Kevin Landrigan

After Tuesday's primaries, political junkies and hopelessly hooked reporters like yours truly will have fewer candidates to chase once the voters do their duty and winnow the field for the final election on Nov. 3.

Four-term U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., is on the precipice of becoming the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, but in his only televised debate, he faced all he could handle from liberal Exeter biochemist and first-time candidate Karishma Manzur of Exeter.

All the TV ads, lawn signs, and mailers dumped into the trash and yes, mind-numbing hours of debates get pushed aside as New Hampshire primary voters head to the polls Tuesday.

The most watched race on the 2026 primary ballot — the fierce fight for the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District — was too close to call at press time though Stefany Shaheen of Portsmouth held onto a tenuous lead.

New Hampshire primary voters have served up what should be the closest U.S. Senate election here in a decade by nominating former Sen. John E. Sununu, a Rye Republican, to face off against four-term, Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas of Manchester.

The most watched race on the 2026 primary ballot — the fierce fight for the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District — was a cliffhanger with Portsmouth Democrat Stefany Shaheen holding on to earn a slim victory.

Top-of-the-ballot, New Hampshire Democratic nominees came out with fists flying at their Republican rivals during a feisty post-primary breakfast Wednesday morning.

Portsmouth Democrat Stefany Shaheen kept alive the prospect of carrying on her mother's legacy in elective politics with a hard-fought win in an expensive - sometimes bitter - Democratic primary in the First Congressional District.

A quarter century later, Jim Demers of Concord still gets emotional when he thinks about his 9/11 experience.

Jarred Martineau, a school bus driver for the Manchester School of Technology (MST), said the number of scofflaw drivers who ignore and illegally cut his vehicle off has grown since he first started driving back in 2013.