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By DAVID BROOKS

One of the longest-running transportation debates in New Hampshire, whether to bring passenger rail back up the Merrimack River Valley, has been rejuvenated by potential funding from the new federal infrastructure bill.A public information hearing has...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Former Concord High School teacher Joshua Harwood will be incarcerated for more than three years for soliciting sexual acts from a former student, a judge decided Tuesday.Harwood, 38, who taught business classes at Concord High School for several...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

As schools across the country are seeing an increase in behavior problems associated with social media “challenges” that encourage theft, vandalism and sometimes even violence, New Hampshire educators are expressing concern over the negative impact of...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

Plans to address traffic jams on exit ramps at the intersection of Exit 2 of Interstate 89 and Clinton Street in Concord are advancing, with another public meeting planned for next week. The New Hampshire Department of Transportation ramp improvement...

By BENJAMIN DOMAINGUE

The large signs outside of the construction site on Route 13 in Bow have varied in size and message depending on the day and number of subcontractors working on the new single-family home.It started with a red white and blue banner hanging from a...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Members of the Bow football team, wearing their home jerseys, quietly placed American flags around the field Friday night to honor their teammate Nick Ouellette and his younger brother Gavin, who both died in a car crash earlier that morning. A large...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

Joy Cadarette and Sharon Beauchesne are old friends, opening a store in an old building where they will sell old things. But the idea of starting a new antique shop in Concord together is newly hatched, when just three weeks ago they discovered that...

By BENJAMIN DOMAINGUE

Mountain lions remain an enigmatic animal for residents of New Hampshire, with New Hampshire Fish and Game reporting three to five sightings per week.“Of those three to five reports, one or two come with photos,” according to Patrick Tate, a wildlife...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

The decaying Department of Transportation complex sandwiched between Loudon Road and the Concord Coach bus terminal has sat vacant for years, greeting highway drivers with glimpses of low-lying buildings with broken windows, peeling paint and creeping...

By DAVID BROOKS

Long before “River Dave” there was The Taylor Pond Hermit.Like David Lidstone, who lived alone in a cabin in the Canterbury woods for 27 years but was known to many people in the area, Perley Swett lived alone in a cabin in the town of Stoddard but...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Six state troopers were legally justified in firing 40 shots at a Claremont man, hitting him nine times, because they were “concerned about their safety” and the safety of residents in the surrounding neighborhood, according to a report from the...

By DAVID BROOKS

New data from the 2020 census shows that the section of Concord that includes the area known as The Heights is one of the state’s most racially diverse neighborhoods. Except for Hanover/Lebanon, it is the only area north of Manchester with the...

By CASSIDY JENSEN

There is finally something to see at the location of the incoming Market Basket in Penacook. Construction has begun on the buildings off of Exit 17 of 1-93 in Concord that will house a long-awaited supermarket and a NH Liquor and Wine outlet. The...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As cars speed around Turn 4 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend, fans will be able to stand just a few feet from the Loudon track while drinking a beer and playing lawn games on green turf.The track’s new bar and viewing area called Rock...

By DAVID BROOKS

Clough State Park, off-road trails in the Hopkinton-Everett System and the beach at Elm Brook Park have been temporarily closed by rising waters which are being held back by the Hopkinton and Everett dams to prevent downstream flooding.A week of heavy...

By DAVID BROOKS

A half-century after leaving Concord for Bow, the Grappone name will be returning to a city auto dealership, even as the entire car industry faces upheaval due to electric vehicles and direct sales.“When you are 97 years into a family business you...

By DAVID BROOKS

No, you’re not imagining it: Chipmunks really are everywhere.“We have no formal monitoring of chipmunks,” said Matt Tarr, a wildlife biologist with UNH Extension, “But my observation and what I’m hearing from folks all over New Hampshire is: There’s a...

By RAY DUCKLER

She bought the dog harness two years ago, unsure if she’d ever use it.But Jeannine Robbins of Thornton knew that it was a good idea, that someday she might need one for her golden retriever, Appa. She never figured, however, that the harness would be...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of Concord’s largest commercial properties, 181 acres around two office buildings once occupied by Lincoln Financial, has been sold to Brady Sullivan Properties.The site, off northern Rumford Street, was sold for a total of $3.4 million, according...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

A Concord family is accusing a private boarding school in Massachusetts of failing to protect their daughter, who they say was taken across state lines and sexually assaulted by former summer program director Howie Leung in 2015 and 2016.A lawsuit...