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By LIORA ENGEL

Amid an ongoing shortage of people going into the trades, Keene Community Education will offer a pre-apprenticeship program for the first time this summer.

By RICK GREEN

Gov. Kelly Ayotte has signed into law a bill that will limit product liability for firearms manufacturers like Newington, N.H.-based SigSauer, which has faced numerous lawsuits over its P320 pistol.

By RICK GREEN

A N.H. House committee has retained, or removed from consideration, a Republican-backed bill aimed at preventing transgender women or girls from participating in women’s sports in public schools or entering female locker rooms.

By RICK GREEN

Voting along partisan lines, the N.H. Senate passed and sent to the governor a Republican-backed bill Thursday that would allow organizations to restrict bathrooms, locker rooms, jails and athletic competition by biological sex.

By RICK GREEN

A Republican-backed bill the N.H. House passed last Thursday seeks to foster local cooperation with federal authorities in the enforcement of immigration law.

By SOPHIA KESHMIRI

SWANZEY — After almost a month on the run, Diego, an 8-year-old hound was reunited with his owners on Thursday.

By RICK GREEN

A five-decade-old program that uses state and federal money to provide birth control, cancer screenings, sexually transmitted disease treatment and pregnancy testing for people of low income would be eliminated in a state budget the N.H. House passed last month.

By RICK GREEN

N.H. Senate Republicans snuffed out a marijuana legalization bill Thursday despite public opinion polling showing a majority of Granite Staters favor ending penalties for adult possession of small amounts of cannabis.

By RICK GREEN

The N.H. Senate passed a bill Thursday that would require school districts to create policies prohibiting its employees from transporting minor students to non-emergency medical visits without parental consent.

By LIORA ENGEL

Last summer, around the time Cheshire Medical Center nurse Steven Finnell allegedly began taking painkillers meant for patients, officials from the Keene hospital asked state regulators to lift sanctions put in place to prevent drug diversion, regulatory documents show. The state Board of Pharmacy agreed.

By ABIGAIL HAM

Cheshire County Sheriff Eliezer Rivera plans to travel to Poland later this month to participate in an anti-genocide training for law enforcement.

By RICK GREEN

Cuts in corporate tax rates since 2015 have led to up to $1.2 billion in forgone state revenue, according to a report a nonpartisan research group released Tuesday as lawmakers considered millions of dollars in spending reductions.

By JAMES RINKER

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — An ammonia leak caused a business to evacuate and required a multi-hour response from the Vermont Hazmat team Monday morning, according to the Brattleboro Fire Department.

By RICK GREEN

A New Hampshire law requiring motorists to reduce speed and steer a wide berth around a variety of roadside emergencies would be expanded under a bill the state Senate passed Thursday.

By LIORA ENGEL

A registered nurse who worked at Cheshire Medical Center had his license suspended in January for allegedly stealing prescription opioids, including fentanyl, state regulators said. This comes about a year-and-a-half after a federal investigation found 21 gallons of fentanyl solution were lost or unaccounted for at the Keene, N.H., hospital over a two-year span.

By RICK GREEN

Convictions for simple marijuana possession would be removed from criminal records under a bill N.H. Rep. Jonah Wheeler of Peterborough says he is sponsoring to help people avoid being stigmatized for an offense that has been decriminalized.

By RICK GREEN

A man who once supervised New Hampshire’s motor vehicle inspection program is now supporting legislation to end that program.

By RICK GREEN

N.H. Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s two-year budget calls for the state’s Community College System to maintain its current tuition freeze, but these costs remain among the highest in the nation.

By RICK GREEN

There is no lack of legislation in Concord this year aimed at solving what many people regard as the state’s biggest problem, the high cost of housing.

By RICK GREEN

A state House committee voted unanimously Tuesday against a bill that would upend the primary election system in New Hampshire.

By RICK GREEN

A bill being considered in the N.H. Senate and labeled as the “Live Free and Die Free Act” would allow human remains to be composted.