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By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
New Hampshire Fish and Game gets only a tiny sliver of its revenue from the state general fund. But as its responsibilities and costs grow, legislators are being told that needs to change for the department to survive.“I don’t know how much longer...
By ETHAN DEWITT
The New Hampshire Lottery Commission brought in record revenue the past fiscal year — money that will help fuel the state’s Education Trust Fund.In state fiscal year 2024, which ran from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024, New Hampshire took in a total...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
Some seafood purchased at a Portsmouth seafood market in May 2022 met an unusual fate.Instead of getting fried up, three filets each of haddock, salmon, tuna, and cod, three lobster tails, and some shrimp and scallops were transported by researchers...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
The Department of Health and Human Services is hoping to use nearly $12.4 million in federal money to address security shortcomings revealed during November’s fatal shooting of a state hospital guard and to accommodate the addition of a new forensic...
By ETHAN DEWITT
New Hampshire’s population has grown since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic — but not from people being born here. In-migration accounted for all of the state’s population growth, according to an analysis by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy...
By ETHAN DEWITT
A federal judge is allowing Parker Tirrell, a transgender teenager, to continue playing high school soccer for two weeks as she weighs whether to take broader action against a new state law that bars transgender girls from playing girls’ sports. After...
By ETHAN DEWITT
As the State House voting chambers lie empty this summer, Gov. Chris Sununu’s desk has been flooded. Hundreds of bills passed by lawmakers in late spring have circulated from the Office of Legislative Services to the Secretary of State’s Office to the...
By ETHAN DEWITT
A day after a state law preventing transgender girls from playing girls’ sports took effect, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the law from being used against a New Hampshire teenager.Judge Landya McCafferty of the U.S. District Court of New...
By ETHAN DeWITT
For years, teacher pay in New Hampshire has remained low, with new teachers facing average salaries of $41,590. And for years, Democrats, teachers unions, and other advocates have urged increased state investment in public schools to direct money to...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a Republican-led bill this month that would have brought greater transparency to use of public comments in rulemaking and, according to one of its sponsors, formalized existing processes into law. Sununu wrote in his veto...
By ETHAN DEWITT
Gov. Chris Sununu endorsed former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte to be the next New Hampshire governor Wednesday, choosing her over former Senate President Chuck Morse as his preferred successor. In a post on the social media website X, Sununu, a Republican...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
The state’s Commission on Aging is launching two studies it hopes will make New Hampshire a better place for older residents, people with disabilities, and overlooked populations to live. One study will look at public and community transportation...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
Come Jan. 1, the state’s nearly 1,340 physician assistants, the provider many patients see, will no longer have to have a signed “collaboration agreement” with a physician for their entire career. The sponsors of House Bill 1222, which Gov. Chris...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
Gov. Chris Sununu signed a bill Friday that bans certain products with intentionally added PFAS from sale in the state starting in 2027 and creates strict liability for PFAS polluters.He vetoed another measure that would have created liability for...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN and ETHAN DEWITT
New Hampshire has gone to Democrats in seven of the last eight presidential elections, including all five since 2004. But with its independent nature, and a tumultuous race, the state is no guarantee. In 2016, Hillary Clinton took the state over...
By ETHAN DEWITT
Months after a federal court held that a 2021 state law regulating how teachers address race, gender, and other topics was unconstitutional, New Hampshire’s Attorney General’s Office has filed an appeal.In a filing to the First Circuit Court of...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has added Grafton County to a major disaster declaration made earlier this month over an April nor’easter in New Hampshire, the governor announced Tuesday.It was added after additional preliminary damage...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
New Hampshire lawmakers got the message last session. The state’s dire shortage of affordable child care options had reached crisis levels during the pandemic as providers lost staff to higher paying and less stressful jobs at retail stores and fast...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
Litter in and around the landfill. Waste outside of the permitted area. Releases of liquid pollution. Failure to file mandatory reports.These are some of the issues found at four of the state’s active landfills, documented by letters of deficiency...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
The state is a step closer to returning parents’ Social Security payments to kids when they leave foster care, with Gov. Chris Sununu’s signature on House Bill 1598. Though, it will take more legislation before kids see the money.Dawson Hayes, who...
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