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By DAVID BROOKS

Any business that’s been around for eight decades will have seen both highs and lows, and Concord radio station WKXL is no exception.The station began in 1948 in Eagle Square, and its highs started soon afterward as its active news teams gave the AM...

By DAVID BROOKS

Webster is preparing to join the dozens of towns and cities that buy electricity on the open market through the Community Power Coalition. An information session has been scheduled for later this month to let people know it is coming.Voters at 2023...

By DAVID BROOKS

The news out of Franconia Notch this weekend was sadly familiar: A hiker set off in the morning, eagerly climbing the Old Bridle Path up Mt. Lafayette to experience one of the world’s greatest day hikes, but never returned.This time it was Guopeng...

By DAVID BROOKS

The country’s first new mutual bank in a half-century has received final approval and will be opening the doors of its Concord office soon, with full service for the general public coming later this fall.Walden Mutual Bank, which labels itself as a...

By DAVID BROOKS

August is the month when many people who started hiking the Appalachian Trail from down in Georgia in the spring make it up to New Hampshire, only to face the reality of the White Mountains. Consider the case of Rachel Wild, 29, of North Carolina, who...

By DAVID BROOKS

The last couple of years have seen such a parade of problems that it’s hard to be surprised by them any more. Even so, here’s a problem you probably haven’t thought of: New Hampshire is facing a shortage of bassoon players.A combination of factors...

By DAVID BROOKS

Operators of hydropower dams face plenty of complications, including the wrong sort of bubbles, too many American eels and super-cooled “frazil ice,” but one thing that the owner of the Penacook Lower Falls dam doesn’t have to worry about now is...

By DAVID BROOKS

The first mutual bank to get a state charter in a century has started making loans as it gets one step closer to fully opening, although financial turmoil may complicate matters.“Market conditions have obviously changed quite a bit in the last six...

By DAVID BROOKS

The region’s biggest greenhouse grower of salad greens, Lef Farms of Loudon, has been purchased by a national firm which plans to enlarge it.New York-based Brightfarms purchased Lef (pronounced “leaf”) this summer for an undisclosed amount. The...

By DAVID BROOKS

The news that criminals used fake e-mails to fool the town of Peterborough into sending them million-dollar payments comes as no real surprise to the state’s cybersecurity chief.“We’ve heard about this multiple times over the past four years,” said...

By DAVID BROOKS

Coal, once the dominant fuel for heating buildings while driving industry in New England, has faded almost entirely from view. Julie Kinney can point to one remnant that she wishes would fade with it.“We have an ash pile right now. At some point we’ll...

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-standing effort to create a permanent home for Concord’s famous horse-drawn coaches has taken another step forward, although it’s a funny-sounding one: Concord has transferred ownership of a potential museum to itself.More specifically, the...

By DAVID BROOKS

A New Hampshire company that has disposed of radioactive material for decades is part of a joint venture that recently won a $54 million contract to decommission one of the few non-military nuclear ships ever built.“The Savannah is a very, very...

By DAVID BROOKS

When news came that a grocery store was finally going to be built in Penacook after a decade of discussion, some people celebrated. But others were puzzled.“Does Concord want to have the highest per capita grocery store concentration in New England?”...

By DAVID BROOKS

The future of the Carmelite Monastery on Pleasant Street will be decided by the five nuns who live there, now that the Vatican has decided that the facility should close.“The sisters will eventually decide on what to do with the property. There are...

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-debated expansion of Mount Sunapee Ski Area into the West Bowl, including a mile-long chairlift, new lodge and new sewage system, is front and center of the area’s first master plan since it was bought by Vail Resorts.The five-year plan,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Harbor Freight Tools will soon move into a former Toys R Us building near Steeplegate Mall this month, part of a company expansion that is taking advantage of do-it-yourself and home-improvement work during the pandemic.The announcement comes even as...

By DAVID BROOKS

The Merrimack Station power plant in Bow can stay open through at least mid-2024, as the coal-fired power plant has won another year’s funding from a New England program designed to guarantee future electricity supplies.The coal-fired plant will...

By DAVID BROOKS

Imagine if Adele was singing the National Anthem before the Super Bowl and the TV network shut off her audio, playing the sound of cheering crowds instead.You’d probably be pretty upset, even angry.Which is exactly how many people in the deaf...

By DAVID BROOKS

Here’s one way to think about the latest effort by New Hampshire Fish and Game to support pollinators: It’s the skinniest environmental program in the state.The target of the program, which just got a funding boost, are the rights of way that the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Bowing to the inevitable, Eversource has officially taken Northern Pass off the table.In a statement late Thursday, the company said that “after evaluating all potential options following last week’s decision by the New Hampshire Supreme Court on...