New Hampshire suffered more than $20 million in damage from last week's floods and July's tornado, the governor said today.

Selectmen have charged that a member of the Merrimack County Sheriff's Department acted "in a biased and irresponsible manner'' in the role he played in the town's selection of a new police chief.

An overnight lapse in telephone service for FairPoint Communications customers in central and northern New Hampshire rendered phones across the Lakes Region and points west useless for an 11-hour stretch Monday ...