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By RACHEL WACHMAN

When Carrie Becker received abnormal results back from her yearly mammogram, she underwent a series of tests. Three biopsies, three ultrasounds, three mammograms and one MRI later, she learned what the tests had confirmed: she had breast cancer.While...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Nine Republican state representatives recently filed a bill that would make abortion illegal after 15 weeks. It includes exceptions for medical emergencies and fetal abnormalities that are “incompatible with life.”

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The first time he ran for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, former ambassador and former Sen. Scott Brown jumped in late.Brown launched his Republican Senate campaign in April 2014, just a few months after formally changing his residency to New...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Pete Buttigieg made an appearance on New Hampshire talk radio on Friday, sparking speculation that the Department of Transportation Secretary in President Joe Biden’s administration may be mulling another White House run in 2028.Buttigieg, a 2020...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Hundreds of students were rejected from receiving Education Freedom Accounts in 2024 because their families earned more than the program’s income limits.If Republicans have their way in the State House this session, any family, regardless of how much...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

It’s no secret that New Hampshire’s headed toward leaner times. Outgoing Gov. Chris Sununu hoped to get ahead of the revenue problem by asking state agencies to reduce their budgets requests.Still, this year’s proposals totaled nearly $17 billion —...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

New Hampshire’s consumer advocate, which represents residents and utility customers in government decisions, could be stripped of its funding and independence in the name of efficiency.Ross Berry, a state representative from Weare, filed a draft...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

The budget ball is in Kelly Ayotte’s court.After 50 state agencies presented their budget proposals for the 2026-27 cycle, the governor-elect has about three months to piece together her draft spending plan and present it to the state Legislature.Her...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Republican Sen. Ruth Ward argued that Education Freedom Accounts — and the outcomes for students who use them — are measured well enough already. Democrats disagreed, saying they want more oversight on what those roughly 5,300 students are...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Votes are still being counted in some states across the country, and some races have yet to be called in the 2024 election.But in New Hampshire, the campaign spotlight will quickly shift to the state’s 2026 Senate election, which will likely be one of...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — Democrats maintained their dominance in New Hampshire’s congressional delegation Tuesday, with U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas reelected in the 1st District and newcomer Maggie Goodlander winning the open 2nd District seat.Goodlander, a former White...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

With less than one week until Election Day, a new public opinion survey in swing state New Hampshire indicates Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris with a single-digit lead over former President Donald Trump, the Republican...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

With two weeks until Election Day, it appears to remain a margin-of-error race between former Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte and former Democratic Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig in the contest to succeed GOP Gov. Chris Sununu in the corner...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

In 2021, Concord City Council voted to change a city holiday, renaming the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This year, a new state law compels New Hampshire’s towns and cities to recognize it by its traditional name, Columbus Day.A...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

After 50 years serving in New Hampshire’s government as a state representative, executive councilor, and state senator, Thursday was Sen. Lou D’Allesandro’s final day on the Senate floor in an active capacity, as senators voted on a series of vetoes...

In endorsing Hillary Clinton for president in this space in 2016, we asked which America voters wanted to live in: Donald Trump’s — full of sound and fury, anxiety ridden and resentment driven, conspiracy-minded and fact averse; or Clinton’s — a world...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — In the only contested primary in Sullivan County for the state legislature, five Republicans will be on the Sept. 10 ballot for three seats in District 6, representing Claremont and Croydon.Luke Diamond, Wayne Hemingway, Tom Luther, Robert...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Parker Tirrell went down after a hard foul in front of goal in the second half of a girls soccer scrimmage on Tuesday night, and she drew a much-needed penalty for her team while down 1-0.Tirrell played for Plymouth Regional High School in a friendly...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster is optimistic that having her good friend and former U.S. House colleague Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on the Democratic Party’s national ticket will help her party carry New Hampshire in the presidential election.“I’m very...

By NICOLA SMITH

MONTPELIER — At the end of the legislative session last week in the Vermont Statehouse, Dick McCormack listened, eyes closed, as a resolution commemorating both his retirement and “profound seriousness of purpose” was read into the record. Standing by...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Democratic U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster will not run for reelection this year, she announced Wednesday morning, ending a 12-year congressional career and creating a rare open race for New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District.Kuster, a Democrat from...