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As community power prepares to enter its third full year in New Hampshire, close to half the state’s population will soon have access to a program which gives towns and cities more control over their electricity source.“We expect continued adoption in...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire’s highways didn’t get any safer in 2024 but at least they didn’t get deadlier, judging from year-end data about fatal accidents — with one sad exception.The number of drivers under the age of 21 who were killed on state roads last year...

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New Hampshire is gearing up to join a federal program testing dairy cattle for virulent strains of bird flu, which so far has been detected here only in some wild birds in early 2024.In other parts of the country, concern about Highly Pathogenic Avian...

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People coming from other countries are playing an increasingly important role in New Hampshire’s small but consistent population growth, recent Census data shows.The number of adults and children living in the Granite State grew 2.3% between the 2020...

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Five years after COVID lockdowns supercharged the idea of talking to your doctor or nurse online from home, telehealth has become such a regular part of medical care in New Hampshire that advocates hope the state will loosen laws concerning...

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Consolidated Communications, which operates the legacy telephone network in New Hampshire, has agreed to be bought for $3.1 billion by private equity firms Searchlight Capital Partners, and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI). The...

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Cutting your own Christmas tree is a snap. Unless, that is, it weighs 3,100 pounds, is as wide as a lane of traffic and nature decided to make the whole process more complicated.“The wind makes it a little trickier,” said Ryan Rambeau, Concord tree...

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 It looks like New Hampshire hunting has lost its COVID-era boost.Through Aug. 31, New Hampshire sold 31,266 hunting licenses, according to the Department of Fish and Game. That’s 14% fewer licenses than were sold during the first eight months of 2020...

By DAVID BROOKS

In a long and storied journalism career, mostly at the Concord Monitor and its sister paper the Valley News, Mark Travis occupied just about every position available in local newspapers, from freelance writer to publisher. But it wasn’t those titles...

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Tens of thousands of New Hampshire seniors will have to find new supplemental health insurance coverage next year because some companies, including Harvard-Pilgrim, Human and Ambetter, are pulling out of the Medicare Advantage business in the...

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The University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State and Keene State are making it possible for certain high-school seniors to be automatically accepted even without applying, part of a national trend known as direct admission.UNH and PSU announced Monday...

By DAVID BROOKS

A motorized wheelchair designed to clamber over rocks, roots and mud is opening up hiking trails in our biggest state park to many more people, including some who weren’t in the target audience.“We expected it would be people with mobility challenges....

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The bald eagle who had been marveled at and enjoyed by thousands of people over the past quarter century, acting as one of New Hampshire Audubon’s most popular ambassadors at the Concord facility and in school trips, has died. He was 36.The eagle,...

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After years of trying to lure JetBlue to New Hampshire, Manchester airport has finally succeeded.The nation’s biggest discount airline announced Wednesday that in January it will start year-round service to Orlando and winter seasonal service to Ft....

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White pine trees in New Hampshire have been dropping needles this spring but the state Forest Health Bureau says not to be concerned: It’s the result of last year’s rainy late spring and summer and doesn’t pose danger to the trees. For the past 15...

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The uncertainty caused by the arrival of COVID reduced births by a greater percentage in New Hampshire than any other state, according to estimates in a just-released study.The study by the Brookings Institution, based on data recently released by the...

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The body of a hiker missing for almost a month was discovered in Dry River, apparently pinned under a boulder.William Donovan, 65, of Cambridge, Mass, who was last seen April 16, was located by searchers who were directed to the search area after gear...

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Officials are looking for a Massachusetts man whose car has been parked at the Crawford Path parking lot for roughly two weeks, although they’re unsure whether he went hiking into the White Mountain National Forest.William Neal Donovan, 65, of...

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One year after it made a radical change to how it charges students by slashing both tuition and financial aid, Colby-Sawyer College’s president says the benefits seem to be outweighing the risks, indirectly helped this year by problems with the...

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Americans love flat-faced dogs: French bulldogs beat perennial favorite Labrador retrievers to be the most commonly registered purebred dog last year, according to the American Kennel Club, while pugs and pekes aren’t far behind.But popularity has its...

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An injured hiker who made an “innumerous amount of poor decisions” was rescued from Mount Washington on Saturday amid wind chill of 50 degrees below zero, after rescuers were carried up the mountain in a special Cog Railway train.According to New...