David Brooks - Concord Monitor

As of Oct. 1, insurance carriers in New Hampshire must notify Medicare Advantage customers if they will see a change in their coverage, including whether they’re going to stop offering the service altogether.

As drought continues in New Hampshire, lakes and streams are low, and wells are having issues. “There are places on the Connecticut River you can walk across. I haven’t seen that in years,” commented John Swain, president of Capital Well of Dunbarton.

Although hunting is much less common than it used to be — the number of licensed hunters in the state has fallen by about half since its peak in the late 1980s — the pastime is still a big part of life here.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of New Hampshire individuals and businesses who would be affected by the logging operation in the White Mountain National Forest.

The owner of the Woodstock Soapstone Co. in West Lebanon, NH, says the increase in the cost of their imported raw materials from tariffs is an order of magnitude greater than anything in their business plan.

New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed SB245, which prohibits surprise billing by ambulances, sometimes called balanced billing, and boosts insurance companies’ standard reimbursement for ambulance trips to 325% of the federal Medicare rate .

By contrast, passenger numbers at the airport in Burlington, Vermont, were up 3% last year compared to 2023. In Portland, Maine, they were up 9%, and at Logan Airport, they rose almost 7%.

New Hampshire State Parks announced that the Cannon Mountain Tramway in Franconia, NH, will retire and remain closed for two years while crews replace the tram.

Concord is leasing 17 acres to Kearsarge Power, which will place roughly 11,000 panels there. The site has three-phase power, necessary for such an array, but Unitil needs to move one line and do some upgrades to a substation.

New Hampshire joins many states and developed countries that have seen the birth rate – the number of children the average woman will have in her lifetime – decline over the past two decades as social patterns have changed.