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By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire had 11,761 births in 2024, the lowest number in modern times, as a bump in births after COVID has ended and the state has returned to the long trend of fewer babies being born here every year.

By DAVID BROOKS

Remember all the COVID-related shortages we faced five years ago? I bet you remember toilet paper; it made for the best jokes. But you may have forgotten the big hiccups that occurred in the supply of something more significant than pulp-based hygiene products: Food.

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord may finally be joining the list of places putting solar farms atop their closed landfills.

By DAVID BROOKS

The most unusual home in Hopkinton, one that over the years has been nicknamed the Marshmallow House, the Space Pod, the Fiberglass Folly and more, is changing hands.

By DAVID BROOKS

Few activities get more public support than picking up litter from the side of the road. But to mark Earth Day, I’m about to argue that we shouldn’t do it.

By DAVID BROOKS

You don’t have to tell Alan Cattabriga that the invasive spotted lanternfly is a real pain. The senior manager at Millikan Nursery in Chichester has been out in the rain looking for the nasty bugs’ egg masses on imported plants more times than he cares to remember.

More people have died in New Hampshire from the flu this season than in any other season on record, according to state health officials.

By DAVID BROOKS

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: New Hampshire’s population grew slightly last year but only because of transplants moving into the state, since more state residents are dying than are born.

By DAVID BROOKS

This winter has been a little colder than average but much less snowy in Concord, which has been fine for winter sports but done nothing to help the state’s drought.

By DAVID BROOKS

This is the time of year when property taxes are on the mind of everybody facing town meeting, and although that isn’t usually considered a geek-centric topic, it can be.

By DAVID BROOKS

By one measure, influenza is now more widespread in New Hampshire than during the huge flu spike at the end of 2022, part of the reason CDC says the state is seeing “very high” levels of all illnesses related to breathing.

By DAVID BROOKS

I don’t know about you but I’ve got more snow in my yard right now than I’ve had for at least three winters.

By DAVID BROOKS

Remember that line in “Jurassic Park” where Jeff Goldblum’s character says “Scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

By DAVID BROOKS

In the latest leg of a long-running debate, a House committee killed a bill that would have prevented public water fluoridation in New Hampshire.

By DAVID BROOKS

A bill to end a little-known group that buys childhood vaccines for the state drew a slew of opposition Wednesday from nurses and doctors who said it would not only be dangerous to health but bad for wallets.

By DAVID BROOKS

Magazines like to publish articles titled “30 under 30,” listing 30 newsworthy local folks who are under the age of 30. The state’s biggest electric utility has a different idea for that title.