Amherst News

Last summer and fall it seemed as though oil prices would continue to climb, and many town and school officials were anxious to lock in heating fuel at between $3 and $4 a gallon.

Despite the snow on the ground, it felt a bit like September as school buses trudged slowly across ice-slick roads to haul kids back to school yesterday after an extra long winter break.

With the state's new work-force housing law taking effect in July, some towns are pushing ahead to meet the new requirements.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has rendered decisions on two cases it heard at Souhegan High School in Amherst earlier this year.

Pete Johnson probably never expected to win 'Most Improved Athlete' at 46. But the owner of Johnson's Electric did just that when he wrapped up the 60-Day Challenge at Dynamic Strength and Conditioning, a ...

Amherst Fire Department Capt. Ed Hanlon, right, and his father, Dave, a retired fire captain, assemble the hand rails for a 200-year-old piece of firefighting apparatus they are preserving for the department's ...

Since October, there has been a handicapped-accessible bus available to give residents of Milford, Amherst, Mont Vernon and Brookline rides to non-emergency medical appointments.

Two families were left homeless in a pair of unrelated fires that broke out a little more than 12 hours apart last week.

Andy's Summer Playhouse has been a fixture in Wilton Center since 1985, providing theater experiences of many kinds to the local young people, but its support structure of grants, donations and student tuitions ...

By PATRICK MEIGHAN and DAYMOND STEER, Staff Writers pmeighan@nashuatelegraph.com , dsteer@cabinet.com NASHUA - As snow fell prodigiously late Sunday morning, city street supervisors counted their manpower and ...

Public Service of New Hampshire reports that 15 percent of its customers still lack power.

A storm on top of a storm on the heels of last week's ice storm has complicated cleanup efforts and put a strain on city crews.

Elliot's Center for Sleep Evaluation will begin leasing nine rooms at the Homewood Suites/Hilton Hotel near Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.

No one was injured Thursday in a fire that rendered a home on Winterberry Drive uninhabitable.

By JOSEPH G. COTE Staff Writer AMHERST - Dan Gillis and his family had only been back in their Oak Hill Drive home for a few days when disaster struck again, this time one of a more personal sort.

Amherst, NH As more snow and ice fall throughout NH, Utility Crews on Seaverns Bridge Road in Amherst, NH, work to repair a power line that had been brought down by a full-sized pine tree last Thursday Night.

An ice storm that moved into the region late Thursday caused numerous power outages and treacherous road conditions.

In Amherst NH, school are all cancelled and a large percentage of residents do not have any power.

Sandwiched between Wilton, Amherst, Mont Vernon and Brookline -- all without power yesterday -- Milford suddenly found its restaurants in much more demand than usual.

Police in Amherst, N.H., say two women were caught on a Wal-Mart surveillance camera taking toys that were donated for needy children.