Sruthi Gopalakrishnan - Concord Monitor

All these costs are baked into Hopkinton’s $29.3 million school budget, a 4.7% increase over last year. Voters approved the budget in a ballot vote of 220 to 67 on March 14, 2026.

The annual town meeting in Bow, New Hampshire, lasted over four hours as voters requested secret ballots to decide an unusually high number of warrant articles.

The Oliverian Everlasting Burial Ground in Benton Flats is New Hampshire’s first natural burial ground, providing an alternative to conventional cemetery practices.

In March, kids in Hopkinton will exercise their civic duty and vote for their favorite four-legged candidate as "Dog of the Year."

The biggest gambling winners are the casino game room operators themselves, which took in $250 million in 2025 from horse racing and games of chance alone, with video lottery games on track to generate $75 million a year. Casino betting in New Hampshire is generating half a billion dollars a year in revenue.

Currently, New Hampshire has two parallel systems for domestic violence: criminal and civil. Survivors of abuse can file civil protective orders on their own, while the state pursues criminal charges against those accused of the crime.

New Hampshire state Rep. Charles Foote of Derry has proposed legislation that would require massage businesses to obtain a license, a move he hopes will give towns more leverage.

A federal appeals court heard from parents in Bow looking to overturn a ruling that allowed the school district to bar the parents wearing "xx" armbands in protest of a transgender athlete during a school game.

A new report from the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation found that child care costs are straining families across the state, but single mothers are hit harder.

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office stated in a report the Berlin Police Department’s response was “wholly insufficient” given the circumstances.