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By JAMIE L. COSTA

Six months after falling in love with the city of Concord, a young couple who grew up in Idaho are opening a high-end, premium market featuring handmade goods next week on South Main Street.In the former location of Simply Birkenstock, Makers on Main...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The construction of an affordable residential housing development on top of a former railroad yard in Concord’s South End has been applauded for helping to ease the city’s housing crunch.“Without repurposing industrial sites like these, they become an...

By DAVID BROOKS

For the fourth time in its 50-year history, Concord’s piece of New Hampshire’s state university system is about to get a new name, part of a big change that should raise the profile of this often-overlooked institution but not alter its underlying...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. When I was growing up, my family belonged to Main Line Reform Temple, a reform Jewish congregation in the Philadelphia suburbs. I was bar mitzvahed and confirmed there. For about ten years, I regularly attended...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

For six months, making an arrest in the double murder of Steve and Wendy Reid was the top priority at the Concord Police department. Hours of interviews, repeated searches of the crime scene, reviewing surveillance video from nearby stores, and...

By DAVID BROOKS

Automation of the workplace can make life easier. Just ask Walker Fitch about the downright luxurious change it brought to his life as a dairy farmer.“I get up at 5 now,” Fitch bragged during a recent tour of his Milford farm. “It used to be 4.”He...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A Concord man is facing new federal sexual assault charges involving minors, the United States Attorney for Vermont announced on Tuesday. Joshua Pincoske, 47, a former assistant basketball coach at Colby Sawyer College, was indicted Monday by a...

 By JAMIE L. COSTA

The day before the bodies of Steve and Wendy Reid were found near a city hiking trail, Concord police came in contact with a homeless man living near the murder scene who has now been charged with the crime. Logan Clegg, who initially identified...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

It was 2 a.m. on Friday morning when Samantha Lane was struggling to find the words that she would read in court just hours later.Trying to sum up her little sister's life, the pain of her family in the aftermath her death, and the build of up of a...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Going as far back as the Richard Nixon presidency, the Republican Party has played the law and order card, arguing that they are the party that will keep Americans safe from crime and disorder. Of course, Nixon was...

By DAVID BROOKS

A trial starts Monday on whether Merrimack Station in Bow releases too much warm water into the Merrimack River in violation of its EPA permit, a case that could decide the fate of the last coal-fired power plant in New England.The lawsuit, brought by...

By TODD BOOKMAN

Catholic Medical Center has hired an outside law firm with experience in the healthcare industry to review its cardiac surgery unit, following a Boston Globe Spotlight investigation that raised concerns about a former CMC surgeon with one of the...

By JENNY WHIDDEN and KELLY BURCH

Editor’s note: This story is the first in the ‘We have always been here’ series that will examine where NH stands when it comes to acknowledgment of and support for its indigenous people, what steps other New England states have taken and what Abenaki...

By RAY DUCKLER

Mark Patterson of Weare had it all figured out.Fresh off six-years of service in the Navy, he’d then finish his business degree at what was then called New Hampshire College. He’d be a college graduate, the first member of his family to do so.He’d...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord-based Rymes Oil and Propane, which was sold to a Canadian firm in 2020, appears to be having difficulty with computer and back office systems that have left some customers frustrated and unable to contact them.“It’s not just that we can’t get...

By DAVID BROOKS

In response to the host of headwinds facing small liberal-arts colleges, Colby-Sawyer College in New London has decided to shake up one of the industry’s long-standing trends: Ever-growing tuition partly offset by ever-growing financial aid.“Higher...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Since cell phones were banned in class at Concord High School at the start of the year, 11th grader Skyler Hubbard says she has been able to focus better.After a tough stretch of remote learning when students could easily escape the gaze of their...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

By next spring, Concord officials expect to open a new splash pad at White Park where kids can tromp among familiar structures like a whale, mushrooms and tumble buckets.For the next few weeks, though, the hub of activity will come from construction...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Electricity bills are expected to go through the roof this winter. Power companies, like Eversource and Unitil, have warned users that service rates will double. State and federal governments have issued assistance programs to alleviate costs.While...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Seeing the difficulty finding primary care doctors in the Concord area, physician-owned DMC Primary Care plans to open a new facility in the city.Come Nov. 1, the primary care practice, which has been in business since 1964, will open on Hall Street...