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By ALEXANDER RAPP
LACONIA – Senior outside hitter Lylah Shumway spiked the last ball to send her team, the Concord Christian Academy Kingsmen, to the Division III volleyball championship for the first time since the program was restarted in 2022.Shumway’s game-winning...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS, RACHEL WACHMAN, and SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Retired fisherman Billy Benincase doesn’t live in a political echo chamber – and he likes it that way.Andover, the tiny town 30 minutes from Concord that Benincase calls home, is a dying breed – a politically split community in an era of rapidly...
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY
Pembroke residents voted decisively in favor of Maggie Goodlander on Tuesday, where about 300 more people chose the Democrat to represent them in Congress over her Republican opponent, Lily Tang Williams. Vice President Kamala Harris almost pulled off...
A Weare resident and former Bradford firefighter has been convicted of arson following two fires found set in unoccupied Bradford towns in 2022 and 2023.Nathan G. Nicols, 19, was found guilty of felony criminal mischief, and arson, a misdemeanor, in...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Now that election season has ended and routines are back to normal, one piece of the campaign season still remains — political signs. From front yards and business properties to roadside spots, these signs are everywhere.So what should people do with...
Police fatally shot a man armed with a rifle who barricaded himself inside the Federal House Inn on Route 25 Plymouth. Both the New Hampshire State Police Crisis Negotiation Team and members of the SWAT unit responded to Plymouth Wednesday afternoon...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
BEDFORD – The clock winded down at the end of the second half in the Division III semifinal with the game still tied, 0-0, and the Hopkinton Hawks earned a corner on the left wing with seven minutes remaining.Junior midfielder, Fin Murphy, sent a...
By GEOFF FORESTER andARIANNA MacNEILL
The phrase “record turnout” was an overarching theme on election day, and Secretary of State David Scanlan confirmed it came true in New Hampshire.Of the Granite State’s roughly 1.4 million residents, around 1.1 million of them are of voting age....
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Jonathan Paquette wants to buy a house. But supporting his wife and six kids on one paycheck feels like he can hardly buy anything these days.He’s hoping a second Donald Trump presidency will change that.“We have had a bunch of Democrats that have had...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
Juan Tejada, a second-generation Latino voter in Nashua, said his top issues were cost of living increases since the pandemic and housing, a hot topic for many in the Granite StateAs a result, he voted for Donald Trump.“I voted for Trump-Vance mostly...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
School board member Jim Richards said he saw no clear edict from voters Tuesday on where the new middle school should go.Board president Pam Walsh, who pledged to abide by the results of Tuesday’s vote if the charter amendments passed requiring public...
By RACHEL WACHMAN and DAVID BROOKS
Republican majorities in the State House remain as red as ever, and in some cases, more so.In the 24-member state Senate, Republicans were poised to pick up two seats, elevating their majority to 16-8.Locally, Daniel Innis of Bradford fought off a...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Democrat David Croft narrowly won re-election as Merrimack County Sheriff, fending off a challenge from Republican Frank Cassidy in a race that pitted former coworkers against each other.Croft, who will serve a third two-year term, captured 52%...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
New Hampshire’s Executive Council is likely to once again have only one Democrat, with Karen Liot Hill securing victory in District 2 on Wednesday morning.Hill, from Lebanon, a long-time city councilor, received 57% of the vote, beating Republican Kim...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Maggie Goodlander’s Washington D.C. resume was long from the beginning. She’d worked in the Department of Justice, clerked for the United States Supreme Court and served as an intelligence officer in the Naval Reserve. Now, she has added U.S. Congress...
By DAVID BROOKS
Some elected officials have received letters claiming that they were violating the New Hampshire Constitution by following the state’s procedure for elections, prompting the Secretary of State to tell officials to ignore the letter and proceed as...
By DAVID BROOKS
A woman died in a Monday evening house fire in Raymond.New Hampshire State Fire Marshal Sean P. Toomey, Raymond Fire Chief Paul Hammond and Raymond Police Chief Michael Labell said Tuesday that the house at 13 Hummingbird Lane was reported on fire...
By DAVID BROOKS
The AccuVote machines in Laconia’s Ward 3 is among those in eight polling places that were randomly chosen to be audited following Tuesday’s election.Two places using the new VotingWords device, Moultonborough and Rochester Ward 2, will also be...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
EXETER – In the quarterfinals Lexi Insana scored off the game-winning goal in overtime. On Monday night, the senior midfielder scored another. Insana headed in a corner kick taken on the left wing by freshman defender Zoey Lupien, just out of reach of...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
EXETER – Coe-Brown was hoping to make a return trip to the Division II girls’ soccer championship, but McKenna Maguire put a stop to that quickly. Maguire, Hollis-Brookline’s senior forward, scored four goals in the first half to lift the No. 1...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Slot machines could soon make their way into New Hampshire’s gaming halls — if set at the same playing speed as historical horse racing machines.Across many states with legal casinos, historical horse racing (HHR) machines have been a workaround for...
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