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By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Longtime University of New Hampshire Police Chief Paul Dean, under scrutiny for his role in the response to a pro-Palestine protest last May, will leave the university to become incoming Governor Kelly Ayotte’s director of citizen services.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A new survey reveals that nearly half of New Hampshire voters fear they could be priced out of their own communities if they had to move.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

More than 1,400 residents flooded Kearsarge Regional High School on Saturday morning to prevent their school district from becoming the next Croydon or Pembroke.In a show of rousing support for public education, voters soundly defeated a proposal that...

By DAVID BROOKS

As community power prepares to enter its third full year in New Hampshire, close to half the state’s population will soon have access to a program which gives towns and cities more control over their electricity source.“We expect continued adoption in...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire’s highways didn’t get any safer in 2024 but at least they didn’t get deadlier, judging from year-end data about fatal accidents — with one sad exception.The number of drivers under the age of 21 who were killed on state roads last year...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Protests from outsiders and potential harm to students are driving the Bow School District’s continuing efforts to prevent parents from resuming pink armband demonstrations against transgender athletes, according to documents filed in a federal court...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire is gearing up to join a federal program testing dairy cattle for virulent strains of bird flu, which so far has been detected here only in some wild birds in early 2024.In other parts of the country, concern about Highly Pathogenic Avian...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Kelly Ayotte admits that in today’s market, it would have been unlikely for her and her husband to have afforded their first home.They were in their 30s, newly married and buying a condominium. From there, they purchased their first house. Nowadays,...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

When Carrie Becker received abnormal results back from her yearly mammogram, she underwent a series of tests. Three biopsies, three ultrasounds, three mammograms and one MRI later, she learned what the tests had confirmed: she had breast cancer.While...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The developers looking to convert Concord’s former Steeplegate Mall into 600 housing units mixed with large-scale retail bought out a nearby property owner who had stalled the project.Onyx Partners, which is looking to tear down most of the massive...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Hundreds of students were rejected from receiving Education Freedom Accounts in 2024 because their families earned more than the program’s income limits.If Republicans have their way in the State House this session, any family, regardless of how much...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

New Hampshire housing prices continue to remain at an all-time high as median sales in November sat at $500,000 – an 11% increase from this time last year.Perspective home buyers won’t be surprised that this was the most expensive November to buy a...

By JONATHAN VAN FLEET and GEOFF FORESTER

An 80-year-old diner made its way down Main Street in two pieces Tuesday night to its new resting place as part of the downtown entertainment development called Arts Alley.The construction site at 24 South Main St. is the second phase of the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Five years after COVID lockdowns supercharged the idea of talking to your doctor or nurse online from home, telehealth has become such a regular part of medical care in New Hampshire that advocates hope the state will loosen laws concerning...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Kearsarge Regional School District has yet to face any legal consequences for declining to comply with a new state law barring transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams, according to Superintendent John Fortney’s response to a...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Thorne’s of Concord will close its doors by the end of the year, shifting away from retail and toward full-time intimacy advice and support.By nature of the field, Thorne’s has always been a source of education, affirmation and guidance for its...

By DAVID BROOKS

Cutting your own Christmas tree is a snap. Unless, that is, it weighs 3,100 pounds, is as wide as a lane of traffic and nature decided to make the whole process more complicated.“The wind makes it a little trickier,” said Ryan Rambeau, Concord tree...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Danielle Bee thought Warner, N.H., residents had made it clear — many in town did not support more sidewalks, public transportation and new housing developments. To her, the state’s Housing Champions program — a tool for communities to be eligible for...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jose Cambrils has had his eyes on Whitney Hill Road in Canterbury, N.H., for years.He bought a 30-acre plot of land where the trees were spared from logging and wildlife roams about and another 95 acres just down the street in hopes of building a...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Kyle Fellers, one of the Bow, N.H., parents suing the school district over its handling of a silent protest against transgender girls in sports, described gender inclusion policies that infringe on  female protections in educational settings as an...

A man is dead and a woman seriously injured following a fiery crash on Interstate 93 Wednesday evening, and state police are asking witnesses to come forward.State police were called to the area near mile marker 32.4, just past the I-93 interchange...