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By ETHAN DEWITT

In her quest for the New Hampshire governor’s office, Kelly Ayotte is breaking financial records. As of Oct. 30, the Republican nominee and former U.S. senator has raised $21 million into her personal campaign fund since running for the office and...

By ETHAN DEWITT

In Kelly Ayotte’s campaign for governor, the now-governor-elect was clear in ads and speeches: She would not be making changes to the state’s abortion law.That law, passed in 2021, bans abortions after six months of pregnancy except in cases of fatal...

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Two Londonderry Republicans will lead the New Hampshire House and Senate for the next two years, after being formally voted in by their peers Wednesday. Sherman Packard was reelected House speaker, beginning his third term in the job with a much more...

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The Executive Council tabled a proposal Wednesday to create a public-private partnership and allow Dartmouth Health to run the state’s Hampstead Hospital, after councilors argued they needed more time to review the contract.The proposal would allow...

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New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a public-private partnership with Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital – a branch of the Dartmouth Health system – to take over the state’s Hampstead Hospital and Residential Treatment...

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After a two-year process, lawmakers approved a broad package of state rules last week governing how public schools should operate. But many public school educators say they aren’t happy.Known as the “minimum standards for public school approval,” the...

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The number of reported bullying incidents among New Hampshire public middle school students ticked up 12.5% this past school year, state data shows, after it had appeared to plateau since the pandemic.But other metrics have been more steady. The...

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New Hampshire school districts will be hit with a spike in costs for special education this year due to higher than usual costs per student, according to the state Department of Education.And the state’s special education aid fund — which is supposed...

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In 2022, the town of Newington needed to raise $309,366 in statewide property taxes in order to pay for an “adequate education” in its schools as defined by a state formula.Instead, after applying the standard statewide property tax rate, the town...

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Two months away from leaving office, Gov. Chris Sununu had a reminder for lawmakers Tuesday: New Hampshire faces leaner times ahead.As lawmakers craft a budget, the expiration of COVID-19 relief funding, which allowed New Hampshire to disburse...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Republicans have had a trifecta of control since 2021. But with an evenly divided House chamber the past two years, their powers were limited. A handful of absent lawmakers on voting day could tank a bill, and often did. Now, with Tuesday’s election...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Republican former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte will be New Hampshire’s next governor, after defeating Democratic former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig Tuesday in a campaign built on a promise of economic continuity, increased focus on crime and immigration,...

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New Hampshire’s “Summer EBT” program will still be distributing funds to low-income families this year, officials say. It will just happen in late fall and winter.The program, approved by the Legislature last spring, uses federal dollars from the U.S....

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New Hampshire health officials are continuing an overhaul of the national suicide prevention hotline and have accepted federal money to improve the state’s response.On Oct. 18, the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee approved an additional $979,000 in...

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Republicans on the House Transportation Committee are recommending legislation allowing families to provide a “home school” version of driver’s education.House Bill 55 would end the requirement that teenagers between 15 and 18 years old take an...

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Director of the New Hampshire Port Authority Geno Marconi was indicted Thursday on two felony charges of witness tampering and falsifying physical evidence — a day after his wife, Supreme Court Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi, was also...

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Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has been indicted on two felonies by a grand jury for allegedly interfering with the criminal investigation of her husband, according to the New Hampshire Attorney...

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The standoff began over email.A day before the Bow High School junior varsity girls’ soccer team was set to face off on home turf against the Plymouth Regional High School’s team — a team that included a transgender female player — Bow’s athletic...

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 The New Hampshire Supreme Court appears unlikely to overturn the landmark Claremont school funding decisions from the 1990s in the latest round of school funding lawsuits, according to a court order.The announcement signals that the court is not...

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In August, the Kearsarge Regional School Board took up a thorny question: How should it comply with a new law barring transgender girls from middle and high school sports?Earlier that summer, Gov. Chris Sununu had signed the law, House Bill 1205,...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire Department of Justice is projecting it will spend about $200,000 in the next year to defend the state’s school finance laws from a pair of lawsuits.The estimate, which covers the 2025 state fiscal year, is part of a $6.7 million...