s 6-week-old gay marriage law.
February 02, 2010, 8:31 AM
NASHUA, N.H. — President Obama traveled to Nashua, N.H. on Tuesday to unveil a new lending program aimed at strengthening community banks and boosting hiring among small businesses. A few days prior, WBUR traveled to the city’s Main Street, where a divided citizenry reflected on Mr. Obama’s first-year performance and expressed contrasting feelings on future economic turnaround.
February 01, 2010, 3:04 PM
EPSOM, N.H. — One million foul shots by Veterans Day 2011. That is the goal of a New Hampshire basketball fan aiming to help wounded military veterans and the families of those killed while serving.
January 29, 2010, 4:10 PM
NASHUA, N.H. — As a Republican mayor in a city with 7 percent employment, Nashua, N.H.’s Donnalee Lozeau holds a centrist’s perspective, both crediting and critiquing President Obama before his visit next week.
November 18, 2009, 5:33 PM
CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says another arrest has been made in connection with a home invasion resulting in the death of a Mont Vernon woman.
October 07, 2009, 10:47 AM
MONT VERNON, N.H. — A rural community of about 2,300 residents near the Massachusetts border is reeling in the wake of the random, grisly murder of a woman and the maiming of her 11-year-old daughter — allegedly at the hands of four teenagers.
November 04, 2008, 8:51 AM
BOSTON — BOSTON — We want to hear from you. Did you encounter a problem at your precinct? How long was the line? Leave a comment below or follow WBUR on Twitter and tag voting problems with #wburvote.
Long lines formed early at the Phineas Bates School in Roslindale today. (Andrea Shea/WBUR)
BOSTON — Massachusetts voters turned out in [...]
November 03, 2008, 11:06 AM
BOSTON — BOSTON — Thirty years ago, when ex-New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thompson Jr. helped get “Live Free or Die” on state license plates, and helped usher in the “No Sales or Income Taxes” pledge, it would have been hard to find a more Republican red state than New Hampshire.
But New Hampshire is solidly purple now. Follow [...]
January 08, 2008, 6:30 PM
BOSTON — BOSTON — WBUR’s Claudine Ebeid reports:
“With just over an hour to go until the polls close Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign site at Southern New Hampshire University is relatively quiet. Only staffers, media and security are milling about. Empty risers sit before a wall-sized American flag awaiting the Clinton supporters that are likely to [...]
January 08, 2008, 4:35 PM
BOSTON — BOSTON — Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee spent primary day going from polling place. At his first stop he met up with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and asked him for his vote. “I don’t think any of us can vote today,” Giuliani responded. The two candidates shook hands and [...]
January 08, 2008, 1:27 PM
BOSTON — BOSTON — Heavy turnout — especially on the Democratic side — has New Hampshire election officials scrambling to find extra ballots.
January 08, 2008, 9:13 AM
BOSTON — BOSTON — Sam Fleming, managing director of news and programming sends us this update from New Hampshire where he voted in today’s primary:
“Breezed right in. With only one question on the ballot the process took less than a minute. It’s easy to forget until you see a ballot how many actual names are on it. [...]
January 07, 2008, 3:49 PM
BOSTON — BOSTON — Election analysts Democrat Dan Payne and Republican Todd Domke join WBUR’s Bob Oakes to talk about the 2008 presidential race on the eve of the New Hampshire Primary.
