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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon may have prevailed in a contentious three-way state Senate primary in the heavily Democratic Concord area, but a key test for her candidacy, and her potential first term, is still ahead.On Monday, the state Legislative Ethics Committee...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Democrat Karen Liot Hill edged out Mike Liberty, while Republican Kim Strathdee beat Mary Rose Deak for their respective District 2 Executive Council nominations.The final results, which were not called until around 12:30 a.m., saw Hill clinch the win...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Career law enforcement official Frank Cassidy coasted to victory in the Republican primary for Merrimack County Sheriff, vaulting him to a general election contest against Democrat David Croft, the current sheriff and Cassidy’s former boss.Cassidy...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

At 8:46 a.m., the bells of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Allenstown began to toll, marking the exact time American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower in New York City 23 years ago. Solemn vibrations echoed throughout the church and...

By GRACE KASEKE KINDEKE

Grace Kaseke Kindeke is an artist, the AFSC-NH Program Coordinator and a B.A. student of Africana Studies and Sociology at UMASS Boston. She was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and lives in Manchester. In 2012, President Obama announced a new...

Girls’ SoccerConcord 2, Pinkerton 2Key players: Concord – Kate Dickson (goal), Laura Vitoria (goal), Willa Marino (assist), Kaylee Delocallano (defense), Cam Dubois (7 saves)Highlights: Vitoria stole the ball in the attacking third and finished it to...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon, long-time former state representative from Concord and current county commissioner, won the Democratic primary for the state Senate representing the Capital Region by a 372-vote margin. In the three-way race between Reardon and two...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY, SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN and JEREMY MARGOLIS

The race between Nashua native Maggie Goodlander and fellow Democrat Colin Van Ostern for the second congressional district nomination was never close.Even in Van Ostern’s hometown of Concord, Goodlander beat him in all 10 city wards with 63% of the...

By ALEXANDER RAPP, RACHEL WACHMANand MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Dennis Martin heard “Don’t Mass Up New Hampshire” and he was sold. The U.S. Coast Guard veteran moved to Londonderry 24 years ago from the “People's Republic of communism, Massachusetts.” He hasn’t looked back. “This was the best slogan I’ve heard in...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Some voters in Allenstown wound up at the wrong voting location after the town switched from St. John the Baptist Church to Allenstown Elementary School, which is now unoccupied.Allenstown town moderator Judy Silva said the town made sure to publicize...

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 CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Paige Beauchemin showed up at Ledge Street Elementary School in Nashua at 5:45 a.m. on Election Day came with a mission.The state representative for the city’s fourth ward said she’ll be camped out by the polling place throughout the day and plans to...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

After casting his ballot at the Hopkinton Middle High School on Tuesday, Mark Winzeler didn’t hold back.“It’s the ugliest campaign I’ve ever witnessed,” said the 70-year-old. “All the political advertisements with shots against each other, I’m just...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Two transgender girls in New Hampshire may continue playing on girls’ sports teams indefinitely, despite a newly enacted law that bars them from doing so, a federal court judge ruled Tuesday.Judge Landya McCafferty granted a request for a preliminary...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Concord High’s volleyball team could not pull off a comeback against Nashua North on Monday night and lost in four sets despite a valiant effort, leaving the Crimson Tide (0-3) in the hunt for their first win.The Tide had a sluggish start to the match...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the Concord School Board’s position that the charter amendments need a three-fifths vote to pass.Nicole Fox, the mother of three children in the Concord School District, believes the Concord School...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Ward 5 polling station at the Christa McAuliffe School was the epicenter of election day energy in the Capital City Tuesday morning. Not long after voting began, a swarm of CindeWarmington supporters flocked to the courtyard outside the school...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Two new festivals will bring art, music and reading to the streets of downtown this October.Bringing more than 50 authors to Concord, the New Hampshire Book Festival will land in Concord on Oct. 4-5.Novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz and Kate DiCamillo,...

A Concord man was arrested by city police on Monday night on a warrant stemming from an August incident during which he allegedly was in possession of a stolen handgun, methamphetamine, and fentanyl, and tried to hide them from police, according to...

By ALEXANDER RAPP and RACHEL WACHMAN

Democratic gubernatorial candidates Cinde Warmington and Joyce Craig began their days early by casting their votes and greeting voters in their home cities.In their final push to win the Democratic nomination, the candidates intend to spend their days...