The pace of future construction contracts slowed in August after two consecutive months of impressive increases.According to figures from industry information service McGraw-Hill Construction, the total value of future construction contracts in New Hampshire was $137.6 million, 5 percent lower…
Over the last several years - and despite the Great Recession and its persistent aftermath - New Hampshire businesses have remained just as persistent in forging ahead. Thirty-three of them were recently singled out by Inc. magazine as among the…
Public-sector workers in New Hampshire and the rest of New England earn less on average than private-sector employees, according to a study out of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Associate research professor Jeffrey Thompson and John Schmitt of the…
A marketing firm in Manchester is suing a multibillion-dollar corporation for messing with its Make A Mess trademark.Gigunda Group Inc., in a suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Concord, claims that Delta Faucet teamed up with eModeration…
Some analysts had predicted that gas prices might eclipse $3 this past summer. That never happened, thanks to the continued sluggish economy, and throughout the summer prices have remained in the same ballpark as last year’s prices.A gallon of regular…
The University of New Hampshire in Manchester has received a grant worth nearly $600,000 to promote interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, degree programs and professional fields.The $599,821 grant from the National Science Foundation will fund UNH…
After a string of nine straight months of increases, New Hampshire home sales and prices have fallen for the second month in a row, attributed to a lag following the expiration of the federal first-time homebuyer tax credit. According to…
Last spring’s wildly fluctuating temperatures have seriously affected the harvest at some of the state’s apple orchards, and that has hurt New Hampshire’s nascent wine and spirits industry.According to projections by the USDA, New Hampshire’s apple harvest this year is…
At the same time the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is drawing up its case to remove Banking Commissioner Peter Hildreth over his actions – or lack of actions – in investigating the alleged Financial Resources Mortgage Inc. Ponzi scheme,…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recent announcement that it is shutting down its Climate Leaders Program is bad news for one New Hampshire company, Monadnock Paper Mills Inc. in Bennington. Monadnock was the only New Hampshire company taking part in…
