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By RUTH SMITH

As August wanes, many people lament that the summer is coming to an end. In fact, it is. Numerous natural events that we associate with fall, such as bird migration, begin in August. Some songbirds, shorebirds and insect eaters like the Common...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

CHICAGO – Democrats came into their national nominating convention riding a wave of energy and enthusiasm.And the four-day convention – that culminated with Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech accepting the nomination – did nothing to blunt the...

By ELLEN RAFFIO

While most graduation parties fit neatly in the family backyard, Eli Lemire, a 2024 graduate of John Stark Regional High School in Weare, took his to the highest peak in New England. Lemire had run in previous Mount Washington Road Races and planned...

By JIM SPAIN

Travel back with me 208 years to Barrington, New Hampshire. It is the Hayes family I greet, some of the earliest settlers of Barrington and known locally as hard-working farmers. The Hayes family resided over on Green Hill and grew their crops like...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

With New Hampshire’s primaries less than a month away, a new public opinion survey indicates that former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte is the clear front-runner in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.Ayotte, who served as state attorney...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Ashley Miller shares this month’s story with ConcordTV. Watch the episode on YouTube.When the Willey family — Samuel, Polly, and their five children, Eliza-Ann, Jeremiah, Martha, Elbridge, and Sally — settled in Crawford Notch in the fall of 1825,...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster is optimistic that having her good friend and former U.S. House colleague Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on the Democratic Party’s national ticket will help her party carry New Hampshire in the presidential election.“I’m very...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Editor’s note: This story was published on Friday. Over the weekend, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz canceled his trip to New Hampshire. Vice President Kamala Harris spent the weekend interviewing potential running mates. Walz is believed to be a...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont was back on the campaign trail in New Hampshire throwing haymakers at former President Donald Trump while making the case for Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats up and down the ballot.“Trump cannot get elected,”...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

MILWAUKEE, WI – Former President Donald Trump, in the longest presidential nomination acceptance address in modern political history, made a pitch for national unity in the culminating moment of the Republican National Convention.The former president,...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Gov. Chris Sununu has long been one of former President Donald Trump’s loudest Republican critics.But New Hampshire’s four-term governor, who isn’t seeking re-election this year, believes that Trump, who next week officially becomes the GOP’s 2024...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Ashley Miller shares this month’s story with ConcordTV. Watch the episode on YouTube.In early July 1863, news of the Battle of Gettysburg was flooding the media. Casualty reports were streaming in for what would become the bloodiest battle of the war,...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Retiring six-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster was long known on the campaign trail for her fundraising prowess.And Colin Van Ostern and Maggie Goodlander, the two candidates running for the Democratic Party nomination in New Hampshire’s Second...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, one of the most high-profile politicians in the Democratic Party, is headed to New Hampshire next week.The two-term Golden State governor who three years ago crushed a recall attempt by California Republicans will...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Housing stands head and shoulders above other leading issues as the most important problem facing New Hampshire, according to the results of a new poll.Thirty-six percent of those questioned in a University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll released...

By PAUL STENHAUSER

Former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the polling and fundraising front-runner for the GOP nomination in New Hampshire’s early September primary for governor, is firing back after coming under repeated attack by her rival, former longtime state Senate...

By ASHLEY MILLER

Ashley Miller shares this month’s story with ConcordTV. Watch the episode on YouTube.On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, making it the law of the land, but the Granite State’s approval was not...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The two remaining Democratic candidates in the 2024 race to succeed Rep. Annie Kuster in New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District faced off Friday in their first debate.Colin Van Ostern, a former member of New Hampshire’s Executive Council and...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction on 34 felony counts in his historic criminal trial drew swift reaction from New Hampshire’s top politicians vying for the corner office.“Today’s show trial starkly reveals the extent to which Joe...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

When U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster announced in March that she wouldn’t seek re-election this year, the six-term lawmaker in New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District said that she still planned to hit the campaign trail on behalf of fellow Democrats up...