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By ALYSSA DANDREA

A bill proposing to expand the sex offender registry to include those convicted of disseminating private sexual images without the subject’s consent faced opposition at its first public hearing Thursday.House Bill 1426 would require a first-time...

By DAVID BROOKS

When Jamie Sayen describes Groveton as a “company town,” shaped and shaken from top to bottom by the rise and fall of its paper mills, he’s not kidding. In its heyday, Groveton Papers even crawled inside your nose.“I knew it was important to get home...

By DAVID BROOKS

Early November snowfall has gotten plenty of folks looking forward to zooming down New Hampshire mountains on skis. But a surprising number of them are willing – even eager – to hike uphill in order to do it.“This is the fastest-growing segment of the...

By RAY DUCKLER

In Kath Barbadoro’s world, a world of laughter, things haven’t seemed very funny lately.That’s because Louis C.K., the famous comedian who was exposed for exposing himself to women, held up a mirror to male society, forcing it to acknowledge the...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

Jeffrey White knew something wasn’t right with his son Alec.It hit him in the face when the 16-year-old tried to overdose last spring. He knew his son needed help and he tried his best to get it for him.Just last month, White, 46, went to a suicide...

In 2015, one of the Monitor’s best-read stories were of an emu found on the lam in the Bow woods.After about a week from the intial sighting, the bird, Beatrice, was captured by Kevin Welch, Sam Seagroves and Joe Miller and brought to Wings of Dawn...

By DAVID BROOKS

In his 20 years as New Hampshire’s medical examiner, Dr. Thomas Andrew has consulted with medical specialists, weapons specialists, crime-scene specialists, specialists about which bugs get attracted to corpses – and, once, a plant specialist.“It...

By RAY DUCKLER

Buzz Gagne likes to poke fun at himself.I discovered that he doesn’t deserve it.He says he’s round, shrinking, achy and old, but the record book shows he’s dynamite with a javelin, throwing it farther than anyone else ever has for his age bracket – 70...

By NICK REID

Seven people were arrested and charged with drug crimes Thursday at a suspected Concord drug den where a person recently died of an overdose.Concord police and a special operations unit searched the 52 Concord St. apartment in the early morning hours...

By RAY DUCKLER

Herbie’s backers loved him, struck by his humble start and bare-knuckled fight for government transparency, and his penchant to help the poor and elderly in a city that sometimes ignored them.To others, though, he was a monkey wrench, a troublemaker,...

By RAY DUCKLER

The bronze image of John Winant, unveiled Friday at the State Library, stayed covered and unseen through most of the ceremony.Just like the memory of the man himself. But eventually the black cloth came off, removed by a pair of family members and the...

By ALLIE MORRIS

A New Hampshire Superior Court judge has sided with a family suing the state child protection agency in a ruling that could pave the way to making confidential abuse and neglect records open to the public.“The Court finds defendants’ interests in...

By ALLIE MORRIS

It’s not often middle-schoolers get married in New Hampshire. But it’s still perfectly legal, after the Republican-led House killed a bill Thursday to raise the marriage age to 18.The rejection leaves intact a state law that lets girls get married as...

By DAVID BROOKS

Spring skiing has great appeal, but a decade’s worth of data from the state medical examiner shows a possible other side: It might be the deadliest time to head downhill.Since 2007, the state office has rendered an official cause of death for 18...

By RAY DUCKLER

The snow is frozen, making each step sound like you’re eating crunchy breakfast cereal.There’s a slight downward slope through brush and trees, so we’re cautious as we move to the spots where a pair of barrels were found years ago, barrels mixed with...

By RAY DUCKLER

For a brief period, the buttoned-up attorney general didn’t sound buttoned up.Not this time. Not when talking about Bob Evans, or Lawrence William Vanner, or whatever the guy’s name was, the guy who killed four females in the 1980s and then dumped...

By ALLIE MORRIS

Twenty-thousand dollars is a big pay raise. That’s how much Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is making over his predecessor, after he broke with the past practice of accepting reduced pay. Sununu is set to make $132,592.30 this year, the maximum allowed...

By NICK REID

A New Hampshire woman has become the first known person to complete a vaunted White Mountains hiking challenge – which takes some hikers a lifetime – within a single year.Sue Johnston of Littleton hiked each of the state’s 4,000-foot mountains in...

By ELLA NILSEN

In 1983, a 10-year-old Chris Sununu stood on the ski slopes of Loon Mountain with his parents, then-governor John H. Sununu and state first lady Nancy Sununu, and five other siblings, all outfitted in puffy ski jackets, hats and goggles.It was the...

By ELLA NILSEN

James Mott knew people who tweaked when they used methamphetamine, hearing voices and seeing things that weren’t there.But Mott, who started using methamphetamine as a way to wean himself off heroin, said the synthetic stimulant never made him act...