A woman was injured Saturday in a fire apparently caused by the failure of her home’s battery backup system after the power went out in Sanbornton, an example of a new concern for fire departments and building inspectors. “We’re going to have growing...

A few New Hampshire school districts are getting ready to enter the electric transportation era, which means they have to figure out a pretty basic question: How to get the electricity. Once that’s solved, they will get to ponder a more interesting question: How to...

(Linkes to each patent can be found here, using the patent number.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Dec. 18. *** System, Method, and Apparatus for Electronic Patient Care DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED...

New Hampshire has launched a statewide program to monitor COVID-19 virus in sewage, a method of keeping track of the disease that is being used in many parts of the country. The new state program, announced Thursday, will collect samples from 14 sewage plants for...

Now that wild turkeys have become re-established in the Northeast, their population density is enough to spread disease. One called lymphoproliferative virus (LPDV) is showing up, says a UMaine study. They collected tissue samples from 699 Maine turkeys from 2017-20,...

It’s that time of year again, when the state’s 424 legislators show us what sort of laws they hope to pass in the upcoming session. Their proposals come in the form of LSRs, or legislative service requests. At this point there is no actual wording for the...

From UNH News Service: NH GRANIT, a mapping agency for the state based at the University of New Hampshire, is receiving close to $1 million from the N.H. Department of Business and Economic Affairs (BEA) to inventory and map statewide broadband coverage as well as...

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...