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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

In an ongoing legal battle between Anthony Sanborn, owner of now-shuttered Concord Casino, and the New Hampshire Attorney General, a new issue involving the handling of privileged documents has emerged.On Aug. 21, Judge John Kissinger of the Merrimack...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

As the Sept. 10 state primary election draws ever closer, candidates are going full-throttle with attack ads. Last week, the attack-du-jour was between Democratic candidates for governor, Joyce Craig and Cinde Warmington.Warmington, an executive...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Last fall, high school teacher Penny Culliton received a notice from the New Hampshire Department of Education that appeared to expand the scope of a parental notification law passed in 2017. The department’s initial advisory to schools had said that...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A University of New Hampshire prosecutor on Tuesday dropped criminal charges against at least four of the people arrested during a May 1 pro-Palestine protest after they reportedly accepted plea agreements.The four cases were dismissed nearly three...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

New Hampshire’s casino industry is growing rapidly, with 12 active casinos and four more in the pipeline, yet none are locally owned.Originally intended to be small, locally owned establishments designed to support local charities and nonprofits, many...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Tuition at New Hampshire’s seven community colleges will not increase this coming school year, the Community College System of New Hampshire announced Thursday.Since 2018, a full community college course load has cost $6,450 per year or $215 per...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The ACLU of New Hampshire on Wednesday called on the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College to drop trespassing and disorderly conduct charges against pro-Palestine protesters arrested on May 1.In a letter to the presidents of the two...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Starting this month, New Hampshire will enforce a significant change to its lead law to reduce exposure in buildings constructed before 1978, which is expected to lower the number of young children exposed to lead hazards.The new section of the law...

By DAVID BROOKS

Officials are looking for a Massachusetts man whose car has been parked at the Crawford Path parking lot for roughly two weeks, although they’re unsure whether he went hiking into the White Mountain National Forest.William Neal Donovan, 65, of...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Concord Casino’s doors are set to shut after the New Hampshire Lottery Commission suspended owner Andy Sanborn operating and gaming licenses for six months.The ruling announced Thursday on accusations that Sanborn fraudulently obtained and used...

The state Attorney General’s Office will take a look at one of the most contentious legal questions of the presidential race: whether Donald Trump’s actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol means he can’t be elected again.“The...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When Andrew Georgevits was a substitute teacher at Franklin Middle School a few years ago, he quickly realized that in the eighth grade class he was teaching, reading levels varied drastically between students.Many districts have found those learning...

By GEOFF FORESTER

Mike Blout has been around the block more than once.So has his bedazzled 1999 Harley Davidson Electra Glide with 374,000 miles on it.Blout, of Bristol, has been across the country five or six times with his wife on that motorcycle, a former police...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH 

New Hampshire’s number of new births seems to have rebounded from a slump in early 2021, staving off fears of a pandemic-related “baby bust.” In fact, according to CDC data, New Hampshire saw more births in the first nine months of 2021 than in 2020,...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Granite Staters can now order at-home rapid COVID-19 tests for free through the state’s partnership with the National Institute of Health and Amazon.Eight rapid COVID-19 tests can be ordered at sayyeshometest.org and will be delivered via Amazon...

By DAVID BROOKS

As I write this, the state’s official numbers indicated that 2,712 state residents have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past two weeks, about 8% more than the 2,520 who have been added to the tally of those who are fully vaccinated.In other words,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Autumn is many people’s favorite season in New England, but as far as changing climate is concerned it is proving to be the most unusual.That’s one of the surprises from newly updated 30-year “normals” released by the National Weather Service.The...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTHand ETHAN DEWITT

This week, nearly all adult residents of New Hampshire will be eligible to schedule a COVID-19 vaccine appointment. Don’t throw your mask out yet, though.Late last week Gov. Chris Sununu said the state-wide mask mandate would be extended along with...

By DAVID BROOKS

Some trees in New Hampshire that have been certified as the biggest in their species are going to lose their title – not because they’re shrinking, but because a change has been made in how to measure trees with multiple trunks.Already dethroned is an...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire is waiting to receive test kits that will let the state know if the new coronavirus known as COVID-19 shows up in New Hampshire, a search that will be complicated by a surging flu season that has risen to levels not seen since 2018.If...

By ETHAN DeWITT

As New Hampshire’s gubernatorial contest races into gear, Gov. Chris Sununu and State Sen. Dan Feltes posted the biggest cash hauls on Wednesday, the deadline to file and release reports of how much money they’ve raised and from whom.Sununu showed a...