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By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

 Nearly 168,000 Granite Staters were providing critical home-based care to older people or adults with a serious health condition in 2021, according to AARP’s latest update to its “Valuing the Invaluable” report. An estimated 30 percent of them were...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Gov. Chris Sununu declined Wednesday to say whether he will call for a review of the state’s handling of nearly 25 reports of suspected abuse against four Laconia children, one of whom died from blunt force trauma in 2019, shortly after the last...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Judy Anderson had grown impatient by the time she marched into the Laconia mayor’s office in October with a photo of 5-year-old Dennis Vaughan Jr. to remind him that the boy’s 2019 homicide in his grandmother’s Laconia apartment remains...

By ETHAN DEWITT

When the New Hampshire Department of Education investigates a teacher for a potential code of conduct violation, they send a notice in the mail. Under a new proposed law, that teacher could also be served a subpoena. The New Hampshire Department of...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The daytime speed limit on the widest portion of Lake Winnipesaukee would go from 45 to 65 mph under a bill up for a public hearing Wednesday. If history and the testimony submitted ahead of Wednesday’s hearing are any indication, it will face a tough...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

When David Falkenham heard the state’s forester license is on the chopping block as part of budget talks in Concord, two words came to mind: “complete disaster.”What followed were thoughts about the timber harvest checks, ranging from $5,000 to...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Sixty-two percent of Granite Staters believe that it is a bad time to buy a house in New Hampshire, according to a new survey from the University of New Hampshire and the Business and Industry Association. And about 46 percent of state residents are...

By ETHAN DEWITT

When a proposal for a statewide law allowing single-family homes to be subdivided hit the New Hampshire House floor last week, the outcry was swift. House Bill 44 would have allowed any single-family homeowner connected to municipal sewer and water...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Not far from the old woolen mills, shoe factories, and more urban areas of industrial Rochester are swaths of undeveloped land abounding with vernal pools, sandy flats, and remnants of a small 19th-century granite quarry.Across the street from the...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

New Hampshire may be celebrated as the “Granite State,” but the centuries-old nickname also bears caution.Because of the widespread presence of granite bedrock, the state has high percentages of homes with elevated radon levels. An invisible threat,...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Ted Stiles asks people a trick question: “What is the greenest energy?”Wind or solar power, people enthusiastically proclaim. Maybe someone throws out hydropower. But the true answer, Stiles contends, is “the energy you’re not using at all.” An energy...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is recruiting new volunteers for the upcoming summer hiking season at Mount Major. The society’s Volunteer Trailhead Outreach Program is modeled after successful stewardship programs, like the...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Susan Durling wants to see a thumb on the scale for consumers. That’s what the Hillsborough resident told state lawmakers last week as she testified in support of a bill that would change the default electric service rate paid by residents and...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Republican Executive Councilor David Wheeler has made his votes against funding for family planning and sex education well known at council meetings. But for years, he’s made other potentially controversial votes quietly by taking no position during...

By ETHAN DEWITT

It wasn’t a physical school library book that sent Betsy Harrington into a state of alarm about high school reading material. It was an app.Harrington’s son, a student at Hillsboro-Deering High School, had found a book on Sora, an app that gives...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The number of Granite State adults and children without enough food dropped during the pandemic, in part because the federal government increased food stamp payments, according to a New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute analysis. That extra aid for...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Because of this winter’s unpredictable and fluctuating temperatures, New Hampshire Fish and Game officials are urging people to exercise caution when near ice. “With erratic weather conditions, some areas of ice may look safe, but may not be,” Col....

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS and ETHAN DeWITT

Gov. Chris Sununu has big plans for the state’s $330 million surplus and what he predicts will be ongoing strong tax revenue. He gave lawmakers a budget Tuesday that would give schools an additional $200 million a year and state employees a 10 percent...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

A woman arrived at the Palace Theater box office in Manchester recently with an online receipt for four tickets to “Newsies,” a kids' show with no seat over $15. The box office couldn’t find tickets under her name because she had unknowingly bought...

By ETHAN DEWITT

In 2021, New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission sent the state’s energy utilities into turmoil: It approved a plan to slash funding for the “NHSaves” energy efficiency program down to 2017 levels, sparking an outcry and legal challenges from the...