Connecticut river

Two hunters spotted a man’s body floating Saturday morning in the Connecticut River in Charlestown, New Hampshire, state police said. The hunters called authorities after making the discovery around 10 a.m., New Hampshire State Police said. Troopers, marine patrol, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, North Walpole fire crews, and Charlestown police and fire departments responded to the call....

A missing woman was found dead in a stream in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, on Sunday afternoon, and authorities are investigating her cause of death. New Hampshire State Police responded to Partridge Brook, a tributary of the Connecticut River, after receiving a call for a possible drowning just before 3:30 p.m. Responding officers learned the victim was along the shoreline of…

The Connecticut River Conservancy offers a way to check E. coli test results from the river and its tributaries.

An online tool can help swimmers and boaters determine if certain New England waterways are safe from bacterial contamination to help them avoid getting sick. “The Connecticut River often is very clean for swimming and boating,” said Ryan O’Donnell, a water quality monitoring coordinator with the Connecticut River Conservancy, a group that helps maintain New England’s longest river. Before...

While the cases are not considered suspicious, authorities in western Massachusetts say a body found in a river near Gill on Monday marks the fourth time in nine weeks that bodies were recovered from the Connecticut River. Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan reported Tuesday afternoon that the body was discovered in Gill at around 7:20 p.m. Monday was first detected…

For the second time in five days, a body was found in the Connecticut River in Massachusetts. A woman who was boating found the body of a male floating in the water in Hadley around noon Wednesday, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office. The discovery was made off River Road. The district attorney’s office said no approximate age...

Massachusetts state and local police are investigating after a boater discovered a man’s body Friday evening in the Connecticut River. The boater called authorities when he made the discovery around 6 p.m. and then he stayed with the body so police could locate it, the Northwestern District Attorney’s office announced in a statement. A Northampton Police Department dispatcher traced...

Authorities said Friday a body recovered from a river in Chicopee, Massachusetts a day earlier was that of a 12-year-old boy who has been missing for over two months. The Hampden District Attorney’s Office said the body, recovered Thursday by a dive team searching the Chicopee and Connecticut rivers, was that of Aiden Blanchard, of Chicopee. The victim has...

A person’s body was found Wednesday in a river in Chicopee, Massachusetts, by a search-and-rescue team looking for a boy missing for over two months, police said. The dive team found the body at 11:15 a.m. between the North End Bridge, over the Connecticut River, and Memorial Bridge, over the Chicopee River, according to Chicopee police. Detectives from local...

Approximately 1,000 boats came out to participate in a Trump boat parade along the Connecticut River Sunday afternoon. Boaters started down by the mouth of the Connecticut River and made their way North to the Swing Bridge at Eagles Landing State Park in Haddam. The event was hosted by a group called “Connecticut Boaters For Trump.” The U.S. Coast Guard…

Former Wethersfield High School standout baseball star Ryan Costello was found dead in his hotel room in New Zealand on Monday, days after joining the Auckland Tuatara in the Australian Baseball League.

Back in 2016, a political gadfly named Mark Stewart Greenstein jumped into the Connecticut River to attract attention to his entry in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, and now he’s the first candidate to sign up for the 2020 contest.

A man from Massachusetts swam across a well-known lake in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom Thursday, despite a big mobility challenge that made the feat even more impressive. Former U.S. Marine Mike Welsch of Shirley swims waterways around the Northeast, aiming to both motivate and inspire. “This is gorgeous,” the long-distance swimmer said before he conquered Lake Willoughby in Westmore. “It’s just...

An EF-1 tornado touched down on Cape Cod Tuesday, with three towns hit, according to preliminary information from the National Weather Service. The tornado caused damage to buildings and trees and left some areas too treacherous for people to go, even while the region was packed with tourists. But there were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths, just power...

Flood warnings are continuing along low-lying areas in parts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont where rivers are overflowing with runoff from spring snowmelt and heavy rains.

First responders have found the body of a man believed to have ended up in the Connecticut River in western Massachusetts after a car crash.

Columbus Day weekend is historically a very popular time to seek out the best fall color that New England has to offer. While foliage is running about one to two weeks late so far this year, due in part to mild weather conditions, many locations will be approaching peak color this weekend. Without question the best color will be found...

Jack Thurston reports from New Hampshire on the removal of a plane from the Connecticut River.

The wreckage of a plane that crashed this weekend into the Connecticut River between Newbury, Vermont and Haverhill, New Hampshire was removed from the water Monday in a complicated recovery project.