Lancaster News

The House of Representatives overrode Governor John Lynch's veto of HB 648 to legalize marijuana by 240 to 115 - 10 over the bar of a two-thirds vote - on Wednesday, known as "Veto Day." But the state Senate came up two votes short of the needed 16 of 24 to make a two-thirds majority that would have made the Granite State the 14th state to legalize ...

A small hilltop plateau, upslope from town moderator Steve LaFrance's house in Stratford Bog, has been cleared and a gravel driveway and an electric power pole put in by Mike Beattie of Lancaster.

The New Hampshire state legislature fell two votes short of legalizing the use of medicinal marijuana in a failed attempt to override the veto of Gov.

New Hampshire on Wednesday fell two votes short of becoming the 14th state to legalize marijuana use by severely ill people after the state Senate failed to override Gov.

BACKGROUND: Lawmakers will vote Wednesday on whether to override the governor's veto of the medical marijuana bill.

The new United States attorney for New Hampshire said Tuesday that he won't prosecute people using small amounts of marijuana for pain or to improve their appetite.

Jeanne C. Foote, 90, of Court Street and formerly of Union Avenue, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Oct.

Plow trucks and sanders were called out this morning in the northern reaches of New Hampshire, where residents awoke to the first snow of the season.

The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has awarded $5,000 in matching funds that will go toward studying the possibility of raising a larger sum that would enable a number of improvements to Weeks State Park.

Strange things happen on the roads and highways - some of them even happen right here in New Hampshire.

Police say a 21-year-old Rhode Island man drove through a U.S. border station with Canada and then hit speeds of 140 miles an hour before crashing 50 miles to the south.

Governors from both sides of the Connecticut River visited the Lancaster Fair on Friday afternoon to chat with constituents, shake voters' hands, check out the products offered by numerous vendors, eat Robillard's apple crisp, and josh with one another in the Fuller's Sugarhouse.

Whether you're heading to the mountains, beach or somewhere in between this Labor Day weekend, there are plenty of great events happening in New Hampshire.

Lancaster Elementary School made history yesterday. So did other elementary schools in Salem, Pelham and Windham, opening doors to public kindergarten for the first time ever.

Onlookers rushed to the aid of a pedestrian on Main Street after she was injured in a chain-reaction accident involving two vehicles just before noon last Thursday.

Onlookers rushed to the aid of a pedestrian on Main Street after she was injured in a chain-reaction accident involving two vehicles just before noon last Thursday.

Science manager Lou Niles of Whitefield, one of three hands-on investors in an innovative enterprise with the potential for a global reach, discussed the first of MolecuLoc LLC's several products on Monday afternoon at the former Wausau Carrier offices on Route 3, north of town.

Forty years ago this week the nation watched in awe - or disgust - as a half million rain-soaked hippies amicably gathered at a weekend concert that has become simply known as Woodstock.

The resignation of Lancaster Elementary School vice principal Rich Hartford was accepted on Monday night with regret by the White Mountains Regional School District school board.

The cotton candy, the cows, the general upheaval to your internal organs -- these are the things you can count on during fair season, whether you find yourself in Lancaster or Hopkinton or Deerfield.