One of these days you’re going to be driving somewhere after a snow squall on slippery streets and you will mutter to yourself, “Doggone it, why don’t they just put down more salt?” Although you might use different words than “doggone it.” Well, I have the answer: The...

As New Hampshire’s hospitals continue to face an onslaught of patients with respiratory problems including COVID – there are no empty beds in any of the state’s pediatric ICU units – a new study shows one weird trick to increase our odds of not becoming one of those...

One of the most interesting things in New Hampshire is Corbin Park, the 25,000-acre private hunting preserve in Sullivan County that is a ticking "feral swine bomb, to use the great phrase from an Atlantic story I mentioned a while back. NHPR’s Outside/In did a great...

This is a PR release I got just before prepping the newsletter - no independent reporting. Detact Diagnostics, a Dutch-based life-sciences company that develops diagnostic tests for the health and food sector, opened its first U.S. operational laboratory in Keene, New...

From Dartmouth Health: Treatments and mitigation strategies for COVID-19—and even the existence of the virus itself—have been questioned, condemned and politicized since 2020, due to rampant misinformation. Mark McEnnis once counted himself among the millions of...

Thanks to climate change, winters are getting warmer across the country, but a new analysis of federal temperature data shows the trend is particularly strong in parts of the northeast. In fact Burlington, Vermont has seen more winter warming in the last 50 years than...

Veteran Union-Leader reporter Mark Hayward is covering the trial of Free Keene activist Ian Freeman on money-laundering charges related to bitcoin/blockchain operations. The first story is here. Tuesday was spent choosing jurors. It's not usually worthwhile to cover...

With power substations in the news because of the attack in North Carolina - it's pretty easy to stand outside the chain-link fence and shoot out important components - I checked out my 2012 visit to a big substation in Amherst, NH. Unlike many of my stories for the...

New England faces no obvious power problems this winter, according to an annual forecast from the group that runs the six-state electricity grid, although extreme conditions might produce requests for conservation. The group, ISO-New England, said Monday that it does...