New Hampshire

Police in Manchester, New Hampshire, responded to two separate reports of gunshots in the first hours of the weekend.

Heavy, continuous rain in parts of northern New England led to flash flooding, washed out roads and a few home rescues, authorities said. Police in Marlow, in southwestern New Hampshire, said four people and two animals were rescued Thursday night from a home off of Route 10 that had water rushing into the basement. About 15 miles north, a fire…

Two months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had lifted nearly all rules regarding masks. But on Tuesday, it changed course, recommending that they be worn indoors in parts of the country with high transmission rates, even for people who’ve been vaccinated. The CDC guidance that people wear masks in indoor public places applies in parts of...

With the delta variant spreading and rates of positive coronavirus cases increasing, the CDC is now recommending vaccinated people wear masks indoors in high-transmission areas.

In places with high transmission rates for COVID-19, fully vaccinated people are advised to wear masks indoors again.

New Hampshire residents can’t be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access public facilities, benefits or services under a bill signed into law by Gov. Chris Sununu. Supporters say the bill signed this week establishes “medical freedom” by specifying that all residents have the “natural, essential and inherent right to bodily integrity, free from any threat...

A hiker was pronounced dead on Saturday after being found unconscious on Mount Carrigan in the White Mountains. The Fish and Game Department says a 911 call came in around 12:30 p.m. reporting a hiker who was found unconscious and not breathing on the Signal Ridge Trail. The hiker was found about four miles from the closest trailhead. Other hikers…

Despite rising COVID-19 cases, Gov. Chris Sununu will not issue a statewide mask mandate in New Hampshire schools.

There will be no statewide mask mandates or COVID-19 guidelines for kids heading back to school in New Hampshire this fall. Gov. Chris Sununu says even the CDC guidelines are a bit too severe for the Granite State right now. “At this point, there is no need for students to be wearing masks. The numbers are just that low,” Sununu…

With increasing hospitalizations and mounting COVID-19 case numbers prompted by the Delta variant, municipalities across the country have re-imposed mask mandates and other public health mitigations. Local leaders in at least five states, including California and Nevada, have reinstated mask requirements, issued facial covering recommendations or threatened the return of strict public health limits for all residents. On a national...

A lawsuit filed earlier this month accuses the head of the Roman Catholic Church in New Hampshire of committing sexual abuse decades ago while he served as a priest in New York.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker says there is no plan to roll back COVID-19 restrictions statewide, but Boston Mayor Kim Janey said children will have to wear masks in the city’s schools this fall.

After his boat capsized off the coast of New Hampshire, Gloucester sailor Tom Cox is recalling how he was rescued. After sailing his 42-foot trimaran for 29 years, Cox was overconfident on Friday, he told NBC10 Boston Wednesday, thinking his boat, the Triad, was fast enough to outrun an incoming storm. “On the horizon, we saw cumulus clouds and rain…

After a wild water rescue off the coast of New Hampshire, the captain of a capsized boat is speaking out.

Police in New Hampshire have located person who had gone missing, prompting a Silver alert. New Hampshire State Police said Wednesday that 61-year-old Shawn Kelly McConaha of Franklin had bee located and was doig well. He last seen leaving his Timberland Drive home around noon Tuesday. Police did not provide a physical description of McConaha, but they released a photo…

For a while, it seemed like the rain would never stop in New Hampshire. Paul “Hutch” Hutchinson could only watch the radar on his phone as wave after wave of rain passed over his Jaffrey home. “I was bailing out what I could and was watching the doppler as more and more, every hour or so another thunderstorm would come…

Some New Hampshire residents say it seemed like the rain would never stop Sunday.

As the death toll continues to rise in the Surfside condo collapse, a local fire chief is providing a first-hand account of the recovery efforts. Sean Brown, a fire chief in Concord, New Hampshire, just spent 15 days at the site in Florida and spoke with NBC10 Boston on Sunday about what he saw. “It did in some ways remind…

Sean Brown just spent 15 days at the collapsed condo site in Florida.

Three people were rescued from the water Friday off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a beacon on a 42-foot sail boat that overturned. The people were on the bottom of the boat when rescuers arrived. “A vessel is significantly easier to spot in the ocean than a person,” Lt. Robert Turley, the...