New Hampshire
11 Beaches In New Hampshire Report Fecal Bacteria Advisories
CONCORD, NH — Before the weather gets too chilly, as the warmer days of summer begin to wind down, Granite Staters will want to take advantage of all the great lakes, ponds, and beaches that abound — but 21 of them this week have bacteria issues, according to officials.
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Healthy Swimming Mapper has posted 11 beaches with fecal bacteria advisories and 10 ponds and lakes with cyanobacteria warnings or watches. Most of the warnings and watches are new to the map.
This week, fecal bacteria advisories were posted at Canaan Street Lake Town Beach, Hampstead Town Beach, Hudson Town Beach, Kingston State Park Beach, New Castle Town Beach, North Hampton State Park Beach, Pirate’s Cove in Rye, Seabrook Harbor Beach, Seeley Park Beach in Sandown, and Silver Lake State Park Beach in Hollis.
Clough State Park Beach in Weare has a fecal bacteria advisory posted for a week.
Exposure to fecal bacteria can cause digestive and respiratory illnesses, infections, skin rashes, diarrhea, and other major health issues.
Four current cyanobacteria watches-alerts are also new this week: Winkley Pond in Barrington, Silver Lake in Hollis, Arlington Mill Reservoir in Salem, and Winnisquam Lake (Belmont, Laconia, Meredith, Sanbornton, and Tilton).
Two current cyanobacteria warnings-advisories are a week or more old: Cobbetts Pond in Windham, posted since July 25, and Province Lake in Effingham and Wakefield.
Four new current cyanobacteria warnings-advisories include Baboosic Lake in Amherst, Huntress Pond in Barnstead, Halfmoon Pond in Kingston, and Hopkinton Dike Elm Brook in Hopkinton.
Warnings are no longer valid at Gorham Pond in Dunbarton and Elm Brook in Hopkinton.
Officials warned swimmers, waders, and pet owners that the blooms and surface scum from cyanobacteria are natural occurrences, but exposure can bring acute health effects, including skin irritation and mucous membranes, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and seizures.
To view the updated Healthy Swimming Mapper, visit this link. To view this week’s cyanobacteria update, click here.
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NH Lottery Powerball, Pick 3 Day winning numbers for April 27, 2026
The New Hampshire Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at Monday, April 27, 2026 results for each game:
Winning Powerball numbers from April 27 drawing
18-31-33-36-62, Powerball: 03, Power Play: 3
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Winning Pick 3 numbers from April 27 drawing
Day: 4-1-0
Evening: 7-4-2
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Winning Pick 4 numbers from April 27 drawing
Day: 7-9-7-9
Evening: 8-6-5-0
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Winning Megabucks Plus numbers from April 27 drawing
07-16-19-27-32, Megaball: 06
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Winning Gimme 5 numbers from April 27 drawing
04-21-25-34-38
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Winning Millionaire for Life numbers from April 27 drawing
04-15-19-21-31, Bonus: 04
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When are the New Hampshire Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 10:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Pick 3, 4: 1:10 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. daily.
- Mega Millions: 11:00 p.m. Tuesday and Friday.
- Megabucks Plus: 7:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
- Lucky for Life: 10:38 p.m. daily.
- Gimme 5: 6:55 p.m. Monday through Friday.
- Millionaire for Life: 11:15 p.m. daily.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a New Hampshire managing editor. You can send feedback using this form.
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This Cancer Rising Sharply Among NH Young People
A new study showing deaths from rectal cancer are rising sharply among younger adults in their 30s and 40s — a troubling trend that researchers in a recent study say is not fully understood — is an important reminder for New Hampshire to include screening in their regular checkups.
The study, published March 2 in the American Cancer Society journal, found colorectal cancers — once more common in older adults — are increasingly diagnosed in younger people and are often more advanced at detection.
Colorectal cancer includes both colon and rectal cancer. In New Hampshire, 31.9 in 100,000 people were diagnosed from 2018 to 2022, according to the researchers’ analysis of federal health data. Death rates from 2019 to 2023 were 10.9 in 100,000 people.
Researchers said rectal cancer deaths could surpass colon cancer deaths by 2035 if current trends continue. Colorectal cancer is already the leading cause of cancer death among Americans under 50, with mortality in that group rising about 1% per year even as death rates decline among older adults, particularly those 65 and older.
Rectal tumors now account for about one-third of all colorectal cancer diagnoses, up from roughly one-quarter in earlier decades, indicating a growing share of the overall burden. Overall incidence has declined slightly, driven by a roughly 2.5% annual drop among adults 65 and older, but it is rising in younger groups—about 3% per year among those ages 20 to 49 and 0.4% annually among those 50 to 64. As a result, nearly half of new cases now occur in people under 65, up from about a quarter in the mid-1990s.
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Researchers estimate 158,850 new colorectal cancer cases and 55,230 deaths nationwide in 2026, with about 45% of diagnoses and nearly one-third of deaths expected in people younger than 65.
The reasons for the rise in younger adults remain unclear. Researchers point to possible links to diet, obesity, environmental exposures and other lifestyle factors, as well as changes in the gut microbiome.
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As these generations age, the burden of rectal cancer “will continue to swell like a tsunami moving through time, underscoring an urgent need for etiologic research to discover the cause of rising incidence,” the researchers said.
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