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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,...

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...

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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....

By ETHAN DEWITT

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...

By ETHAN DEWITT

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...

By ETHAN DEWITT

 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...

By ETHAN DEWITT

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...

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When Kansas passed a law requiring all voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, the effects were swift.Three years after the law took effect, 31,089 voter registration applicants – 12 percent of all applications – were...

By ETHAN DEWITT

In 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court erased nearly 50 years of precedent by finding Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and overturning it.This year, a group of Republican lawmakers are hoping the state Supreme...

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In five cases, families approved for an Education Freedom Account did not present sufficient documentation that they lived in New Hampshire, according to a Department of Education review.In two cases, families were found to be above the income limit...

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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 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...

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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...

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New Hampshire’s state primary is a month away, and with hard fought primaries on both the Republican and Democratic sides — especially in the race for governor — the stakes are high. But not everyone will be able to make it to their polls on Sept. 10,...

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...