University of New Hampshire News

The Durham Town Council recently adopted goals for the upcoming year intended to guide the town, its staff and board members over the next three to five years.

The commencement speech for the University of New Hampshire's class of 2012 will be delivered by this year by Ronald Noble, the first American to head the international policing organization INTERPOL.

Courtesy photo Chrissy Basnar, 21, who fences with the UNH club team, is shown here competing and practicing with a foil at the New England Club Championships, in which UNH took best overall school among 15 other colleges.

This year's tax filing day has come and gone. Do you ever wonder where the hard-earned money goes that you send to the federal government each year? Here is a partial list.

Newswise - DURHAM, N.H. - New Research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire shows that access to state-level Earned Income Tax Credits results in healthier children.

Some university seniors say they are having a hard time finding jobs after graduation in an increasingly competitive job market.

Three years after her family first heard the devastating diagnosis that her mom had breast cancer, Arroyo, 23, remains as motivated as ever to raise money and awareness to help defeat breast cancer, and support those facing the disease.

The Swasey Central School Search Committee announces two finalists have been selected for the position of principal beginning on July 1. After many applicants were screened, the committee held first round interviews with eight candidates.

Excerpted from ReadMedia: Joe PetersonA of Burlington is one of nearly 570 students who sailed this spring with Semester at Sea , the U.S. shipboard program for international study.

Michael Geraci of Portsmouth and his mother, Gloria Britt, read some of the thousands of letters he's written to her over the years.

The 2012 Memorial Day Parade will take place on Monday, May 28 kicking off at 10:00 a.m. The first of three ceremonies begins at the Town Landing on Old Landing Road.

Andy Smith is the director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, and he thinks President Obama's decision to endorse gay marriage will help mobilize New Hampshire Democrats.

Robert M. James Jr., cofounder of Kissing Bridge ski resort and president of an energy business, died Monday in his Town of Boston home.

A few days from now, Statehouse members will be voting on the state Senate's version of the school voucher bill .

The U.S. Department of State has provided the School Department with an explanation into the cancellation of a visa for a teacher who would have taught Chinese to local public school students.

A de-icer spreading system that uses GPS technology to map sensitive watersheds and allows transportation officials to apply specific de-icers on roads in environmentally sensitive areas won first place in the 2012 University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics Paul J. Holloway Prize Innovation-to-Market competition.

Archaeologists working at the Xultun ruins of the Mayan civilisation have reported striking finds, including the oldest-known Mayan astronomical tables.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday lashed out at a reporter in Colorado who asked him tough questions about same sex marriage, immigration and marijuana.

Born Feb. 6, 1948, in Lynn, Mass., he was the son of Robert J. Parks and Marion A. Parks.

Violinist Ronald Lantz and pianist Laura Kargul will return to the Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum for a special concert on Saturday, May 12, at 7 p.m. Lantz and Kargul will celebrate Spring with a program of romantic music by French composers, featuring the little-known "Sonata for Violin and Piano," by Jacques de la Presle.