Colin Van Ostern

Both Maggie Goodlander and Colin Van Ostern are highlighting — or underplaying — certain aspects of their professional careers in their bid to win the Democratic primary.

In a Democratic primary where both candidates acknowledge that their policy disagreements are few, this central question of which counts more — local engagement or national experience — is one voters will answer on primary day.

NHPR’s Rick Ganley talks with Van Ostern about the cost of housing, immigration and more.

How best to introduce yourself to voters? It’s a question any candidate seeking public office faces. For the Democrats now running in NH's 2nd Congressional District, it's being answered in competing claims of rootedness in the state they're seeking to represent.

State lawmakers are considering a bill that would bar candidates for secretary of state and treasurer from forming political committees.The proposal is…

Bill Gardner, the longest serving secretary of state in the nation, was elected to his 22nd term today, besting challenger Colin Van Ostern by just four…

On one side, there’s an ambitious young politician pitching himself as the man to bring overdue reforms to the New Hampshire’s election system; on the…

Wednesday is the day lawmakers will pick New Hampshire’s next Secretary of State, and both candidates—42-year incumbent Bill Gardner and his challenger,…

Five former New Hampshire governors -- Republicans John Sununu, Judd Gregg, Steve Merrill Craig Benson, and Democrat John Lynch -- want lawmakers to give…

The newly elected class of New Hampshire legislators barely had time to take a victory lap in their own races earlier this month before they started…