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State Senate leadership, bill requests, recounts, and more: Tracking the Election Day ripples
11-12-2024 11:11 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN and ETHAN DeWITT

A week past Election Day, a clearer picture has emerged of legislative priorities, voter turnout, and results ranging from Executive Council seats to a proposed constitutional amendment.Both parties – Republicans with bolstered control and Democrats...


New Hampshire’s interest and dividends tax – and why it’s a hot campaign issue – explained
10-30-2024 10:26 AM

By ETHAN DeWITT

As Democrat Joyce Craig and Republican Kelly Ayotte hone their final pitches to voters over who should be the next governor, one topic has proven particularly contentious: taxes.Craig has assailed New Hampshire Republicans’ moves to repeal the...


Craig and Ayotte agree there’s a child care crisis. Neither commit to more state funding.
10-17-2024 11:07 AM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The next governor will inherit a statewide child care crisis that has persisted despite recent state and federal investments totaling more than $160 million. And to tackle it, she will get a tight budget that’s lost two key revenue streams: millions...


Facing a potential 2025 budget shortfall, Craig, Kelly avoid specifics in debate
10-16-2024 9:00 AM

By ETHAN DeWITT

Joyce Craig and Kelly Ayotte made many economic differences clear during a debate Tuesday. Ayotte, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, applauded the elimination of the interest and dividends tax next year, while Craig, the Democratic nominee, said...


To win back the State House, New Hampshire Democrats pin hopes on top of ticket
10-15-2024 10:27 AM

By ETHAN DeWITT

Denis Murphy Jr. styles himself as a down-the-middle kind of guy. As Winchester’s town moderator, he’s had to be, he says. “I try to remain neutral, and I try to hear all sides and make sure that everybody has a voice,” Murphy said in an interview.As...


What’s next after Legislature overturned veto of bill targeting cyanobacteria
10-14-2024 10:57 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Living on Arlington Pond in Salem, Republican Rep. Lorie Ball saw the state’s cyanobacteria problem up close. The blooms, and frustration from neighbors, led her to sponsor a bill to stem the fertilizer runoff that can feed them.That bill made a rare...


NH Planned Parenthood officials say Vance defunding call ‘dangerous’ for health care
10-10-2024 11:00 AM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Local Planned Parenthood officials joined their national counterparts Wednesday in raising concerns about vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s assurances that he and former President Donald Trump would defund the organization, including its...


Bill requiring vaccine records on death certificates back before lawmakers
10-08-2024 10:21 AM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Lawmakers are scheduled to take up a bill Wednesday that would require death certificates to include the deceased’s recent immunizations – regardless of whether there was evidence the vaccine had contributed to the death. That data would then be made...


EPA assessment of Seacoast Superfund site finds ‘unacceptable added risk’ from PFAS
10-07-2024 11:17 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Some surface waters and associated wetlands near a Seacoast Superfund site have an “unacceptable added risk” from accidental ingestion, according to a new risk assessment from the Environmental Protection Agency.In the risk evaluation dated in...


Taking care of the caregivers. New Medicare pilot project rethinks paying for dementia care.
10-03-2024 11:04 AM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The five-year journey Ed Mezzanotte and his wife, Lorraine, traveled before she lost her life to Alzheimer’s disease in August was marked by heartache, fear, loss, and tragedy. Lorraine wandered from home in the wee hours and vacillated between...


‘Forever chemicals’ have cost Merrimack millions; now leaders seek fair share of settlement funds
09-30-2024 10:30 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Merrimack has paid a steep price to clean up PFAS pollution in its public drinking water. A lawmaker said Friday she hopes that doesn’t mean the town will miss out on funds from massive lawsuit settlements from manufacturers of the “forever...


State approves new deal for Laconia site, but questions remain
09-25-2024 4:31 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

State officials on Wednesday approved a new buyer for a 217-acre parcel in Laconia that’s proven hard to sell. But the buyer has two years to close, and the project may begin with commercial development, not the housing city officials say is...


With costs mounting for Fish and Game, ‘Hike Safe’ cards viewed as big part of the solution
09-25-2024 9:37 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

A 38-year-old hiker who injured her leg and could not continue on. A 56-year-old man who had a medical emergency on a remote trail. A 70-year-old who slipped and injured her ankle while hiking. These are just a handful of the hikers who needed the...


Opponents of New Hampshire voter registration law see a blueprint in Kansas
09-23-2024 11:56 AM

By ETHAN DeWITT

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...


Amid leachate problems at Bethlehem landfill, Casella bid to change operating plan challenged
09-19-2024 10:59 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

In early June, officials from the Department of Environmental Services made an unannounced visit to the landfill in Bethlehem, a small, northern New Hampshire town near the Vermont border.They came to review records related to leachate – the “trash...


Citing fall of Roe, Republicans ask for Claremont school funding decisions to be overturned
09-18-2024 11:59 AM

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...


Lawmakers will meet for ‘Veto Day’ on Oct. 10. Here are the bills they’ll consider.
09-16-2024 10:36 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Lawmakers will have a chance to override more than a dozen vetoes from Gov. Chris Sununu when they convene for “Veto Day” on Oct. 10.If a vetoed bill receives a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate, it becomes law over the governor’s...


Sununu has until Friday to sign or veto New Hampshire voter ID bill
09-12-2024 10:02 AM

By ETHAN DeWITT

Gov. Chris Sununu has days to decide the fate of a bill that would require proof of voter identification with no exceptions in future New Hampshire elections, after the legislation arrived at his desk Monday. Opponents of the bill are attempting to...


Fact check: Sununu claims cyanobacteria are ‘not toxic’
09-09-2024 10:39 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

While bloom notices piled up ahead of Labor Day weekend, Gov. Chris Sununu claimed at an Executive Council meeting held in Wakefield last week that cyanobacteria are “not toxic.” But scientists have found that cyanobacteria, especially blooms,...


Democrats call for deeper audit of New Hampshire Education Freedom Account after initial review
09-03-2024 10:53 AM

By ETHAN DeWITT

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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