Both the Republican and Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire have competitions now that state Sen. Dan Innis and progressive organizer Karishma Manzur have announced campaigns. Manzur, an Exeter biomedical scientist, announced her candidacy in the Democratic primary Wednesday. As a researcher, Manzur studied Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy. Politically, she’s perhaps most known […]

As President Donald Trump wages a pressure campaign on Republican-led states to redistrict ahead of schedule and gerrymander their congressional district maps, New Hampshire — which had a contentious redistricting cycle in 2022 — has drawn some attention. So far, though, political support for state redistricting appears slim. On Wednesday, Texas Republicans released the first […]

Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator for Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during the first Trump administration, announced Wednesday he is running for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Brown, a Republican, joins an early race to replace Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who announced in March that she would retire at the end of […]

A military veteran with a previous unsuccessful bid for Congress, the daughter of a household name in New Hampshire politics, and a Harvard University professor — all Democrats — are the first to jump in the 2026 race for New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District. Maura Sullivan, a Marine Corps veteran and former Obama administration staffer, […]

OSSIPEE — Carolann Bell of Conway says without the Carroll County Drug Court she wouldn’t be alive today.

MANCHESTER — Accepted political wisdom says that whichever party holds the White House can expect losses in Congress during mid-term elections…