David Brooks - Concord Monitor

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.

At Millikan Nursery in Chichester, when they buy trees, shrubs and other nursery stock from places where the spotted lanternfly is established, they take the time to look for and remove the egg masses of the invasive species.

Ragged Mountain ski resort and its surrounding 1,900 acres in Danbury, NH, including more than 800 potential residential lots, are being marketed by CBRE Group, a major commercial real estate firm.

A bill before the New Hampshire Legislature would add "spuds," lifts and other devices to state law prohibiting the mooring of boats without a permit. prohibiting mooring of boats without a permit.

Several bills related to ambulances have been introduced for the upcoming legislative session.