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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...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The budget headed for a House vote Thursday has good news for parents, state employees, certain retirees, wealthier Granite Staters counties, and dozens of agencies that rely on Medicaid. Others, like backers of professional licensing reform, will be...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Federal law enforcement officers have discovered illicit massage parlors in every New Hampshire county, with victims of human trafficking being forced to have sex with customers. The National Human Trafficking Hotline identified 75 victims in New...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Ahead of a winter season anticipated to see exorbitantly high heating and electricity costs, New Hampshire lawmakers earmarked an additional $35 million in state funds to help another 50,000 households pay the bills.As he signed off on the new...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire’s Education Trust Fund has racked up a sizable surplus recently. The fund, which pays out just over a billion dollars a year for the state’s share of public school funding, is expected to end this fiscal year with about $184 million...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Republican and Democratic budget writers in the House are moving to reject nearly all of the controversial and sweeping professional licensing changes Gov. Chris Sununu is seeking. This includes maintaining 31 of the 34 licenses he wants to eliminate,...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Hundreds of private well users have been reimbursed by the state after spending their own dollars to remediate PFAS contamination. But when tax season rolled around this year, they were mailed 1099 forms, telling them the money they received is...

By ETHAN DEWITT, ANNMARIE TIMMINS and HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

When Gov. Chris Sununu addressed lawmakers to deliver his budget address in February, he promised “a smart and targeted budget that sets us all up for an even brighter future.”But not all of the governor’s proposals have been embraced by House...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

New Hampshire saw a more than 370 percent increase in reported cases of babesiosis, a tick-borne disease, between 2011 and 2019, according to a new federal study released last week.Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Instead of living in nursing facilities, nearly 3,800 Granite Staters are in their own homes and communities thanks to the help they receive with basic needs like bathing, transferring from a wheelchair to bed, managing medications, making meals, and...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Advocates for children, law enforcement, and state mental health officials prevailed Thursday in persuading House members to reject legislation they said would have risked putting more juveniles at the Sununu Youth Services Center.In doing so, the...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

After nearly 10 miles of snowshoed steps, fresh powder crunching beneath his feet, Will Staats hears the calls of his hunting dogs in the distance. The sweetest music of all, he calls it – one of a tradition that dates back thousands of years.A...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to invest $15 million in federal pandemic money in a second behavioral health hospital, this one a 120-bed facility in southern New Hampshire. Just over a year ago, the department used $15 million...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire House on Wednesday voted down an effort to require educators to tell inquiring parents whether their child had made any changes to their pronouns at school – or face jail time.But the chamber left open the possibility of revisiting...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Since 1990, New Hampshire has taxed telephone communications, collecting $30 million a year in revenues from service providers who pass the tax onto customers.This year, Gov. Chris Sununu and Republican lawmakers are hoping to eliminate that tax. And...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

One thousand acres of New Hampshire’s Great Bay were once covered by live oyster reefs. Today, 90 percent have vanished, lost to pollution, disease, and harvest.But the tidal estuary is now the site of a celebrated revival, where a pilot restoration...

By JACOB FISCHLER

The federal government will send $2.5 billion over the next five years to states, local governments, and tribes to build electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Biden administration officials said Wednesday.The new Charging and Fueling...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

A residential school in Manchester serving some of the state’s most vulnerable youth is reaping the benefits of free-of-charge energy efficiency upgrades, in more ways than one. A partnership between Easterseals’ Gammon Academy and two of the state’s...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Over the objections of child advocates, a House committee voted Wednesday to reduce the number of offenses that would make a juvenile eligible for detention at the Sununu Youth Services Center. They warned rather than help juveniles, the law change...