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By DAVID BROOKS

Two newcomers are vying for a one-year seat on the Weare School Board, finishing the term of William Politt, who is stepping down. It is the only contested race on the ballot.

By DAVID BROOKS

Jacob Morrill, the assistant principal of Hopkinton Middle High School, will be the new principal of Henniker Community School.

By DAVID BROOKS

This winter has been a little colder than average but much less snowy in Concord, which has been fine for winter sports but done nothing to help the state’s drought.

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s a total lunar eclipse happening early – very, very early – on Friday, March 14, and it’s the first one visible here since 2022.

By DAVID BROOKS

This is the time of year when property taxes are on the mind of everybody facing town meeting, and although that isn’t usually considered a geek-centric topic, it can be.

By DAVID BROOKS

The Henniker town budget would increase 3.5% under a proposal that will go before residents at town meeting.

By DAVID BROOKS

From the point of view of New Hampshire ski area owners, this has been a good news/bad news season.

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire has joined 38 other states in adopting a program called C-PACER that lets commercial developers build certain types of projects involving clean energy more cheaply.

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to reducing hit-and-run fatalities it helps to be rural.

By DAVID BROOKS

By one measure, influenza is now more widespread in New Hampshire than during the huge flu spike at the end of 2022, part of the reason CDC says the state is seeing “very high” levels of all illnesses related to breathing.

By DAVID BROOKS

I don’t know about you but I’ve got more snow in my yard right now than I’ve had for at least three winters.

By DAVID BROOKS

The department that oversees private insurance in New Hampshire has warned companies that it takes more than an aerial photo or two of a house to make decisions about issuing a policy.

By DAVID BROOKS

In light of recent problems with ski area chairlifts around New Hampshire, including a stalled chairlift that required suspended riders to be lowered to the ground at Pats Peak this week, the Monitor gathered information about how they are inspected by the state.

By DAVID BROOKS

With around a foot and a half of snow on the ground in and around Concord, some aspects of city life are getting a bit tricky – particularly involving parking cars.

By DAVID BROOKS

A Concord man working as a snowmobile guide was injured Wednesday when a client ran over him while getting out of a snowbank, one of a series of recent accidents as New Hampshire has the best snowmobile season in several years.

By DAVID BROOKS

Remember that line in “Jurassic Park” where Jeff Goldblum’s character says “Scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

By DAVID BROOKS

It’s pretty straightforward to get a marriage certificate in New Hampshire as long as you’re at least 18 years old, but you need to gather the right documents first.

By DAVID BROOKS

It’s been a tough couple of weeks for chairlifts at New Hampshire ski areas. On Monday it was Pats Peak’s turn.

By DAVID BROOKS

In the latest leg of a long-running debate, a House committee killed a bill that would have prevented public water fluoridation in New Hampshire.

By DAVID BROOKS

As the president-elect of the American Dental Association, Dr. Richard Rosato would like to untangle the paradoxical way dentistry is health care that often isn’t considered part of health care.