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Hundreds of people gathered outside the State House on Sunday for a “Not My Presidents Day Rally” hosted by NH 50501, to voice concerns about the Trump Administration’s agenda and actions taken by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) locally and nationally,
Radical NH Republicans are trying to crush public education, the foundation of our democracy. Their approach is to attack education from all sides banning books and curriculum, challenging staffing, and undermining funding.
House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R-Auburn), Deputy Majority Floor Leader Juliet Harvey-Bolia (R-Tilton), and Representative Steven Bogert (R-Laconia) released the following statement, eulogizing State Representative Harry Bean, who passed away in the morning of February 14th, 2026.
Two bills coming before the House this week are indicative of the New Hampshire Legislature: where it is heading and where it has been for the last three terms.
Restoring the structure of the selection of the Youth Development Center child abuse claims administrator to the state’s Supreme Court was supported by all who testified Thursday, including several victims and their lawyers.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
The House defeated a proposal to require Education Freedom Account students evaluation results be reported to the Department of Education.
Another public hearing was held Thursday morning at the State House for House Bill 121, regarding school district financial requirements and district probation processes.
Accusations of harassment, doxing and retaliation – as well as harrowing personal stories about domestic and sexual violence – dominated a lengthy hearing Wednesday on a bill that would form a legislative commission to investigate the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
A federal grand jury has refused to indict six congressional Democrats, including Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, D-NH, for a short video they made last November telling members of the military they should not follow “illegal orders,” Goodlander confirmed Wednesday.
The House Environment and Agricultural Committee held a public hearing on Wednesday for House Bill 1138, which aims to limit the placement of out-of-state waste going into landfills in New Hampshire.
Within 90 days, all law enforcement in the state will have real-time bail information at their fingertips, thanks in part to a contract approved Wednesday and the lessons the state learned following the murder of a 25-year-old Berlin woman last summer.
Banning the construction of new mega data centers for a year would give lawmakers time to study their effects on a small state like New Hampshire, a House committee was told Wednesday.
Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Will, 59, of Loudon was confirmed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, replacing the retiring Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi who retired at the age of 70.
It took a “hot second” for the Republican majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee to recommend killing a comprehensive bill to legalize, regulate and tax the sale of cannabis in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Advocates for the Derry Rail Trail will get a bicycling and pedestrian tunnel, as originally planned, under a six-lane access road being built to serve the new Exit 4A off Interstate 93 in North Derry, according to a settlement announced Tuesday.
The House Education Committee continued its public hearing Tuesday on House Bill 1121, which seeks to define the cost of an adequate education for students attending schools throughout the state.
The Senate Education Committee Tuesday made quick work of bills that would require enhanced legislative oversight of the Education Freedom Account program killing them immediately after the public hearings.
How can the state Legislature help to save local news and news outlets?
A bipartisan subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee – several of them former reporters – grappled with that question Monday while considering a bill to grant a tax credit to businesses that advertise in local newspapers and broadcast outlets.
After taking full responsibility for not informing the governor of a Trump administration request for information on a potential ICE detention center in Merrimack and offering an apology during an Executive Council emergency meeting Feb. 4, Sarah Stewart has resigned at Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s request.
You’ll find a picture with this column where someone at Market Basket changed their mind at the very last minute. They returned the My-T-Fine Lemon Pudding & Pie Filling right at the check out, the final moments of a shopping trip.
Choosing a fishing partner can be a difficult and a somewhat interesting challenge. It can sometimes be so anxiety producing that an angler would rather fish alone, which is not a bad thing.
The national movement in opposition to Donald Trump and his regime has been growing at great speed, with demonstrations of various kinds taking place nearly every day across the country.
While the bottom line for January’s state revenues may look good, it belies some troubling trends that are likely to led to a revenue deficit at the end of the 2026 fiscal year.