Faced with a stay-at-home order as the Granite State struggles to arrest the momentum of COVID-19, many of those seeking help for substance use disorders are encountering some new speed-bumps on their road to recovery.
The mad rush is on, as businesses spent the last week filing for some of the $349 billion worth of federally guaranteed loans, loans that – for the most part – they won’t have to pay back. Those funds, however, are finite and going fast.
New Hampshire officials and caregivers are struggling to accelerate and expand testing to detect the highly contagious and sometimes lethal COVID-19 disease.
The New Hampshire Special Olympics, which this year was supposed to mark its 50th anniversary, has announced its suspending all events through at least June 19 due to the coronavirus.
Ten of the 18 people who have died of COVID-19 in New Hampshire lived in nursing homes or other rehabilitation sites, where older and sicker populations are particularly vulnerable to the virus.
How state officials plan to dole out this federal money and who in Concord has authority to decide who gets what has touched off a profound legal dispute.
So called ‘Zoom-bombing’ — interrupting virtual meetings —has been on the rise as millions of Americans, including those in the Granite State, conduct business online.
As the novel coronavirus outbreak takes over conversations, social media feeds and news headlines, parents and guardians may find themselves tongue-tied when trying to explain the pandemic to their children.
When Robert Kelly sat down to make a music video about the importance of social distancing amid the COVID-19 outbreak, he didn't expect much to come of it.
The state is looking at using a vacant building at the Laconia State School property as quarantine housing for homeless people who have tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesman for the state Health and Human Services Department said Tuesday evening.
DHHS Chief Legal Counsel Melissa St. Cyr said the state is responding to reported shortages of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, as well as albuterol inhalers.
For breastfeeding mothers around New Hampshire, the uncertainty of the coronavirus is compounded by the stress of deciding how best to feed their children and keep them safe from the outbreak.
When Morgan Carpenter and Eliot Pelletier picked Aug. 8 as their wedding date, they pictured a big summer celebration full of family and friends. That was in January, before the coronavirus clamped down on the world and made all large gatherings unsafe.
There’s a gem of a plot of land in Kensington, in the southeastern corner of the state, that is usually closed to the public. But with the stress of the coronavirus taking a toll, the owners of the Alnoba property are opening their arms to the community.