It sounded like a heavy truck rumbling past or a load of snow sliding off the roof, depending on your point of view, but Monday’s small earthquake near Contoocook was actually a reflection of how quiet New Hampshire is, earthquake-wise. “Why don’t we have more...

The following federal patents were recently assigned to companies in New Hampshire. Bauer Hockey, Exeter, has been assigned an ornamental design patent (D750,842) developed by Jacques Durocher, St-Jerome, Canada, for an ornamental design for an “outer shell of a...

(UPDATE: After I posted this, a reader tweeted that he had seen table salt labeled as "non-GMO". Table salt! You have to admire such thinking outside the box.) AP reports that General Mills has backed down from tussling with the Green Mountain State over GMO labeling,...

The Monitor has a good story today about the concern that prisons have with drones dropping contraband into the prison yard: "On nine separate occasions over the last six months, corrections workers spotted a drone flying over the (state prison in Concord), according...

When it comes to invasive species, we care about species from somewhere else that are invading here. But it cuts both ways, as AP reports: Sweden has asked the European Union for help to stop an invasion of American lobsters, saying they could wipe out their European...

It's obvious that burning trees for heat or to create electricity is better from a greenhouse-gas point of view than burning coal and oil, because the trees can regrow and pull back the the carbon they released into the air. Or maybe it's not so obvious, reports...

The Union-Leader reports "Ice-Out on Lake Winnipesaukee is imminent, which means the winter of 2016 will likely have the earliest such call since records have been kept." This follows what is probably the latest-ever call of "Ice-In", which only happened in February....