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By PAUL STEINHAUSER

President Joe Biden returns to New Hampshire next week for his second visit in two months to the only general election battleground state in New England.The president will hold an official White House event in Merrimack.Afterward, Democratic sources...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Vikram Mansharamani charges that “Washington D.C. is completely dysfunctional,” but he’s hoping voters send him there to help fix the gridlock.Mansharamani, a businessman, entrepreneur, and author who made an unsuccessful run for the 2022 Republican...

By RALPH JIMENEZ

Concord Reads, the one city-one book, community-building program launched in 2002, has awakened from its pandemic hibernation, shaken off sleep, and leapt into 2024 with its choice of Unlikely Animals, by Massachusetts writer Annie Hartnett.The novel...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

With just over seven months to go until the November election, New Hampshire Democrats are expanding their operations in the key northeastern battleground state as they aim to reelect President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and boost...

By GAIL MATTHEWS

Some of the life lessons learned in the theatre: self awareness, teamwork, time management, dealing with all types of people and situations, being realistic, being adaptive with good problem-solving skills, and not letting the problem of everyday life...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu got what he asked for from state lawmakers on Friday, who approved funding for New Hampshire troops to help secure America’s southern border with Mexico.The governor formally requested $850,000 to send up to 15 National...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

While President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced political setbacks this past week, when it comes to their campaigns locking up the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, both hit the jackpot in Las Vegas.Three days after...

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 PAUL STEINHAUSER

Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina – endorsing Donald Trump at Concord’s Grappone Center – was the latest sign of a Republican Party that’s closing ranks around the former president’s 2024 bid.“We need a president who doesn’t see black or...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Frigid weather kept temperatures well below freezing across the entire Northeast as the sun rose on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 4.But inside a downtown hotel in Philadelphia, Democratic Party politics was heating up.A few hours later, the Democratic...

By PAUL MARINO

In October, the Canadian Forest Service sent a research officer to Maine and New Hampshire to see firsthand an invasive insect that could take a huge toll on Canadian forests if we accidentally send it north.Red pine scale (RPS) is a slow-moving...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

With six weeks to go until New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, Gov. Chris Sununu took sides in the race for the 2024 Republican nomination.The popular governor who’s serving his fourth two-year term steering the Granite State...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

An assertive Gov. Chris Sununu – on the presidential campaign trail this week – was unapologetic about New Hampshire’s move to keep its presidential primary first in the nation.“Yes, we are first,” Sununu boasted. “Suck it, South Carolina.” New...

By SARAH DONOVAN

The deafening whirring sound of the shaper drowned the entirety of the wood shop as Myrl Phelps carefully guided a thin piece of pine through the machine, giving a quick demonstration of how the blade is used to carve out a decorative molding.Phelps...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Gov. Chris Sununu has been teaming up with the Republican presidential candidates on the campaign trail in New Hampshire this autumn.But the Granite State’s popular GOP governor won’t be joining Vivek Ramaswamy when the 38-year-old multi-millionaire...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

For two and a half years, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been one of former President Donald Trump’s harshest critics in the Republican Party.And as he bids for the 2024 GOP nomination in a race where Trump is the commanding front-runner,...

By GAIL PAGE

It’s been described as a war. A war between the plastics industries and the movement toward a cleaner, safer environment. Like most wars, the sides are not even. The plastics industries are endowed with billions of dollars, herds of lawyers and...

By KHADIJA AHMED

Mischa Fay was like a lot of kids growing up around Lake Winnipesaukee – he liked boating, Star Wars and pizza. He also loved playing hockey, spending time with his sisters and cheering on the Boston Bruins with his dad. Known as kind and soft-spoken,...

By BOB and DIANA WIITA

Rollins Court is a Pocket Neighborhood at the former location of St. Peter’s Church on North State Street nestled in the heart of Concord.Jon Chorlian a noted local developer chose to develop using his law background together with doing something he...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

If you needed additional proof of the bad blood between the most popular Republican in New Hampshire and the commanding front-runner for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination, you got it this week as former President Donald Trump threw punches at...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

It’s a tradition in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state – White House hopefuls marching in our Independence Day parades in the year before the presidential primary.And even though next year’s nominating calendar and New Hampshire’s...