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By DAVID BROOKS

They don’t look much like the dancing co-star of “Wizard of Oz,” but the clunky robots at the heart of a new program at Plymouth State University actually are scarecrows. Or used to be, before they broke down.“They had been working on and off. It’s...

By DAVID BROOKS

Two New Hampshire residents have bought Ruggles Mine with hopes to reopen it to the public.“We had other offers from people who were not going to reopen the mine … but we knew that was a major concern of the public,” said Chris DiPetta, former manager...

By NINA MOSKE

Sporting a bright orange hard hat, Lou Kimball stood above a large stone with a hammer in hand. The boulder was marked with four holes that Kimball had drilled minutes earlier. Metal feathers and wedges, tools used to split hulks of granite into m...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

If New Hampshire could solve the statewide child care pinch, improvements are expected to related problems with the state’s workforce shortage and economic growth. Simply put, it’s a domino effect of positive generational outcomes, according to Joe...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Evidence police obtained after using cell phone location data to find and arrest Logan Clegg may be used in his upcoming murder trial in the deaths of Steve and Wendy Reid, a Merrimack County Superior Court judge ruled.Clegg, 27, challenged all...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

It only took Tonya McMurray’s child a few seconds to realize something that was said in a moment of anger would become words to regret.In a heated conversation, a back-and-forth between teenagers taunting each other, McMurray’s child threatened...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

An affordable, manageable starter home in New Hampshire can come in many different shapes and sizes — a small single-family home, an accessory dwelling unit on an existing lot, a manufactured home or even a tiny house on a small tract of land.However,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Two towns will be testing ballot-counting machines at elections Tuesday, the latest step as the state decides how to replace the aging AccuVote machines.Hanover and Moultonborough, N.H., will use ballot-counting devices produced by Election Systems &...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you’ve been outside in any snow-free location lately, it doesn’t take an analysis of 14,252 ticks collected from all over New Hampshire to tell you that everybody’s least-favorite arachnid is back — in fact, it never left.But if you want...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For three decades economists have signaled that New Hampshire has a “housing mismatch” — or an Econ 101 issue where demand supersedes supply of available houses. But new numbers released by New Hampshire Housing illustrate what a vast discrepancy this...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The mix of storefronts, apartment buildings and historic homes just off Main Street is the fabric of the city of Concord’s downtown. There’s a reason there aren’t large homes with front lawns next to the Statehouse or apartment complexes in the...

By DAVID BROOKS

With a stretch of very warm weather approaching, New Hampshire is showing the surest sign that winter is over: High wildfire danger.All portions of the state south of the White Mountains that have lost their snow cover were classified as being in high...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When Eugene Mutegetsi left Kenya, he thought he’d arrive in New Hampshire and find an apartment. Once he found a place to live, he hoped his wife would be able to move to the United States as well.Instead, he last saw her eight months ago. Since...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

In the days leading up to the double homicide of retired Concord couple Steve and Wendy Reid, several calls were made to the Concord Police Department to report a suspicious male in the area of what would later be identified as the crime scene,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

SALEM, N.H. — As the crowd applauded former President Donald Trump, who gave the keynote speech Saturday at the annual GOP meeting in Salem, a former state party chairman was not in attendance.Steve Duprey is among a list of prominent New Hampshire...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Just a fraction of the state’s police officers have completed training that is considered the “gold standard” for law enforcement to better respond to mental health emergency calls.About 16% of all 2,900 sworn police officers in New Hampshire have...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Grace Kindeke wishes she wouldn’t have to watch Sen. Maggie Hassan talk about immigration policy from a video, with the senator standing in front of a steel paneled wall in Nogales, Ariz., over 2,000 miles away. She’d like to have these conversations...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

CONCORD — New Hampshire’s second-largest teacher union is suing Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut over the state’s Education Freedom Account program, saying the voucher system of using public money to fund private schools violates the state’s...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

NEW LONDON — A 78-year-old man shot and killed his domestic partner inside their New London home and then killed himself, state officials announced Wednesday.Douglas Lyon called police to the Shaker Street home at 1:38 p.m. Tuesday. When officers...

By DAVID BROOKS

The price hikes and supply crunches that have clobbered fuel supplies and raised prices throughout the world are starting to affect the one fuel we can call our own: Wood pellets.“There is quite a bit available right now but with the ongoing...