DURHAM, N.H. A University of New Hampshire graduate student who proposed a project to help shrimp farmers in Bangladesh has won the student track of an annual university competition aimed at encouraging sustainable, market-based solutions to social and environmental challenges. The New Hampshire Social Venture Innovation Challenge at the University of New Hampshire includes prizes […]

BRIDGEWATER, Vt. More than 100 years after the Bridgewater Village School opened to its first students, voters have opted to tear down the former elementary school because the costs to maintain and keep the building up to code are too high. The roughly 40 kindergarten through 6th-grade students have been attending school in a neighboring […]

CONCORD, N.H. Several hiker-generated petitions have started in opposition to plans to build a hotel near the summit of Mount Washington, the Northeast’s highest peak. An online petition started by New Hampshire hiker Rachel Lewis has more than 2,700 signatures. Another asks hikers to contact the Coos County Planning Board to share their concerns. The […]

OAKLAND, Calif. As investigators searched for signs of a crime in the fire that killed at least 33 in an Oakland warehouse during a late-night dance party, survivors and teary-eyed friends of those who perished viewed the charred building from a distance, placed flowers on several small memorials and embraced each other to mourn their […]

HONOLULU In some ways, it could be any class photo from the 1940s. The sepia-toned image shows 30 fifth-graders — 26 girls and four boys — at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Waikiki. Most are smiling, some look stern. A few have no shoes. Yet this picture is different in one striking way: Each child […]

CANNON BALL, N.D. Protesters celebrated a major victory in their push to reroute the Dakota Access oil pipeline away from a tribal water source but pledged to remain camped on federal land in North Dakota anyway, despite Monday’s government deadline to leave. Hundreds of people at the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires, encampment cheered […]

WASHINGTON A man who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fired an assault rifle inside the Washington, D.C., restaurant on Sunday injuring no one, police and news reports said. Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Aquita Brown said police received a call Sunday […]

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court is taking up a pair of cases in which African-American voters maintain that Southern states discriminated against them in drawing electoral districts. The justices are hearing arguments Monday in redistricting disputes from North Carolina and Virginia. The claim made by black voters in both states is that Republicans created districts with […]

Presidential candidate Jill Stein’s fight to force presidential recounts in three states focuses today on Pennsylvania, where her Green Party is seeking an emergency federal court order for a statewide recount, and Michigan, where a federal judge has ordered a hand recount to begin by noon. The recount is underway in Wisconsin. President-elect Donald Trump […]