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By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Another New Hampshire presidential primary is in the books, and some political prognosticators are quick to proclaim that the Granite State’s storied first-in-the-nation primary and cherished candidate-to-voter retail-style campaigning are both on...

By JAMES FIESEHER

James Fieseher MD, FAAFP, retired, lives in Dover. There’s an old joke about a lazy man with a leaky roof. When it rained, water was everywhere, ruining his carpets and furniture. A visiting neighbor asked him why he didn’t fix the roof, and the man...

Girls’ Nordic SkiingNH Coaches Series Race #1Key players: Hopkinton – Elizabeth Trafton (13th, 11:12), Florence Dapice (25th, 12:18), Isabel Afflerbach (35th), Lia Chapin (39th), Amelia Walsh (47th); Kearsarge – Ava Valle (28th), Katherine Blagden...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Homelessness is a complex issue in New Hampshire, compounded by a housing shortage and often exacerbated by mental health and substance abuse. But at the state and federal level lawmakers have a solution – provide funding to local agencies to help...

By RAY DUCKLER

Select Board Chairman Carl Anderson knows the word “taxes” might cause an uneasy feeling Saturday at the deliberative session of the annual Pittsfield Town Meeting.He also knows that taxes are unavoidable, a way to better serve towns throughout the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

SOUTH ROYALTON — A 92-year-old grandmother from Massachusetts who apparently lost her way while driving was killed when her vehicle was struck by a train at a railroad crossing in South Royalton early Wednesday, a tragic outcome for worried family...

By JONATHAN VAN FLEET

Rising special education and transportation costs in Epsom – two things school officials have little control over – have led to a proposed budget that carries a significant tax increase.If the $14.2 million Epsom school budget is passed, it would...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. — The Republican-led but closely divided New Hampshire House rejected three abortion bills Thursday, refusing to either further restrict or protect reproductive rights.Current state law prohibits abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy...

By ROBERT YOON

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has won the last remaining unresolved delegate from New Hampshire, giving him a 13-9 delegate advantage in the Granite State over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.The Associated Press allocated the final...

Boys’ BasketballFranklin 53, Pittsfield 35Key players: Franklin – Zeke McCoy (17 points)Highlights:  McCoy now sits just four points shy of 1,000 for his career, scoring 17 against the Panthers and getting the Tornadoes back into the win column after...

By LUCY KARL

Lucy Karl is a devoted mother and retired attorney in Hopkinton. A bipartisan group of New Hampshire legislators has introduced end-of-life legislation, which gives true meaning to our state’s motto: “Live Free or Die.” The New Hampshire End of Life...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – Crimson Tide head coach Kate Billings could exhale. She’d just watched her team nearly blow a 4-1 third period lead but hang on for a 4-3 win over Kingswood-Prospect Mountain (4-8) on Wednesday night for Concord’s third consecutive...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

CONCORD – It was about as bad a night as Bow (8-4) could’ve had. A game at home against an inferior team in Bedford (5-5) with a chance to move to 9-3 on the season turned into a bloodbath. The Falcons trailed 2-1 after the first period and 5-1 after...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Unveiling a $1.4 million program to increase police presence at the northern border last year, state officials asserted that rising illegal crossings from Canada into New Hampshire posed a crisis.New data obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Newport School Board member who co-hosts a podcast that espouses conservative values is facing criminal charges of having engaged in sex with a minor teenager more than six years ago in Vermont.Tim Beard, who was appointed to...

By RAY DUCKLER

The costs of two vital programs in Allenstown – solid waste disposal and recycling, and fire and ambulance services – are contributing to a proposed 17% budget increase that will be discussed at the town’s deliberative session on Saturday.Town...

By DAVID BROOKS

Financial problems that left it $100,000 in the hole and disagreements about future direction have led the Kimball Jenkins center in Concord to replace the executive director and get rid of two other staffers, but for the moment at least programming...

By DAVID BROOKS

Small companies are encouraged to start up near potential customers. So why is Rotor, which hopes to turn small helicopters into autonomous crop-dusting machines for big farms out west, based at Nashua Airport and testing prototypes from a private...

By JILL HARMACINSKI

ATKINSON — Colleen Ann Murphy, the doctor who runs the Diaper Spa in a quiet neighborhood, said she has an extremely small business with the majority of her work with clients conducted remotely.Her business helps clients deal with current and past...

By PARKER POTTER

Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dog walker who lives and works in Contoocook. In my last My Turn, I wrote about happy accidents my family has experienced while...