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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Despite a forecast for snow, heavy rain and high winds Wednesday night into Thursday, the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness will not reopen their emergency winter shelter for the night.The shelter, which is open from December through March, to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Julie Jussif feels sick to her stomach when she thinks about her current mortgage rate. When she bought her second home to size up for her young family, the interest was lightyears above her first. With a competitive housing market, she waived the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Colin Van Ostern, a former state Executive Councilor with a long resume as a political operative, will run for Congress this fall, he announced Thursday, the day after U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster announced she would not seek a seventh term.Van...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chris Sununu will celebrate his 50th birthday by turning over his seat in New Hampshire’s corner office. For a while, he thought the best birthday present would be going from a four-term state leader to President of the United States.Instead, he’ll...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A bill that would ease New Hampshire’s eviction process will now head to the Senate after House members passed the measure 194 to 180 on Thursday. Today, if a landlord wanted to terminate a lease with a tenant at the end of the contract, they are...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

It takes David Emerson an extra second these days to climb his ladder and drill a bolt into the beam overhead. At 81, he’s built a number of structures, including his own 3-bedroom home on his 25-acre property in Canterbury.His newest new project is a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As town officials ramp up spending year after year, people like Ray Olivier can’t keep up. On Saturday, the challenge for Oliver and other residents on fixed incomes became more pronounced after Pembroke voters approved a $11.6 million budget, which...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A routine audit of the town of Warner’s finances found officials were sometimes slow to deposit funds, late to pay credit card bills, and some account balances didn’t add up, among other financial irregularities.While the accounting firm of Vachon...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Art Ellison isn’t one to mince words. With a red blanket over his lap and a “support public education” t-shirt on, he has one final request as he rests at the Granite VNA hospice house.“Feed the damn kids,” he said.Ellison, a three-term House Democrat...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Michael Cutting opened Warner’s Town Meeting with a mea culpa. The long-time town budget committee chair admitted town spending over the last five years had gotten out of control.Since 2019, the town’s annual operating budget has increased from $4...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When Paula Gallion first saw the $3.24 tax impact for the operating and capital budget, she feared taxes on her home in Salisbury would increase by over a thousand dollars annually. She was in for a surprise.While other towns dealt with double-digit...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The way William O’Mahoney saw it, Pembroke voters had two options: price out the elderly or support schools. With a proposed budget of $33.8 million delivering a 28% tax increase, it was hard to feel like one didn’t come at the expense of the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

President Joe Biden will make his first appearance in the Granite State on Monday since before the presidential primary where his name did not appear on the ballot because of party politics.Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks on lowering costs for...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For Karen Coyne, Warner seemed like the perfect retirement town for her family. She and her husband bought a house on a dead-end road with seven other houses. And then for the past three years, they’ve seen double-digit tax increases forcing their...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chey Lorde hugged her blue stuffed animal tight, thinking about all she’d lost in the last year. In December, floods washed away her encampment site. In February, police threatened a no-trespassing order on their new spot in the woods. Every move...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

There are so few available apartments that Concord Housing and Redevelopment paused its housing voucher waitlist again on March 1.Thousands of applicants sit on the current list, and with an average turnover of 34 apartments per year, moving off the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A state program for struggling homeowners created with federal pandemic funding will close down next week as its money runs out.Since 2022, the New Hampshire Homeowners Assistance Fund helped residents to pay costs throughout the pandemic – like...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When the Legislature reconvened in January, the new session was met with a record number of housing bills. But Elissa Margolin is holding off on crowning this session as the “year of housing” – until she sees what policy makes it to the governor’s...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Like any former Concord High graduate, Dalton Mutz knows the limitations of Memorial Field. With poor drainage after rain, the facility has garnered the nickname “the swamp." Mutz, who ran track and graduated in 2018, decided to move back to Concord...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jeff Wells wants the Concord School Board to go back to the drawing board on their $176 million plans to build a new middle school on the city’s east side. And he’s not alone.Along with a dozen other residents known as Concerned Citizens for...