Every three years international bodies update suggested building codes to incorporate new technologies, new techniques and processes. States then have the option of adopting those codes, which would have to be followed by towns and cities. New Hampshire last adopted...

Another day, another scam over the phone that pretends to come from a legitimate company – but this one is particularly bad because it’s not just trying to steal money, but to get access into your house. That’s the word from the Sanbornton Police Department. They...

New Hampshire has been trying for years to make people get rid of old wood stoves that contribute a disproportionate amount to air pollution, but a bill that would have forced the issue, requiring pre-1986 stoves to be destroyed when the house is sold, seems to have...

A proposal to let New Hampshire adopt ranked-choice voting for the next presidential primary has been shelved for the time being. The Election Law Committee of the state House of Representatives unanimously retained the bill, HB 782, on Wednesday. This means it can be...

We've given up trying to bring the Atlantic salmon back to New Hampshire - decades-long programs on the Connecticut and Merrimack rivers were abandoned a few years ago because they weren't accomplishing diddly-squat - but they're still trying hard in Maine. The U.S....

The first-ever inventory of community-owned forests in New Hampshire that was released last week included an interesting number: $146 million. This was the “economic value” researchers put on the 180,439 acres divided up among 1,691 parcels, each 10 acres or larger,...