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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After months of speculation that he may seek a White House bid, Gov. Chris Sununu announced Monday that he will not run for president in 2024. It’s a sharp change of tune for Sununu, who has publicly discussed his potential run for president in the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Ashley Miller loves to tell visitors about Marilla Ricker when they walk into the State Archives. Years before women had the right to vote, Ricker demanded her name be on New Hampshire ballots.She was the first female lawyer in the state and demanded...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Dennis Jakubowski put on his washed green hat, stitched with a white peace sign, and headed to the Loudon polls Tuesday morning. Jakubowski, 70, hoped he could sway his neighbors to vote down ballot Democrat. In a narrowly divided legislature, every...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the bottom corner of campaign signs speckled on green front lawns, a white outline of the state is accompanied by the lettering “printed in New Hampshire.”It’s a small marker that Keystone Press in Manchester puts on signs for races up and down the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Kelly Ayotte doesn’t want to “Mass Up New Hampshire” but she does want her message to hit all channels ahead of the primary.Her opponent, Chuck Morse, also followed suit. Ahead of the primary for New Hampshire’s corner office, the two Republican...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jon Kiper knows that when voters look at the ballot on Tuesday, they probably won’t recognize his name.He's held local office in his Seacoast town of 9,000 but he's not on people’s televisions in attack advertisements like his competitors. Unless they...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Sumana Anand didn’t know much about Kelly Ayotte or Chuck Morse when she took her seat in the auditorium of New England College.The 17-year-old student from Derry kicked off her freshman year by attending her first candidate debate just before she...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In response to a shooting where four people were killed at a high school in Georgia – Lily Tang Williams cited her endorsement from 18 local gun shops and said gun-free zones can cost lives. She wants more Americans to arm themselves, which is their...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

New Hampshire’s gubernatorial candidates are in agreement with voters: housing in the state is at a crisis point.To Cinde Warmington, the lone Democrat on the Executive Council, there’s one person to blame for the current state of affairs: Governor...

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

Members of New Hampshire’s National Guard will be deployed to the Southern Border in Texas, after the legislature authorized $850,000 in funding Friday. Governor Chris Sununu asked the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee for the funding after he...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Governor Chris Sununu is not shy when it comes to presenting New Hampshire as the “envy of the nation.” He’s said it in speeches in Concord, on national television and once again in his final State of the State address.“Our economy was ranked as the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In Concord’s Equality Health Center, a historic home converted into a family planning facility, narrow hallways lead to exam rooms and counseling areas featuring old fireplaces. The clinic has its quirks, but one thing in particular is a favorite to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

It is Chris Sununu’s last term in the state’s corner office. The four-term governor announced Wednesday that he will not be running for reelection in 2024. This is not the first race Sununu has opted out of this year. He announced last month that he...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The Democratic race for governor has its first official candidate as Cinde Warmington, the Executive Council’s lone Democrat, launched her bid for the corner office Thursday.Warmington, who is serving her second term on the five-member council,...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

More than half of New Hampshire mayors have called for additional state funding and support to deal with the “immediate” homelessness crisis following the death of a woman and the birth of a baby in a freezing tent in Manchester last month.The letter...

By RAY DUCKLER

Mark Patterson of Weare had it all figured out.Fresh off six-years of service in the Navy, he’d then finish his business degree at what was then called New Hampshire College. He’d be a college graduate, the first member of his family to do so.He’d...

By ELLA NILSEN 

When former Gov. John Lynch was first elected in 2004, he suggested to his wife Susan that their kids could have a sleepover in the Governor’s Mansion, also known as the Bridges House.She shot the idea down immediately. “Susan was adamantly against...