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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The city of Concord is looking to further coordinate its response to homelessness in the state capital with the help of a new program manager.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Mayor Byron Champlin took a moment away from talking about housing development in Concord to ask a favor of business leaders in the room.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The city of Concord should want people with relevant experience to give advice about pressing issues — that’s how Steve Shurtleff sees it.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord residents might soon be able to install an accessory dwelling unit or host a daycare at their home by right. Businesses might be able to more easily obtain and change their signage, and typos in the zoning rules might be corrected.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Jennifer Kretovic sees the ethics complaint against her and members of the Golf Course Advisory Committee as really about one thing. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With a decision looming about the multi-million dollar plan to build a new clubhouse at Beaver Meadow Golf Course, an ethics complaint about a committee that helps govern the city-owned facility has fallen into the lap of the Concord City Council.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

For the 12 years Landrine Tumaini has lived near Keach Park, she’s gone for walks, shot hoops and played soccer there.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After a push to reimagine the way the city regulates development was quietly abandoned, the City of Concord will pursue changes to some zoning rules in the coming months to the relief of local business leaders.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The vast majority of issues taken up by the Concord City Council are first reviewed by one or more of several dozen committees, which make recommendations about city decisions.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord is divided down the middle by the Merrimack River. The Loudon Road bridge, with 25,000 crossings on an average day, is the main artery between downtown and the Heights, an essential link between the city’s two centers of gravity.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

More than a year after the Concord City Council put off a vote on the Beaver Meadow clubhouse to develop more options, city proposals and flaring tensions have boxed the debate back into a starkly similar binary: all or nothing.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord City Council will get an update on plans for the Beaver Meadow Golf Course clubhouse amid a new ethics complaint against a city committee that recommended the city build anew.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A developer looking to build nearly 200 units of housing in Penacook has asked the Zoning Board to reexamine the city’s denial of the project, claiming that the rejection means he is “deprived of any reasonable use of the land” by the city.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Just as the city of Concord’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging Committee has started to put rubber to road, laying out the timeline for their first action steps, the national climate surrounding their work has changed.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As leaders from the Concord School District and city government prepare to convene on the future of Memorial Field, some mutual agreement has emerged that the project ought to move forward sooner rather than later.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The City of Concord and the fire officers union have agreed on a new contract that, as pursued by the union, brings its annual pay increases and educational incentives more in line with those received by the police department. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A direct walk and bike path connecting Storrs Street, or even Main Street, to the trails on the east bank of the Merrimack River. A deck over the riverbank with room for picnics, benches and food trucks. A slatted, undulating wood architecture creating a “gateway to the mountains” that arches over the interstate. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Marcy Charette formed a new alliance of Concord taxpayers opposed to expansive municipal projects that benefit few and “threaten to throw many of us into poverty.”

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With more income than expected from property tax bills, vehicle registrations and ambulance charges, the City of Concord ended the 2024 fiscal year with a more than $1.4 million surplus in its general operating budget.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

City Councilor Karen McNamara had heard the criticism, and she’d heard enough.

By DAVID BROOKS

Relatively low winter power rates from the state’s electric utilities have led to a change in Concord’s community power program.