While the state certainly has plenty of options to choose from, this year, consider heading to New Hampshire's oldest Christmas tree farm: Weir Tree Farms. The Colebrook farm has been selling Christmas trees since 1945, making it 80 years old this year.
It had seemed nursing home care was spared the carnage afflicting many other areas of the two-year state budget that took effect on July 1. Despite tight revenue, New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte and state senators made it a point of rejecting House-passed Medicaid cuts. And the appropriation for nursing home care represented a modest increase from the prior state fiscal year, resulting in a heartening 2.4% increase when the budget took effect. However, as it turns out, that increase was illusory.
Show love to others in your community this season by donating food, time, or money to one of these New Hampshire food pantries.
This week, we asked readers: Did New Hampshire’s senators put people over politics, or cave too soon on the shutdown? Here’s what they had to say…
Want to try snow tubing this season? New Hampshire has one of the best places to do so, according to USA TODAY's 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards.
Ready to lean into the holiday season? From historic homes decked out for Thanksgiving to bustling craft fairs and even a cannabis conference (because New Hampshire keeps things interesting), here are a few standout events happening around the state this weekend:
New Hampshire officials have announced the six winning designs in the 2025 “I Voted” Sticker Contest, a tradition that invites young Granite Staters to help shape a small but beloved piece of the state’s election experience.
Stacker compiled a list of cities with the most expensive homes in New Hampshire using data from Zillow. Cities are ranked by the Zillow Home Values Index for all homes as of October 2025. The charts in this story were created automatically using Matplotlib.
A fire destroyed the Hurd Farm’s processing barn in Hampton early Tuesday, Nov. 18, killing 75 live turkeys and destroying several processed turkeys prepared for Thanksgiving dinners.
Directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, “The American Revolution” explore how 13 British colonies won their independence and formed a government of ideas and ideals that has influenced democratic movements around the globe and through the centuries.
