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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...

By DAVID BROOKS

Between ticks, mosquitoes and black flies, New Hampshire has no shortage of infamous biting bugs. Recently, however, it seems that deer flies have taken center stage.“They’re brutal,” said Deb Koltookian, co-owner of Outdoor Sports Center in Concord....

By DAVID BROOKS

When one of your childhood buddies grows up to become one of the most famous people of the century, you hear a certain type of question a lot.“Did we think he was special?” said John Blackford, responding to a Monitor query by looking back on his Boy...

By DAVID BROOKS

After almost a quarter century as an environmental education center alongside one of the state’s largest hydropower plants, the Amoskeag Fishways in Manchester will close next month and be reduced to a springtime observation deck for the dam’s fish...

By DAVID BROOKS

Right now the roads are icy and soon the dirt roads will be muddy – it’s that time of year. The question is whether they should also be a bit more rocky.“Sand was the standard for years and years. When I was a kid, we used to shovel it out of the back...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire has been trying for years to make people get rid of old wood stoves that contribute a disproportionate amount to air pollution, but a bill that would have forced the issue, requiring pre-1986 stoves to be destroyed when the house is...

By DAVID BROOKS

A plan to make it illegal to hunt coyotes while their pups are still young has been rejected by a House committee that balked at the idea of legislators setting hunting seasons.Cathryn Harvey, D-Spofford, chair of the House Fish and Game Committee,...

By DAVID BROOKS

New England College is officially starting to absorb the New Hampshire Institute of Art, which will give the Henniker college a campus extension in Manchester as well as more art-related courses, and expanded course options for art students.The...

By DAVID BROOKS

Almost two years after being purchased by a Quebec firm, Concord’s iconic Swenson Granite Quarry has expanded operations slightly on Rattlesnake Hill, even as it starts reconfiguring its approach to tackle one of the paradoxes of mining.“The deeper we...

By DAVID BROOKS

Another day – or, rather, night – another rescue on the “hardest trail in the White Mountains.” Five hikers were rescued late Thursday after getting stranded in Huntington Ravine on the side of Mt. Washington, without lights or gear to stay overnight...

By DAVID BROOKS

In 1979, or maybe it was 1978, Ralph Jimenez and Linda Graham got tired of lighting their off-the-grid home via candles, Coleman lanterns and kerosene lights, and they decided to take a high-tech plunge.Thirty-nine years later (or maybe 40, but...

By DAVID BROOKS

On Snow Brook Farm in Eaton, as on many New Hampshire farms, there’s a desire to take agriculture back to its natural roots. When it comes to feeding pigs, the farm’s owners have taken to using plants that aren’t even part of agriculture.The four...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the mysteries of the Ralph Pill Marketplace is its very prominent name, since the Massachusetts-based suppliers of electrical components didn’t build the tower and hasn’t existed since it sold out to another firm a decade ago.“When we converted...

By DAVID BROOKS

The horrible conditions at an alleged puppy mill of Great Danes in Wolfeboro reflect a fact that isn’t always obvious: Breeding dogs is a difficult business.“Doing it well is much harder than people probably realize,” said Stephen Crawford, the New...

By DAVID BROOKS

In a possible blow to Northern Pass, another utility giant wants to build a power line carrying Quebec electricity through New Hampshire – but this one would involve little of the right-of-way construction that has generated so much controversy for...

By DAVID BROOKS

Many proposed laws seek to move New Hampshire forward, but there’s one that wants to move us – or at least our clocks – sideways into the Atlantic time zone.The bill would shift New Hampshire away from the time zone used by New York City and...

By DAVID BROOKS

Marc Geaumont doesn’t work for a telephone company, but when it comes to utility poles, he has a confession to make. “People in my family still call them telephone poles,” the director of field operations for Eversource Energy in New Hampshire...

By DAVID BROOKS

At least one loyal customer isn’t surprised that building and landscape supply store Corriveau-Routhier has shut its doors after 70 years.“It was a great source of supplies that we needed, had been great for a long time. But over the past maybe two...

By DAVID BROOKS

Two former employees of Fred Fuller have been awarded $2.7 million and $1 million in a lawsuit that alleged the owner of the now-bankrupt oil company harassed them with “offensive, unwelcome, sexual conduct” in the office.The case had previously made...