NH GIVES: If you don’t support your local news outlet, it will go away

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Across New Hampshire, local journalists are doing vital work: covering town budgets, investigating the housing crisis, following school board decisions, and highlighting the people and programs that are quietly strengthening our communities. These are the stories that don’t always make national headlines—but they’re the ones that shape our lives the most.

Seasonal shelters serving Upper Valley continue to be full

Sunday, March 23, 2025

On average, usually two or three community members seeking shelter are placed in motels per night because there isn’t enough space in the shelter, Williams said. The Haven pays for Vermonters to stay in motels, while Lebanon pays for New Hampshire residents. In 2024, Lebanon spent about $150,000 on hotel rooms for unhoused residents.

Police seek man who robbed Granite State Credit Union on Elm Street

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

On February 4, 2025, at approximately 11:30 a.m., Manchester Police responded to the Granite State Credit Union at 1415 Elm St., for a bank robbery.

Submit your questions: Local media partners join forces to hold candidate forums for NH voters

Saturday, August 10, 2024Saturday, August 10, 2024

Conversations with the candidates will likely touch on the economy, health care, education, climate change, immigration and foreign policy. New Hampshire voters are also encouraged to submit their questions for the candidates in advance.

Manchester Ink Link Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Friday, July 5, 2024Thursday, July 4, 2024

After years as a full-time journalist, Carol Robidoux in 2014 found herself laid off – for the second time, since the Great Recession of 2008 – and wondering what the future of news was going to look like. That’s when she decided to create her own news publication, and in 2014 she launched Manchester Ink Link, what she called a “community hub and news info site for the city of Manchester.”

How Melanie Plenda and Carol Robidoux came together to expand news in Nashua

Wednesday, June 12, 2024Sunday, April 7, 2024

On this episode of Granite Beat, hosts Julie Hart and Adam Drapcho talk with Melanie Plenda, executive director of the Granite State News Collaborative, and Carol Robidoux, founder and editor of Manchester Ink Link and Nashua Ink Link, New Hampshire’s newest outlet, created with the help of the collaborative.

Supply chain woes drag on

Monday, June 10, 2024Wednesday, October 27, 2021

From small items, such as packaging, to major components and computer chips, retailers have to move delivery dates from weeks to months and tell customers that some things just won’t be available.

Checks to end for half of NH unemployment recipients

Monday, January 20, 2025Sunday, May 30, 2021

The change comes next month, as Sununu opts out of federal programs that expanded unemployment benefits during the pandemic.

Granite State News Collaborative partners talk about statewide series on Race and Equity in NH

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, April 18, 2021

The Granite State News Collaborative has launched a new multi-year project exploring race and equity in New Hampshire. To dig deeper into the project and thinking behind it, we talk to several partner organizations participating in the project as well as the GSNC’s new Engagement Reporter

Funds still available for business PPP as deadline nears

Sunday, June 16, 2024Sunday, March 21, 2021

The PPP funding approved by Congress in December totaled $285 billion and was part of a $900 billion stimulus package called the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act. Businesses have until March 31 to apply for a loan from a qualified lending institution.

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