COVID-19 news in the Upper Valley

The $900 billion stimulus package passed by Congress this week would provide a critical extension for New Hampshire families relying on...

Congress agreed to ban surprise medical bills in their funding package passed this week, the culmination of two years of work from Senator Maggie...

WEST LEBANON — A New Hampshire lawmaker who represents part of the Upper Valley is recovering from what he describes as “the worst head cold I’ve...

NEWPORT, N.H. — Dominick Dephillips’ primary care provider referred him to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for psychiatric treatment three times...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Staff members at the White River Junction VA Medical Center began receiving coronavirus vaccines from Moderna on Monday.The...

Mark Young has been in what he likens to the “hospitality business” for 33 years, selling costumes, disguises, face masks, balloons and novelties...

At first, Steve Smith was a little worried about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic would have on his radio station’s annual Toys for Tots toy drive....

For more than a century, candlelight been the centerpiece of Union Episcopal Church’s Christmas Eve service.Dozens of candles placed in the...

WINDSOR — Firefighters and emergency medical technicians from the Vermont side of the Upper Valley navigated towering snowbanks along the way to Mt...

This week, more and more schools across New Hampshire pivoted to remote learning due to positive cases of COVID-19 in their buildings and low...

Excitement and anxiety accompany the college application season, but this year the process is more angst-ridden than usual.Students’ lives have...

CONCORD — As the first allotments of vaccines were distributed across the country this week, multiple states were eager to broadcast who the first...

WEST LEBANON — The risks that come with in-person committee meetings and floor votes attended by hundreds of people has some New Hampshire...

The biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history kicked off Monday as health workers rolled up their sleeves for shots to protect them from COVID...

As a firefighter in North Carolina, Nicole Vigneault is comfortable with certain types of risk.“I will run into a burning building any day,” said...

LEBANON — Lebanon schools are slated to return to a hybrid learning model on Monday and stay with it for over a month, following the discovery of a...

When schools in Vermont moved to remote learning in the spring, it was in response to an unprecedented crisis.But in the future, Vermonters can...

HANOVER — A second resident at Hanover Terrace died on Thursday morning after contracting COVID-19, according to the Lyme Road nursing home’s...

HANOVER — A Hanover Terrace resident who had tested positive for COVID-19 died Tuesday evening, according to the nursing home’s temporary...

WINDSOR — The acute rehabilitation unit at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center has a cluster of patients and staff who have tested positive for...

A member of New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s staff has tested positive for COVID-19, the office said in a press release Monday.The staff member...

In the spring, when schools closed up and went to remote learning, it wasn’t an unqualified success. Educators, parents and policymakers were aware...

LEBANON — As the first surge of COVID-19 cases began in the early spring, Dr. Meredith MacMartin and her colleagues in palliative care at Dartmouth...

HANOVER — The COVID-19 outbreak at Hanover Terrace grew to include a total of 44 people, after six more residents tested positive on Friday, the...

HANOVER — A COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home on Lyme Road has grown to include a total of 38 people, the facility’s temporary administrator said...

GUILFORD, Vt. — Vermont’s fight against COVID-19 has a new driving force: the Vermont Agency of Transportation, which has unveiled $600,000 worth...

TILTON, N.H. — The COVID-19 vaccine is coming, but not soon enough for more than 20 residents at the New Hampshire Veterans Home who have succumbed...

HANOVER — A COVID-19 outbreak at a Hanover nursing home has grown to include at least 20 residents and more test results are still pending...

NEWPORT, N.H. — Woodlawn Care Center has not reported a new case of COVID-19 in a resident for more than two weeks, which may indicate the outbreak...

With winter weather imminent, a fear is beginning to materialize among snowplow crews statewide: What if a whole crew were to be out sick with the...

NORWICH — As a student of how societies function and look after their well-being, Nicholas Christakis was paying attention to the novel coronavirus...

FAIRLEE — Trevor Lohr lives in an apartment above Chapman’s Store, so naturally, he shops there from time to time, mainly for wine and bagels...

HANOVER — An employee at Hanover Terrace Health and Rehabilitation tested positive this week for COVID-19, and patients are now being tested for...

Amanda Hull has grown accustomed to participating in the Zack’s Place Turkey Trot every Thanksgiving morning. The fun, she said, is “getting to see...

BRADFORD, Vt. — Valley Vista has temporarily halted admissions of new patients because 8 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 at the...

NORWICH — Amid the recent increase in COVID-19 cases in the Twin States and new restrictions aimed at preventing more, there are signs that the end...

Around a quarter to noon on Thursday, the first cars started lining up outside the Hanover Parks and Recreation Department at the Richard W. Black...

Chris Childs has had his Lebanon High football team on his mind a lot since its semifinal game was canceled on Nov. 13, ending a 6-1 season.He is...

LEBANON — Cory Grant fired up a snowmaking cannon — the eternal and optimistic sign of the upcoming ski season — at the base of the Storrs Hill Ski...

CLAREMONT — Several schools in the Upper Valley moved to or continued remote learning on Friday due to cases of COVID-19.SAU 6 officials sent...