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By DAVID BROOKS

After 41 years of encouraging New Hampshire businesses to support the arts, the NHBCA is doing something unusual for a non-profit advocacy group: shutting down even though it doesn’t have to.

By DAVID BROOKS

After years of false alarms that came and went, May 7, the true deadline for when Real IDs will become the only license accepted as identification to board a commercial airline in the U.S., even for domestic flights, and to get into many federal facilities, is arriving.

By DAVID BROOKS

Rows of empty propane tanks at Healey Park near Exit 13 in Concord have again brought attention to the problem of trash from homeless encampents in the city, a problem that volunteers say the homeless themselves would like to help solve.

By DAVID BROOKS

Getting a New Hampshire driver’s license would be practically impossible for refugees and more complicated for immigrants who are studying or working here under a proposed law that has passed the House.

By DAVID BROOKS

Work is continuing on the new forensic psychiatric hospital on Clinton Street in Concord, although you’d be hard-pressed to recognize it when driving by.

By DAVID BROOKS

The northbound high-speed toll lanes on I-93 in Hooksett will close Tuesday and the southbound lanes close Wednesday as work begins on replacing the technology that lets E-ZPass drivers get billed without slowing down.

By DAVID BROOKS

Blasting is scheduled to take place Tuesday at the Swenson Granite quarry in Concord as the Canadian firm that owns the company continues preparations for what could be a resumption of granite-cutting operations.

By DAVID BROOKS

Three dams in the Concord region that have created large recreational areas – Franklin Falls Dam, Blackwater River in Webster and Hopkinton-Everett Lakes – will be the subject of open houses in April as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers starts the process of revising its master plans.

By DAVID BROOKS

The Loudon Country Store is returning to life and the new owner says it will be the same as before, but with a bit of a south-Asian twist.

By DAVID BROOKS

Downtown Concord has been watching the construction work on what will be Arts Alley for months, but not everything is visible from the sidewalk. Not by a long shot.

By DAVID BROOKS

The thorny question of how much patients should pay for ambulance service is moving through the legislature with competing bills in the House and Senate. So far, there’s agreement on one thing: The current system of “balance billing” or “surprise billing” by insurance companies is broken. 

By DAVID BROOKS

If you’re an early riser, Saturday will give you a chance to see a partial solar eclipse just as the sun is coming up.

By DAVID BROOKS

It seems pretty clear that Wendy Weisiger the youngster wouldn’t have been too surprised if a time portal had given her a glimpse of Wendy Weisiger the adult at work.

By DAVID BROOKS

We’re heading into the final weeks of skiing season but limping into them might be a better term for much of New Hampshire, where resorts will try to stay open through the end of the month.

By DAVID BROOKS

It’s an interesting time for Ragged Mountain Resort in Danbury, which is holding its 60th birthday party this weekend after enjoying a record ski season – because it’s also for sale.

By DAVID BROOKS

You’ll soon have to slow down and go through the gates at Hooksett tolls just like the old days, because the two-high speed lanes for the Open Road Toll system will be shut for two months as it is upgraded. 

By DAVID BROOKS

Lawmakers may soon make New Hampshire the first state in the Northeast to eliminate required annual vehicle inspections, a change that would save drivers tens of millions of dollars while reducing highway funding by nearly $3 million and curtailing a program to reduce local air pollution from cars.

By DAVID BROOKS

In a season of chairlift problems for state ski areas, the non-profit Whaleback in Enfield is facing one significant enough that it is “threatening our ability to continue operations – both this season and beyond.”

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the most common debates during town meetings, as well as one of the trickiest, involves deciding what is “a need” and what is “a want” when it comes to government spending.

By DAVID BROOKS

As soon as the last chair stops running to signal the end of Pats Peak’s ski season, probably on the last Sunday of March, the construction crews will rush in to start replacing the venerable Hurricane Triple lift.