It was an idea decades in the making — and decades in the unraveling. In 1993, New Hampshire Executive Councilor Ray Burton unveiled the “Conway bypass”: a planned extension of Route 16 to circumvent Conway and North Conway and reduce traffic. The plan targeted congestion concerns dating back to the 1950s, according to the Conway […]
Nearly two years into her tenure, Gov. Kelly Ayotte has become comfortable with a veto pen. The Republican governor vetoed nine bills Thursday, many of them lightning-rod political issues and priorities of lawmakers in her party. Months before the November general election, she took a red pen to conservative proposals to increase book removals in […]
LOUDON — After more than 30 years, Lakes Region Heating & Air Conditioning celebrated a new chapter with the grand opening and ribbon cutt…
In 2002, Ann Davis bought 380 acres between Wilmot, and Springfield, a woodlot where, four years earlier, an ice storm had passed through and …
On the evening of the last Sunday in April, Amanda Grappone Osmer opened an email from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).The New Hampshire lawmaker w…
MADISON — The Madison Boulder, which is the largest glacial erratic in the world, was spray-painted with graffiti by a vandal sometime between…
GOFFSTOWN — The Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications has extended the deadline for The Brodsky Prize.
Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill recounted the stories she’d heard while touring New Hampshire’s men’s prison on Wednesday: rats in the kit…
New Hampshire is the only state in New England with local police departments participating in the task force model of the 287(g) program, whic…
A report released Monday by a national transportation research group concluded that keeping New Hampshire’s roads and bridges safe would require more work than the state has funds to cover. One proposed remedy out of the New Hampshire Senate, in the form of a toll fare increase on the 89-mile New Hampshire turnpike system, was […]