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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

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through New Hampshire will get a little easier this year as the U.S. Forest Service faces a question that has come up several times before: Whether to replace old structures in regions designated as pure wilderness.

By DAVID BROOKS

In today’s least surprising news, the drought is officially over in Concord.

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to budgeting, you can’t get much worse than bottled water.

By DAVID BROOKS

Some people flying back to New Hampshire have faced problems with TSA’s identification system not recognizing the state’s redesigned driver’s licenses — a flaw that TSA representatives say is the result of an incomplete software update, according to a press release from the New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles.

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.