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By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut will depart from his role at the end of the current school year, Gov. Kelly Ayotte announced Thursday afternoon.

By DAVID BROOKS

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: New Hampshire’s population grew slightly last year but only because of transplants moving into the state, since more state residents are dying than are born.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Bow landowners looking to conserve their property now have a new option to secure financial support following a vote by residents at Wednesday’s annual town meeting.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to remove income requirements for the state’s school choice program starting in July 2026 in a win for the Legislature’s increased Republican majority.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

State lawmakers heard an earful from constituents, advocates and local officials denouncing the state’s current school funding formula and Education Freedom Accounts this week.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

MANCHESTER – Two goals from senior forward Rowan Arndt and a nearly impeccable game from freshman goalie Carter Heise kept the Tide rolling and Concord will return to the Division I boys’ hockey championship after beating the Hanover Bears, 3-1, at JFK Coliseum on Wednesday afternoon. 

By DAN ATTORRI

Last year the Bulldogs were upset in the quarterfinals of the Division III hockey playoffs, but it’s a loss that’s served them well. This year, with last year’s early tournament exit still fresh in their minds, it was Bulldogs turn to do the upsetting.

By DAVID BROOKS

Weare voters rejected the operating budgets for both the town and the school district Tuesday and turned a thumbs down on a number of spending proposals.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally said, incorrectly, that the town warrant article to rescind SB2 passed.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

They trickled into Town Hall, chatted with neighbors and greeted friends as they took their seats for the annual town meeting. Within an hour, Salisbury had approved its budget for the coming year and passed all seventeen warrant articles, each of which received unanimous support by voice vote with little discussion – except for the the final article concerning the state’s Education Freedom Account program.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Lorrie Carey is used to close races.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Walking through Dunbarton Town Hall, which has areas dating back to the 1860s, reveals floors that creak beneath each step.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The Concord girls’ hockey team returned to the final four for the first time since 2020 when they beat Hanover, for the first time in program history, in the semifinal. This time around, in their home arena, the Tide faced a very tough Hanover team (15-4) that started hot and finished strong to win, 11-2, on Tuesday night.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Bishop Brady-Trinity-Bow’s season was a huge success in many ways during the first year of the co-op’s current iteration. But it came to an end in Tuesday night’s semifinal against top-seeded Oyster River-Portsmouth who outpaced the Brinity Falcons (14-6) and scored in bunches to win, 5-1, booking a return trip to Saturday’s championship game.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

At Town Meeting on Wednesday, Bow voters will be asked to decide whether the town should invest money to protect undeveloped private land.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

More than a year after the Concord City Council put off a vote on the Beaver Meadow clubhouse to develop more options, city proposals and flaring tensions have boxed the debate back into a starkly similar binary: all or nothing.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

With 80 miles of trails winding through the city, Concord is a great place to go for a walk in the woods and reconnect with the natural environment.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Four days after voters approved a $2 million reduction to the Merrimack Valley School District’s budget for next year, board members clashed with their superintendent over who would have the final say over cuts.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

An attempt by Democrats to reaffirm access to abortion in New Hampshire seemed to fall flat with the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Several more local law enforcement agencies in New Hampshire have started collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to perform immigration checks across the state.