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By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire had 11,761 births in 2024, the lowest number in modern times, as a bump in births after COVID has ended and the state has returned to the long trend of fewer babies being born here every year.

By DAVID BROOKS

Remember all the COVID-related shortages we faced five years ago? I bet you remember toilet paper; it made for the best jokes. But you may have forgotten the big hiccups that occurred in the supply of something more significant than pulp-based hygiene products: Food.

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord may finally be joining the list of places putting solar farms atop their closed landfills.

By DAVID BROOKS

The most unusual home in Hopkinton, one that over the years has been nicknamed the Marshmallow House, the Space Pod, the Fiberglass Folly and more, is changing hands.

By DAVID BROOKS

The Grappone Auto Group is selling two of its franchises, Toyota and Hyundai, as the company completes the transition into the fourth generation of family ownership.

By DAVID BROOKS

Earle “Chip” Chesley, Concord’s director of general services, will retire after 22 years of overseeing the city's infrastructure and essential public works services.

By DAVID BROOKS

The craft beer industry is undergoing a shakeout after years of growth, so if you’re going to expand your small brewery, it helps to have some help. Like 182 solar panels.

By DAVID BROOKS

A group of New Hampshire business officials gathered in Concord Tuesday to express alarm about proposed cuts to state support for the university system and they made no mistake about who they blamed. 

By DAVID BROOKS

Few activities get more public support than picking up litter from the side of the road. But to mark Earth Day, I’m about to argue that we shouldn’t do it.

By DAVID BROOKS

A little-known organization that helps 17 towns and school districts buy cheaper health insurance says it’s going under, prompting the state to step in.

By DAVID BROOKS

Wildfire season is here, says the state Division of Forest and Lands, which ranked Friday as the first “high danger” day of the year for fires.

By DAVID BROOKS

As the Trump administration goes all-in with efforts to reinvigorate the nation’s use of coal, the owners of the region’s last coal-fired power plant say they still plan to eventually replace the Bow facility with solar panels and batteries.

By DAVID BROOKS

No, there wasn’t a bad accident at the State House today: All those ambulances are in the middle of Concord because of the hearing on two bills that concern them.

By DAVID BROOKS

A beaver dam holding back a pond collapsed Tuesday afternoon, sending a deluge of water over a portion of Elm Street in Penacook and closing the road for a day.

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice James Bassett will retire from the court at the end of August.

By DAVID BROOKS

If you’re wondering why nothing obvious is happening at the closed Steeplegate Mall to convert it into a massive mixed-use development, consider the situation of the largest remaining tenant, JCPenney.

By DAVID BROOKS

You don’t have to tell Alan Cattabriga that the invasive spotted lanternfly is a real pain. The senior manager at Millikan Nursery in Chichester has been out in the rain looking for the nasty bugs’ egg masses on imported plants more times than he cares to remember.

By DAVID BROOKS

After 41 years of encouraging New Hampshire businesses to support the arts, the NHBCA is doing something unusual for a non-profit advocacy group: shutting down even though it doesn’t have to.

By DAVID BROOKS

After years of false alarms that came and went, May 7, the true deadline for when Real IDs will become the only license accepted as identification to board a commercial airline in the U.S., even for domestic flights, and to get into many federal facilities, is arriving.

By DAVID BROOKS

Rows of empty propane tanks at Healey Park near Exit 13 in Concord have again brought attention to the problem of trash from homeless encampents in the city, a problem that volunteers say the homeless themselves would like to help solve.

By DAVID BROOKS

Getting a New Hampshire driver’s license would be practically impossible for refugees and more complicated for immigrants who are studying or working here under a proposed law that has passed the House.