CONCORD, N.H. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is giving more time for people to comment on a proposal to establish the “Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge” in New England and New York to preserve more shrubland and young forests for numerous species, such as the New England cottontail. People will now have until April […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The Virginia police officer shot and killed on her first day on the job is being laid rest next to her father in a Massachusetts cemetery. A funeral Mass for Ashley Guindon is scheduled for Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, in Springfield, followed by burial at St. Thomas the Apostle […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gas prices are starting to rise in parts of northern New England. The price-tracking website GasBuddy.com says the price in Maine has risen about 3.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.81 a gallon. It’s also gone up 2.5 cents a gallon in New Hampshire, to $1.70. In Vermont, […]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Portsmouth officials are expected to vote on authorizing a $75 million bond toward an $84 million plan to upgrade the existing Peirce Island wastewater plant. The Portsmouth Herald reports that if city council approves the resolution on Monday, the plant will become the biggest capital project in the city’s history. Councilors […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man will return to court on federal charges in connection with his role in an armed standoff by Nevada ranchers opposed to federal control of public lands. Gerald DeLemus, of Rochester, was named in a federal indictment made public last week as a “mid-level leader” and organizer of […]

LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say a man is dead and another has been injured after a shooting in Lawrence over the weekend. Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett’s office says police were called to a food store at 389 Broadway early Saturday for a report of possible shots fired. Blodgett’s office says the victims […]

FLINT, Mich. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled aggressively on economic issues in a Democratic presidential debate over trade, Wall Street influence and more. Clinton accused him of turning his back on the auto industry and Sanders countered in the Sunday night debate that Clinton’s friends on Wall Street had “destroyed this economy.” It was […]

WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton had more regard for Wall Street movers and shakers than she acknowledged when claiming she scolded the financial industry for “wrecking the economy.” The criticism she leveled at Wall Street came mixed with praise — and thanks for the political donations. Bernie Sanders, like his Democratic presidential rival, understated what officials in […]

WILLOW, Alaska Eighty-five mushers set off Sunday to conquer the toughest terrain this nation has to offer, vying to become the first to reach Alaska’s western coast with their dog teams. Scott Janssen, an undertaker from Anchorage who is known as the Mushing Mortician, was the first to leave across Willow Lake in the staggered […]