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By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

Researchers will gather at Dartmouth College on Wednesday to discuss the promise AI holds in health care – as well as the challenges it presents.The symposium, AI in Medicine: Bridging Innovation & Practice, is open to the public as well as...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

New Hampshire abortion providers say the medication at the center of a major legal fight before the U.S. Supreme Court has been key to expanding abortion access locally.Abortions done via medication, rather than an in-clinic procedure, have become...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

Dr. Andrew Spector was in the middle of surgery on Friday when he received an urgent text from an administrator. Strangers were calling his employer, Dartmouth Health, demanding he be fired.He soon learned it was because of a video going viral on...

By TODD BOOKMAN and JASON MOON

Lawyers for more than 1,100 victims of alleged sexual, physical, and psychological abuse at New Hampshire youth detention facilities already have access to tens of thousands of pages of state records as part of their civil lawsuits against the...

By TODD BOOKMAN

New Hampshire Senate Republicans blocked an effort to enact an extreme risk protection order system, sometimes referred to as a “red flag” law.The proposal up for debate Thursday would have allowed someone’s relatives or law enforcement to petition a...

By SARAH GIBSON

Lawmakers are again considering whether to give the state’s top education official power to issue subpoenas during teacher misconduct investigations.The bill, backed by Republican lawmakers and the Department of Education, is a more tailored version...

By JOSH ROGERS

Gov. Chris Sununu wants to send soldiers from the New Hampshire National Guard to Eagle Pass, Texas, to aid with immigration enforcement efforts at the nation’s southern border.The move comes amid ongoing tension between Texas and the federal...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

About 2 billion gallons of raw sewage mixed with stormwater runoff flowed into the Merrimack River last year, blowing the previous record for sewer overflows out of the water.The Merrimack River Watershed Council has only been keeping track of the...

President Joe Biden won this year’s New Hampshire Democratic primary thanks to more than 79,000 thousand write-in votes, according to the latest count from the New Hampshire Secretary of State. But he wasn’t the only write-in candidate.The second most...

By OLIVIA RICHARDSON

New research from the University of New Hampshire has found that the state’s voting population doesn’t look the same as it did in 2020.Kenneth Johnson, who led the study, said when people think of New Hampshire they might think of an aging population...

By JOSH ROGERS

The political fall out for Rep. Laurie Sanborn, one of the top ranking lawmakers in the New Hampshire House, remains uncertain — nearly two weeks since the state suspended the casino license held by her husband, former state Sen. Andy Sanborn.Rep....

By OLIVIA RICHARDSON

Dozens of Littleton residents gathered at Monday’s select board meeting, many hoping for an apology for anti-LGBTQ+ remarks made by one of its members and a resolution to the board’s handling of a larger debate over public art by and about LGBTQ+...

State lawmakers will kick off their 2024 session this week by polishing off 2023’s leftovers — the more than 300 bills slated for action last year that were retained over the summer.The New Hampshire House of Representatives has the far fuller plate,...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

Between retirements and the demand for people with commercial drivers licenses at private companies, New Hampshire has had a tough time staffing the trucks that plow snow.State officials are trying a variety of things to recruit drivers: offering...

By TODD BOOKMAN

While the rest of the state is trending orange, russet and red, Mount Washington turned white Sunday.The region’s highest peak saw its first measurable snowfall of the season, coming on the heels of a few flakes that fell in August but didn’t...

By TODD BOOKMAN

Catholic Medical Center has hired an outside law firm with experience in the healthcare industry to review its cardiac surgery unit, following a Boston Globe Spotlight investigation that raised concerns about a former CMC surgeon with one of the...