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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The resource list at the bottom of this story has been updated with a 24-hour plan for warm weather shelter over the weekend. 

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Kelle Jo Easler has worn a lot of different hats.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Brad Gauthier paints a simple picture. After a day on his mountain bike at the Veterans Memorial Recreational Area, it’d be nice to drink a Kettle Head IPA beer in the lodge.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Inside the old Holiday Inn in downtown Concord, hundreds of recently empty hotel rooms are filled with a laundry list of furniture – bed frames, mattresses, desks, chairs, lamps, sheets, pillows.Developer Steve Duprey, who is renovating the hotel into...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Kelly Ayotte admits that in today’s market, it would have been unlikely for her and her husband to have afforded their first home.They were in their 30s, newly married and buying a condominium. From there, they purchased their first house. Nowadays,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

While the need to add housing across the state dominated Gov. Chis Sununu’s speeches during his four terms in office, little was said about those who lost their homes during his administration.During the pandemic, 240 homeowners had their properties...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Sanjeev Manohar had never knocked on a door asking people to vote for him before. So as he hit one after the other in Nashua during his campaign for state representative, he had a policy pitch prepared. He’d champion women’s rights if he was elected...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

On a February afternoon, Rebecca Carlman stood in a parking lot off of Storrs Street and passed out blankets from the trunk of her car to people experiencing homelessness. She’d been there herself a few years prior and decided to give donations to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Marilyn Lara had been there before.She was homeless when she moved into her manufactured house in Boscawen in 2011. Earlier this year she feared she’d be back out on the street again.She’d fallen behind on her tax bill and at the end of March and the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Gov. Chris Sununu got his final wish in the corner office after the Executive Council agreed to allow Dartmouth Health to take over operations at Hampstead Hospital.Dartmouth Health will now lease Hampstead Hospital – New Hampshire’s only children’s...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

New Hampshire housing prices continue to remain at an all-time high as median sales in November sat at $500,000 – an 11 percent increase from this time last year.Perspective home buyers won’t be surprised that this was the most expensive November to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jim Duckworth remembers lining up with over 600 people who were vying for just over a dozen positions at the Concord Fire Department. Today, if the department gets seven to 10 applicants for an open position, that’s a good day.Nearly 25 years later,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Developer Steve Duprey wants the city to take ownership of a piece of land at the former Lincoln Financial campus and help turn it into badly needed new housing in Concord.A technicality over taxes is tying that up. To be clear, Duprey has control...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Elena Alois jokes that the Capital Region Food Program is her family business.Her grandfather started the organization – which aims to provide food to people in need in the Concord area – over 50 years ago. She’s the third generation at the helm,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Michele Horne doesn’t want to have the same conversation next year.The past two years, Concord police have asked for retention bonuses for current sworn officers, pitched as a stopgap measure necessary to keep an already slim staff.To Horne, the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The legs of the black Baphomet statue outside the State House still stood, but its head was on the ground, robes crumpled and the panel of Seven Fundamental Tenets shattered.On Tuesday morning, Rep. Ellen Read, a Newmarket Democrat, was picking up the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the political library at Saint Anselm’s Institute of Politics, James Thibault sat down to do his homework in a gray suit. Pins of both the New Hampshire flag and United States flag were fastened to the lapel, and his red, white and blue tie was...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chris Sununu has one ask before he leaves the corner office: to see Dartmouth Health take over operations at Hampstead Hospital.He knows it’s a unique proposition – the private hospital would lease the facility from the state, gaining full control...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Ellen Read and Joe Alexander don’t agree on much. In the primary, mailers attacked Read, a Newmarket Democrat, as the “AOC of N.H.” In his three terms in the House, Alexander, a Goffstown Republican, has quickly risen through party ranks. Both voted...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Michelle Laverdure wants a plan for tomorrow.She’s tired of living out of her van, driving spot to spot so her vehicle isn’t towed or vandalized. She’s exhausted by watching her friends relocate their tent: one encampment sweep means they’re herded to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Shamir Darjee didn’t know anything about a mortgage or real estate listing six months ago. Most 20-year-olds don’t.He did know that he’d like his own bedroom. For the last ten years, he slept in the living room alongside his younger brother in a...