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By ETHAN DEWITT

For Wendy Santiago, moving her son out of the public school system didn’t feel like a luxury. It felt like a necessity.By his third year in the Concord school system, Santiago’s son had been the subject of regular bullying, she testified to...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire senators are considering a bill that would require landlords to give information on legal aid to tenants who are being evicted.House Bill 379, which passed the House on a voice vote earlier this month, would mandate that eviction notices...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

A ground-level crypt inside the peaceful Mount Calvary mausoleum is flanked by butter yellow tulips and bright chrysanthemums. Late in the day, sunlight pours through an adjacent stained-glass window, painting it in colors of sea glass – translucent...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

The Department of Environmental Services doesn’t look at how multiple pollutants being produced by the same facility may combine, or the collective pollutive burden created by more than one site within close proximity, an official told House lawmakers...

By  ETHAN DEWITT 

Online poker is illegal in New Hampshire, and most of the rest of the United States. But many find ways to do it anyway, experts say.Those interested download VPNs – “virtual private networks” – allowing them to discreetly access websites that are...

By ASHLEY MURRAY

Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans could face higher barriers to food assistance under the U.S. House Republican plan to cut spending while temporarily lifting the debt limit, advocates say.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Limit, Save, Grow...

By ETHAN DEWITT

A push to increase who is eligible for free and reduced price lunches in schools is facing a setback, after the Senate Education Committee recommended delaying a decision on the bill until next year.House Bill 572 would raise the income threshold for...

By BEATRICE BURACK

Ski season is over at Whaleback Mountain, and snow remains only in scattered patches across its 30 trails. It’s normal for the mountain to be closed this time of year, said Business Operations Director Alex Lahood. But these remaining patches tell the...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Like those before her, the woman came to the Cross Roads House homeless shelter in Portsmouth in crisis. She’d lost her car, which she’d been living in for four years, in a fire. She’d also recently lost her son.Unlike most at the shelter, the woman...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The town of Conway does not have a homeless shelter. But it does have a few motels.That’s enough to draw unhoused residents in the area to the town’s welfare office to seek temporary relief. When they arrive, General Assistance Officer B.J. Parker is...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state’s largest insurance company, owes the state’s hospitals nearly $300 million in unpaid claims, according to a report released Wednesday by the New Hampshire Hospital Association. It said Anthem has not...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Several years before his death in 2002, at age 88, Robert T. Keeler drew up a will to make his intentions clear. His wife and family were his primary beneficiaries. Also on the list were his secretary and housekeeper, a church, seminary, and medical...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Much of the Northeast joined together last week in submitting a whopping $3.62 billion proposal to the federal government in hopes of becoming a regional clean hydrogen hub. Missing from the announcement was New Hampshire.Massachusetts, Rhode Island,...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Congressman Chris Pappas has introduced federal legislation that would spare future PFAS rebate recipients across the country from what his constituents in New Hampshire experienced this tax season.Private well users who applied for and received...

HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

The Department of Corrections is reporting significant shortfalls in its overtime and medical budgets, prompting an appeal to the state for help. The two requests going before the Executive Council Wednesday are indicative of ongoing challenges at the...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Lawmakers are taking up education issues this year that go beyond the big ones, such as adequate funding, school safety, and school vouchers. The instruction of cursive writing and multiplication tables is also dividing the public and...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Reproductive health care providers reassured patients Monday that pill abortions will remain legal, safe, and available in New Hampshire – even if a Texas federal court judge succeeds in blocking access to one of the two medications used.They...

By ETHAN DeWITT

In 2019, Keene’s Human Services Department recorded just one individual and one family formally asking the city for help with their housing. A year later, that number rose dramatically: 51 individuals and 20 families asked for housing assistance in...

By:  ARIANA FIGUEROA 

Lawmakers in 11 states have either passed or introduced laws to roll back child labor laws – a push that’s come from industry trade organizations and mostly conservative legislators as businesses scramble for low-wage workers. In the past two...

By JENNIFER SHUTT

The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday detailed its plan to spend $80 billion in additional funding that Democrats approved last year as part of their climate change and health care package. The plan says the agency will boost tax enforcement by...