Ian Lenahan - Portsmouth Herald

The Rye Selectboard is hearing a lot of complaints about its decision to cut about 90 beach parking spaces.

The Rye Select Board recently voted to update its parking ordinances, which means about 90 fewer beach parking spaces along Ocean Boulevard (Route 1A) and vicinity this summer.

Newington voters approved a tax increment financing district during a special town meeting May 30, 2026 to fund $9 millioh in infrastucture improvements related to redeveloping the former Mall and Fox Run. The developer has already announced a Costco Wholesale will anchor the project, called Seacoast Landing.

The University System of New Hampshire's board of trustees will finalize the 2026-2027 tuition rates for UNH, Keene State College, and Plymouth State University in June.

Four Rye residents have filed a lawsuit in hopes of forcing the town to reopen the Goss Farm barn to a colony of barn swallows.

The University of New Hampshire in Durham announced that its first-year student undegraduate enrollment increased 4% year over year.

The University of New Hampshire project will create the "Edge Innovation District," including research, office, and living space, near Main Street and Mast Road, just off Route 4 in Durham on the western edge of the UNH campus.

In Rye, New Hampshire, a study authorized by the Rye Conservation Commission suggests closing nearly a third of public trails in town to protect wildlife, vernal pools and habitats. The study follows a commission decision to close a community barn to barn swallows this spring, which has caused a controversy in this Seacoast town.

The Interstate 95 median barrier and guardrail work will be ongoing between North Hampton and Portsmouth through September, according to the New Hampshire Department of Transportation.

Costco, the membership-only big-box wharehouse retail club, could be part of a new development in Newington, New Hampshire, at the site of the former Fox Run Mall. Costco had a nearby location in Portsmouth, NH, in the mid-1990s. Its only other New Hampshire location is in Nashua.