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WASHINGTON — Federal grants are making a major impact in the state of addiction, according to the executive director of a lakes region recovery center who testified in...

KITTERY, Maine -- On April 10, 1963, 16-year-old Carol Norton was playing basketball with her brother and neighbors when their mother approached the group slowly from afar, shaking...

EXETER -- U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is pushing legislation to protect people from being led into purchasing what she calls "junk" health-care plans. Shaheen, D-N.H., held a meeting...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan have introduced a bill to give people between the ages of 50 and 64 the option of...

President Trump, during Tuesday's State of the Union, announced, with few details, that the administration would be "launching the first ever government-wide initiative...

ORTSMOUTH -- Environmental activist Andrea Amico could not have had a better view of Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. “I was up in the gallery directly in...

NASHUA – U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Nashua Public Health Director Bobbie Bagley know many people have to balance paying for rent, utilities, food and prescription...

Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, represents New Hampshire in the U.S. Senate and is a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. Diane Foley is the mother of James...

Senator Jeanne Shaheen met Friday with about a dozen representatives from New Hampshire's farming industry to discuss how the partial government shutdown is affecting them....

President Trump's surprise announcement that he was pulling the U.S. military out of Syria came with no plan in place for what to do about more than 790 imprisoned ISIS fighters...

It wasn’t a perfect bill, by any means; the political fodder that is the Department of Agriculture’s omnibus funding bill is, every five years, a new opportunity for...

A provision that would make Cheshire County eligible for special economic development grants is headed to the president’s desk, as part of a farm bill that cleared Congress...

The federal government will give Manchester $3.7 million to address lead paint issues in city homes. The money comes from the Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of...

More than seven decades after he was wounded in World War II, Melrose native Francis Byrne finally received his Purple Heart. The 94-year-old veteran was presented the medal at a...

PORTSMOUTH — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators led by Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, are calling for federal health officials to take immediate...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A U.S. Army veteran from Manchester who never received a Purple Heart after being injured during World War II will finally be recognized for his service...

MANCHESTER — A World War II veteran from Manchester is getting his dying wish — a Purple Heart Award, to be presented at a ceremony in his honor more than seven...

HAMPTON -- Officials concerned the Hampton Harbor was becoming shallow beyond use celebrated new funding for the harbor’s emergency dredging this week. The $4.6 million...

CONCORD, N.H.  Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina are leading a bipartisan delegation attending an...

MANCHESTER — School board members heard an update on how a federal grant providing $10.5 million over the next seven years will help low-income students in Manchester middle...