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By SUSAN GEIER

Nonprofits play a unique role in New Hampshire by supporting its residents every day. They are not simply organizations that do good works — nonprofits are a critical part of the state’s infrastructure in providing direct, essential services, the backbone of the safety net. 

By ELAINA BEDIO

Most people have at least a nominal idea of the services Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough County provides — delivering meals to people who, for one reason or another, cannot easily get to a grocery store. But that is merely the tip of the iceberg of...

By KELLY BURCH

The New Hampshire House voted Thursday to expand the state’s Educational Freedom Accounts program by raising the income eligibility, despite critics' concerns that the number of low-income students participating in the program has dropped by...

By STEVEN PORTER

Immediately after nominees were chosen in last month’s Republican and Democratic primaries, New Hampshire voters overwhelmingly said they had already decided which candidate they plan to pick in the general election for governor.  Republican incumbent...

By KELLY BURCH 

Tawna Fisher, of Unity, never imagined that she’d have a four-year-old son when she was 54.Her own biological children are well into their 30s and have their own kids. But when her niece got pregnant, Fisher knew she would struggle to take care of a...

By KELLY BURCH

Alisa Druzba works in rural health, but over the past few years she noticed another issue permeating her work.“Transportation comes up in every conversation,” said Druzba, director of the New Hampshire Office of Rural Health & Primary Care, part of...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of violence, including domestic assault.In hours of testimony Wednesday, Britany Barron said her husband, Armando Barron, brutally assaulted her, ordered her to kill a coworker, Jonathan Amerault, and...

By MEG MCINTYRE

In December, Nashua teacher Walt Freeman stepped up to the mic to speak to the city’s Board of Education.“If I were to write a futuristic dystopian novel, it would begin with a deadly pandemic as a backdrop. The schools in my dystopian novel would be...

By NOUR HABIB 

As mask mandates end at schools, people return to the office and infections and hospitalization numbers drop, many people have a renewed sense of optimism that the worst of the pandemic is behind us.But while COVID-19 restrictions ease and the country...

By JOHNNY BASSETT 

Daily case numbers and hospitalizations for New Hampshire continued their rapid decline last week and have now fallen far below the peak of the first wave in Dec. 2020.According to data from the state’s official COVID response dashboard, New Hampshire...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

New COVID cases and hospitalizations in New Hampshire dropped again over the past week, as the winter surge continues to recede.The state averaged 425 new cases per day in the week ending Tuesday, compared to 745 a week earlier — a 43 percent drop —...

By JOHNNY BASSETT

Daily case numbers and hospitalizations for New Hampshire continued their rapid decline last week, but doctors warn that the trend could rapidly change direction again in the future.According to data from the state’s official COVID response dashboard,...

By JOHNNY BASSETT

Daily case numbers and hospitalizations for New Hampshire have rapidly decreased over the last two weeks, indicating that the winter surge may soon be ending.According to data from the state’s official COVID response dashboard, New Hampshire averaged...

By JOHNNY BASSETT 

COVID-19 indicators for New Hampshire have stayed near all-time highs for the past week, including daily case counts, though hospitalizations and deaths remain slightly lower than expected.According to data from the state’s official COVID response...

By JOHN M. BASSETT

COVID-19 indicators for New Hampshire have remained high over the past week, far above the highest levels seen during the first wave at the end of 2020."The trend is discouraging," said Martha Wassell, Director of Infection Prevention at Dover's...

By RICK GREEN

Major changes would be required in the way New Hampshire conducts elections under bills proposed by Republican state legislators, many of whom have questioned the integrity of the last statewide vote.Perhaps the biggest change would come under House...

By ROSEMARY FORD

Nearly two months before she was shot in the head after leaving her job at a sail manufacturer in Salem, Massachusetts, a 33-year-old Hampton woman filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, a Wilton man who police say shot her and then...

By BRAD SPIEGEL

For the past couple of years, homeschooling in the United States has taken off. Not coincidentally it mirrors the start of the pandemic when in-person schooling was in flux and many parents felt they had little choice but to take over their children’s...

By JENNY WHIDDEN

More than half of the state’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion abruptly resigned Tuesday, citing concerns that the state budget signed into law by Governor Chris Sununu silences important conversations about race.It is now illegal in New Hampshire...

By JORDYN HAIME

Only a few months away from graduating from Spaulding High School, Dillon Guyer made a seemingly small decision that would change his life. He remembers his 17-year-old self as a typical rambunctious teenager who skipped a few classes a day to smoke...

By BRAD SPIEGEL

It would be difficult to say that there has been a lot of good to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the field of nursing, however, there may be a positive: the pandemic has focused attention on nursing careers, and schools around the Granite State...