What's Working

The state’s labor market remains an arms race to hire talent, pushing wages higher as the region emerges from the depth of the coronavirus pandemic and reshaped views of how and when people work.

The pandemic’s upended labor market has led many workers to leave jobs for more money or better opportunities. Some have had second thoughts about their departures, creating a new term to follow the Great Resignation. Call it the Great Regret.

DURHAM - Masquerading as a high-energy game-show host, comedian Juston McKinney coaxes contestants to scramble to win cash in New Hampshire Lottery commercials filmed in the same cavernous building that’s been used to host student robots and stage SWAT training.

With mail tucked into his waistband and a container of tomato vegetable soup in his hand, Dave Carstairs maneuvered along the sidewalks and crosswalks on a weekday of light traffic and low humidity.

Landlords offering warehouse, manufacturing and flexible spaces are asking for record-high rents.

If you work for the town of Barrington, you could be in line for a $5,000 bonus — just for staying in your job.

Micaela Minassian and her boyfriend have been living with her family in the same Derry home for the past three years as they struggle to find an affordable apartment.

EPPING — For a year, Renee Duval and her boyfriend, Jeff, split time living in her brother’s basement and in a Hampton hotel after the cabin they had lived in for 11 years in Newton was torn down to make room for condos.

EPPING – Renee Duval and her boyfriend, Jeff, spent a year split living in her brother’s basement and a Hampton hotel after the cabin they lived in for 11 years in Newton was torn down to make way for condos.

New Hampshire’s tight job market got tighter than ever in June.

The Seacoast had a record number of million-dollar homes sell last month, most purchased with cash and not affected by higher mortgage rates that are pricing some buyers out of the market.

Jay Kuhrt’s vacation condo in Wolfeboro couldn’t contain his growing extended family, so the Connecticut pastor bought a 3,100-square-foot Cape on two acres in Wolfeboro five minutes from Brewster Beach.

MANCHESTER - Arthur Sullivan walked through the metal skeleton of apartments under construction where a wealth management firm had operated on the 12th floor of the once-bustling black skyscraper.

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Tyler Holmes left a Portsmouth job fair with a water bottle, a bouncy ball and the confidence he would snag a summer job.

Already open fewer hours due to staffing woes, Throwback Brewery in North Hampton sometimes needs to take tables out of service to make sure it has enough employees to tend to customers.

Buying a house is all about numbers — dramatically increasing numbers.

BEDFORD — When seven Plymouth State students showed up in a surgical operating room, there was an extra arm there to help — a mechanical one.

Fourteen pint-sized kindergarteners voted with their feet whether they preferred a beach vacation or one with snow.

CLAREMONT — Sneha Magadi was torn between becoming a Broadway actress or working in information technology.

BERLIN — A class of teenagers watched a trained dog sniff out a hidden cellphone, heard from prison employees discussing their work, and talked to a convicted murderer during a tour of the state prison.

CLAREMONT - Just off the main downtown square, beyond the book store and the travel agency, Keene’s Robin Kost spent two hours picking out $150 worth of spices, tea and coffee from around the world.

Traveling the world on a “career sabbatical,” Michelle “Shelly” Saquet Temple was stuck in New Zealand during the pandemic when a fellow attorney offered her a job.

Thank-you notes can help fix a job interview blunder.

After finishing his time in the Army, Tom Scaggs moved across the country last year to settle into a Nashua apartment with his wife and young son.

More than 11,000 New Hampshire workers must repay more than $90 million in state and federal unemployment benefits they didn’t deserve during the pandemic, according to the state.

By year’s end, New Hampshire should regain all of the private-sector jobs lost during the pandemic, according to a state economist.

Katherine Kalloch gives John Bowden a shower during her twice-weekly hospice care visits.

Sandra Almonte can dish out some mean stew chicken, but don’t ask her to explain how to attach financial information to a pandemic loan application.

The pandemic has created an economic climate where more people are acting boldly in reevaluating their work situations — whether that means changing jobs, starting a new business or retiring.

PELHAM — In a span of 12 minutes, it became clear why the state’s builders don’t construct more new homes and apartments.

In an economy reshuffled by the pandemic, people craving career advancement are finding it easier to jump to a competing company or branch out on their own.

O rganizations count on leaders who can inspire their people to achieve greatness — people who can expand a group’s reach or a company’s bottom line while improving their communities.

Buying a house in New Hampshire in 2021 required patience and persistence — and a lot more cash.

Minority students attending Manchester schools are more likely to live in a poorer area and perform worse on standardized tests than their White classmates.

Today, more than 2 of every 5 children in Manchester and Nashua hail from families of color, putting pressure on school districts and local leaders to confront real and perceived inequities that have marginalized many non-White students.

W ithin weeks of Joanna Kelley’s election as Portsmouth’s first Black assistant mayor, a White retail employee in a nearby town trailed her around a mall store, making her uncomfortable enough to walk out without buying anything for an upcoming trip.