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By KATE DARIO

When you buy a plane ticket online, have you ever paid a few extra dollars to make up for your flight’s carbon footprint? That’s a carbon offset: a program that aims to counteract the environmental impact of a purchase.This is often done by protecting...

By JULIA FURUKAWA

A new exhibit at the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University explores the past, present and future tradition of Abenaki basket-making across the White Mountains region and into Canada.“Of Baskets and Borers” weaves the stories of...

By TODD BOOKMAN

It’s been a decade since a Democrat was elected governor in New Hampshire. In less than two months, Democratic voters will head to the polls to select a nominee who hopes to break that drought. The party’s primary ballot includes two candidates who...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

The longest heat wave recorded in parts of New Hampshire is letting up. And with the heat dissipating, so is demand on New England’s energy grid.This Tuesday, electricity demand on the grid hit its peak for the year so far at about 24,300 megawatts....

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

New Hampshire is at the tail end of a record-breaking heat wave, with communities across the state seeing their longest strings of sweltering days in recorded history.Concord saw temperatures at or above 90 degrees starting on July 6. July 16 marked...

By SADAF TOKHI

State safety officials are urging vigilance on New Hampshire’s roadways after a spike in fatal crashes. Ten people have lost their lives in nine separate incidents since last Friday.The crashes happened between July 12 and July 15. They were scattered...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

People selling homes in New Hampshire will be required to notify buyers of the possibility of water contamination from PFAS chemicals, under a new law signed this month by Gov. Chris Sununu.Those man-made chemicals have been linked to adverse health...

By JOSH ROGERS

New Hampshire Republicans this year have what’s become a rare opportunity: an open race in the state’s 2nd Congressional District. Democrat Annie Kuster has held the seat, which covers the western half of the state and the North Country, for more than...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

As state health officials monitor a cluster of measles in the Upper Valley, including at least one case in an unvaccinated New Hampshire resident, the state’s top epidemiologist says he wouldn’t be surprised if more cases emerge."Given some of the...

A New Hampshire teacher who came under scrutiny for taking an 18-year-old student to get an abortion during school hours is no longer suing the state over its response to the incident.The lawsuit alleged that the department prematurely revoked the...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

New research from the University of New Hampshire suggests treating tap water for PFAS contamination household-by-household could provide a more affordable solution than treating water systems as a whole. A paper from economist Scott Lemos, a senior...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

Disability rights groups in New Hampshire are pushing to end use of the word “special” when talking about people with disabilities.They say the term is demeaning, casts people with disabilities as “others” and suggests they don’t belong in the same...

By SADAF TOKHI

The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to ban camping on city streets and parks, no matter the circumstance.The move came in the wake of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing cities to ban people from sleeping and camping in public...

By TODD BOOKMAN

Attorneys for a white supremacist group active in New England told the New Hampshire Supreme Court late last month, that their hanging of a racist banner in Portsmouth is protected free speech, and that the government is selectively enforcing its...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

New Hampshire’s utility companies are expected to change their rates for electricity starting on August 1. Energy costs could go up for some and down for others.The state’s three investor-owned utilities – Eversource, Unitil, and Liberty – are...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

New Hampshire’s consumer advocate is calling for regulators to investigate the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative after two women who previously led the board of directors resigned Tuesday.Sharon Davis, the former chair of the co-op’s board of...

By JOSH ROGERS

When Maggie Goodlander and Colin Van Ostern took their turns behind the microphone at the Cheshire County Democrats Spaghetti Dinner in Walpole recently, there wasn’t time for subtlety. The candidates for the 2nd Congressional District Democratic...

New Hampshire Fish and Game has euthanized a mother bear, after officials say she wreaked havoc in a Bartlett, N.H., neighborhood over the weekend.The bear reportedly entered a house twice in two days and bluff charged a man taking out his trash....

By KATE DARIO

Last year, extreme temperature swings wiped out entire apple and peach crops across New Hampshire. This spring and early summer things are looking different.“There are enough apples that growers are currently having to thin their apples so more fruit...

By KATE DARIO

At the start of every growing season for the past 14 years, James Steever, who co-owns Generation Farm in Concord, works his fields, plants his seeds — and hand-delivers his organic certification application to the New Hampshire Department of...