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By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

The New Hampshire Legislature advanced several key bills last week, including Republican overhauls on education funding, rollbacks on bail reform and more. Here’s what you need to know.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

To stave off teacher layoffs, Merrimack Valley School Board members indicated Wednesday that they may support charging families for school sports, forgoing certain building maintenance and halting a program that provides each elementary student a computer.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

After 10 years as the director of operations at Beaver Meadow Golf Course, Phil Davis announced in an email to members that he would be resigning this month and taking a new job with a different organization.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Police officers in New Hampshire used deadly force nine times last year, with all but one resulting in loss of life. Police shot two more men this year, leaving one dead.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

First responders searched for the body of a man believed to have drowned in the Merrimack River in the area of the Merrimack Street Bridge Thursday.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A high-speed chase that began Wednesday night spanning multiple towns ended Thursday morning with the arrest of a Merrimack man who police say evaded capture after officers deflated his tires twice.

By DAVID BROOKS

It’s an interesting time for Ragged Mountain Resort in Danbury, which is holding its 60th birthday party this weekend after enjoying a record ski season – because it’s also for sale.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The Concord Skatepark Association meets nearly every Wednesday at Feathered Friend Brewery.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Webster residents approved a $1.94 million operating budget on Saturday, a 6.5% increase from the previous year.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ascentria Care Alliance, the primary refugee resettlement agency working in Concord, announced layoffs this week among its staff that assist refugees and migrants in New Hampshire, citing funding cuts from the federal government.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Tedd Benson’s company has worked with the same Canadian supplier for over 20 years and uses a certain type of engineered wood to manufacture houses at its facilities in Keene and Walpole.

By REBECA PEREIRA

The average license plate, like a muddled Rorschach test, is often an indecipherable jumble of numbers and letters. Granite Staters like to add a little more flair.

By DAVID BROOKS

You’ll soon have to slow down and go through the gates at Hooksett tolls just like the old days, because the two-high speed lanes for the Open Road Toll system will be shut for two months as it is upgraded. 

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

For nearly two weeks, Merrimack Valley High School teachers said they’ve been left to wonder whether they’ll have jobs next year.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

In the dusty basement of the State House Annex, the floor littered with chunks of cement dislodged from the construction above, a lawyer in a black suit clicked on his tape recorder.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Mary Jane Wallner knows that every dollar counts for kids in foster care. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord is divided down the middle by the Merrimack River. The Loudon Road bridge, with 25,000 crossings on an average day, is the main artery between downtown and the Heights, an essential link between the city’s two centers of gravity.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Police responded to a bomb threat at Bishop Brady High School in Concord Tuesday afternoon, the police department said in a statement.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

At the first of two public hearings on the $111.6 proposed budget for Concord Schools, just two people testified.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

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By DAVID BROOKS

Lawmakers may soon make New Hampshire the first state in the Northeast to eliminate required annual vehicle inspections, a change that would save drivers tens of millions of dollars while reducing highway funding by nearly $3 million and curtailing a program to reduce local air pollution from cars.