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The pandemic may have ended, but for these NH long COVID patients, the virus’ impact continues
01-27-2025 3:17 PM

By WILLIAM SKIPWORTH

One day in February 2021, Nenia Ballard, an officer with the Canaan Police Department, was driving her police cruiser through her western New Hampshire community when she came to an intersection she’d been to many times before.

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NH housing crisis sparks bipartisan interest in efforts to override local zoning codes
02-16-2025 5:00 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

When it comes to describing some New Hampshire towns’ housing codes, Rep. Joe Alexander likes to use a colorful phrase: “snob zoning.”


New Hampshire GOP lawmakers join attacks on DEI, target state departments, governor’s office
02-09-2025 6:00 PM

By WILLIAM SKIPWORTH

As President Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington, D.C., seek to eradicate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts throughout the federal government, their state-level allies in New Hampshire are working to do the same in the Granite State.


UNH receives $3 million to develop international, community-based seafood program
02-08-2025 5:00 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

As warming seas pose difficulties for seafood globally, a $3 million gift will help the University of New Hampshire develop an international, community-based seafood production program, the university announced this week.


New Hampshire House officially axes 15-week abortion ban proposal
02-07-2025 6:00 PM

By WILLIAM SKIPWORTH

A proposal to further restrict abortion access in New Hampshire has officially died.


New Hampshire’s high ‘National Report Card’ scores hailed as good news post-pandemic
02-03-2025 10:00 AM

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire is in the top 10% of states when it comes to fourth-grade and eighth-grade reading, according to the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress report, released Wednesday. 


Right-to-work proposal reemerges in New Hampshire State House
02-01-2025 4:31 PM

By WILLIAM SKIPWORTH

John Murphy, a telecommunications worker with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, is tired of having to show up to protests every year to oppose right-to-work legislation in New Hampshire.


Lawmakers seek to double the amount that can be paid out to injured NH first responders
01-31-2025 9:50 AM

By WILLIAM SKIPWORTH

A bipartisan group of legislators wants to double the amount of money the state is allowed to pay out to New Hampshire first responders who are injured in the line of duty.


Ayotte institutes hiring freeze, says belt-tightening is necessary
01-23-2025 3:44 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Gov. Kelly Ayotte on Wednesday signed an executive order implementing a hiring freeze in state government, carving out some exceptions.


Some push for end to New Hampshire ‘winner take all’ Electoral College allocations
01-19-2025 5:01 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

In the 2000 presidential election, Democrat Al Gore lost the state of New Hampshire narrowly, by 7,211 votes. Under the state’s “winner take all” system, all four of the Granite State’s Electoral College votes went to Republican George W. Bush, a win that would prove consequential in Bush’s overall victory. 


New Hampshire’s state budget crunch has been years in the making. Now come the cuts.
01-14-2025 6:31 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

The signs that New Hampshire’s business tax revenues might be faltering first emerged in late 2023. Now, they’re unmistakable.


Supreme Court rules state went too far in applying Civil Rights Act against white supremacists
01-14-2025 5:30 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire Supreme Court held that a local white supremacist group, NSC-13, did not violate the state’s Civil Rights Act when it displayed a banner reading “KEEP NEW ENGLAND WHITE” from an overpass. 


As a new session begins, with 1,155 bills, here’s how to find, track, and testify on legislation
01-12-2025 4:30 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN and ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire’s 2025 legislative session is kicking off this month. But the flood of legislation proposed by lawmakers this year means State House staff are scrambling to get it all ready. 


State launches registry of properties enrolled in carbon credit programs
01-11-2025 5:00 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

New Hampshire now has a registry of properties in the state enrolled in carbon credit programs, through which trees are kept standing and sequestering carbon to serve as offsets to the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change.


Amid rise of cyanobacteria and other lake threats, state lawmakers seek stronger defenses
01-05-2025 3:00 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Among New Hampshire’s most treasured natural beauties are its lakes. But those water bodies face a number of mounting stressors: climate change, pollution runoff, aging dams, cyanobacteria blooms, and more.Some of those challenges will be the focus of...


Plymouth State University researchers receive grant to study snowpack data
01-04-2025 4:30 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Researchers at Plymouth State University will use a two-year, $192,000 federal grant to look at almost a century of snowpack data in the Northeast and create the first “Snow Drought Index” in the nation.The index “will look at measurements of depth...


Gender transition surgery ban, bail reform, and covered bridges: The new state laws of 2025
01-03-2025 6:30 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

The new year brings a wealth of changes to New Hampshire, from the governor’s office to the Legislature. It also includes a number of new laws. While most of the 378 laws signed by Gov. Chris Sununu in 2024 have already taken effect, many were timed...


New Hampshire has a big dam problem, so lawmakers pitch new fees to cover millions in repairs
12-24-2024 11:15 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Of the 64 state-owned dams classified as “high hazard” — meaning their failure could result in loss of life — 33 are in poor condition, said the chief engineer of the Department of Environmental Services’ Dam Bureau.“Each one of those high hazard...


Press conferences and policy fights: Sununu looks back on eight years
12-21-2024 5:01 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

About once every year for the past eight years, New Hampshire lawmakers had their shot at a moment with Gov. Chris Sununu.Away from the press, and off the legislative calendar, the governor’s staff would open up the Executive Council chambers, spread...


Fish and Game survey aims to shape update to Big Game Management Plan
12-21-2024 3:30 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

You may have been one of the more than 30,000 New Hampshire residents to recently receive an electronic survey asking your thoughts on the state’s management of big game like deer, turkeys, moose, and bears. The survey, conducted by the University of...


Lawmakers aim to give New Hampshire residents harmed by PFAS more time to file lawsuits
12-21-2024 2:01 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

How much time should those harmed by a persistent class of man-made chemicals have to sue polluters?That’s the question lawmakers will consider in the legislative session that kicks off in January. In 2021, they lengthened the statute of limitations...

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