A woman has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of US Border Patrol agent earlier this week on a highway in Vermont close to the US-Canadian border, the FBI office in Albany said Friday.

The bill would give US Customs and Border Protection more authority. Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema previously introduced a version.

Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) have reintroduced the bipartisan Extending Limits of U.S. Customs Waters Act, a legislative effort aimed at enhancing U.S. border security by expanding the nation’s customs waters territory from 12 to 24 nautical miles.

The FBI is investigating a Border Patrol agent-involved shooting, according to a statement from the Vermont State Police.

The agent killed was assigned to CBP’s Swanton Sector, which covers parts of Vermont, New York, and New Hampshire, a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesperson told CNN Monday evening.

A wide-ranging series of steps President Donald Trump has promised to beef up security at the southern border is beginning to take effect.

Gov. Kelly Ayotte is calling out a state lawmaker for dismissing problems arising from the state's bail system as "seductive anecdotes." This comes in the middle of a new push to roll back more of the 2018 law.

NH state troopers ticketed just 27 drivers for traveling at 100 mph or more in 2016. In 2024, that number more than quadrupled.

Foreign-born workers — whether naturalized citizens, noncitizens with work authorizations or undocumented immigrants — comprise nearly 7% of the New Hampshire workforce, according to a report issued by the state Department of Employment Security.

She pleaded New Hampshire lawmakers to support House Bill 56, which would require a 72-hour waiting period on gun sales. It’d also impose background checks on all firearm transfers, closing what some view as a loophole in the law. The state’s Department of Safety conducts background checks on sales from licensed dealers but not private sales.

The two high-profile gun control debates are being rolled into one piece of legislation.

The New Hampshire Senate passed a bill Thursday that would ban “sanctuary city” policies in which cities bar local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, part of a Republican push to tighten immigration laws in the state.