Independence Day celebrations around the Seacoast begin tonight with the annual fireworks celebration in Portsmouth. If the regular late afternoon and early evening thunderstorms of late hold off, the alcohol-free, family event will commence at 9:15...

Perhaps the state's new and improved 10-year transportation plan, signed by Gov. John Lynch last week, should be granted a simple modifier — alleged.

North Hampton Board of Selectmen Chairwoman Emily Creighton deserves credit for rising above an unpopular and controversial mess to do the right thing.

Those of us who haven't received it yet are all dreading it: the oil company's contract. What will the price be? $4.70 a gallon, $4.80? Higher? Despite the fact that summer started just over a week ago, winter is on many people's minds. This coming...

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law,...

Thumbs up to the outpouring of support for former Portsmouth Mayor Evelyn Sirrell as she continues her rehabilitation at the Edgewood Centre. Sirrell collapsed at her home earlier in the spring from what she later discovered was complications from...

We weren't surprised when presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama publicly announced last week he was opting out of the public financing system for the general election. For the first time since campaign reform laws were passed...

It's a sober commentary on our times, but it's quite likely that in a decade or less, few will be asking about Eagle Photo despite the fact that it was a community institution for more than nine decades.

Four days before he died on Sunday from heart failure, great American comic George Carlin was named as the 2008 honoree of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

A local Boy Scout's bid to earn his Eagle Scout badge in North Hampton is now a sideshow of shaky leadership and disregard for town policy and the state's Right-to-Know Law.

It's easy to overlook that the site of the Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse was established in 1771 at the location we know today as Fort Constitution.

No one should have been surprised with the proposals by President Bush and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain to lift bans an offshore oil exploration and drilling in areas off the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards and in the...

Thumbs up to the celebration of love for Lara Spencer Bunce — the "blonde fireball," "angel," "beauty" and "confidante" with an unforgettable smile and zest for life. The 17-year-old Winnacunnet High School athlete died early in the morning on...

The numbers don't lie: 800 and $100,000. The 800 people who attended the 14th annual Taste of the Nation event at Strawberry Banke Museum on Wednesday helped raise a record-breaking $100,000 to fight childhood hunger, a persistent social blight...

Beginning Saturday afternoon in Concord and ending late Tuesday night in Boston, a trio of worthy championship teams were crowned, and they deserve congratulations for their efforts — the Portsmouth High School softball and baseball teams and...