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Route 28 Closed for Deadly Crash Investigation
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One person has died after a crash involving a dump truck in Ossipee. Route 28 is closed in the area of the crash, and the investigation continues.
AG: Man Shot in Police-Involved Shooting
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The incident reportedly occurred as members of the Pelham Police Department were called to a residence on Nashua Road following a 911 call for an armed adult male resident in mental distress.
Speaking of Words: Who’d a Thunk It?
People studying English as a second language—or its Germanic cousins such as German, Dutch, or Icelandic—must contend with a sizable list of irregular verbs.
Ayotte Signs 23 Bills Into Law
HB 231 – Prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent.
Dartmouth Student Workers Threaten Strike
Unionized undergraduate workers at Dartmouth College say they are prepared to go on strike if their demands for pay raises, protection of jobs from automation, and protection of their members from federal immigration agents are not met.
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Radio Free New Hampshire: Trump the Liberal
Fly Fishing Mad Beaver Pond
Blowin’ in the Wind: Fiscal Flim-Flam Property Taxes & Local Control
Business & Economy
Potential School Book Ban Headed to the Governor
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After a nearly one-hour debate, the Senate Thursday voted along party lines to approve a bill that sets up the process to ban books and other “inappropriate materials” from public schools.
Courts & Corrections
Bills Banning Sanctuary Cities Head to Gov.; Ending Annual Inspections a No Go
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A bill banning sanctuary cities in New Hampshire and one that requires law enforcement agencies to comply with immigration detainers are headed to the governor’s desk after they passed the Senate Thursday.
Obituary
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter
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The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
Business & Economy
Nonprofit Questions NRC About Trump Executive Orders, Cracking Concrete at Seabrook
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Members of the public and the nonprofit organization C-10 Research and Education Foundation questioned the NRC engineers about whether a series of executive orders from President Trump will impair the agency’s ability to continue protecting the health and safety of the 175,000 people who live within a 10-mile radius of the reactor – the “evacuation zone.”
Business & Economy
Rep. Sweeney Warns It’s Time for UNH Police To Work With ICE
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Implying there are more illegal immigrant students than the three the University of New Hampshire System told him Wednesday, Deputy House Majority Leader Joe Sweeney threatened possible U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement involvement.
Courts & Corrections
Camp Fatima Lawsuit Heads To NH Supreme Court for Oral Arguments
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Whether or not a man who claims he was sexually abused as a child by a Roman Catholic priest is allowed to bring a lawsuit against the Diocese of Manchester is about to get decided by the state Supreme Court.
Business & Economy
What Do You Think About Frisbie Memorial Hospital Since Bought by HCA?
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The Healthcare Consumer Protection Advisory Commission will hold a public meeting at the Rochester Library Community Room on May 28, 2025, from 4:30 to 6:30 PM in person or virtually to share their healthcare experience since the acquisition of Frisbie Memorial Hospital by HCA.
Feature
Q&A for the OCA on Electric Rates
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And I don’t have any reason to doubt that electricity rates in New Hampshire have climbed, on average, by 36 percent in the nine years I have served as the state’s official advocate for the interests of residential utility customers.
Arts and Entertainment
Sharing Our Reporting and Hiring: What’s New at InDepthNH.org After 10 Years
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We are also thrilled to encourage all other news outlets to share our excellent reporting for free by using the “Republish This Story” link at the end of every story as we have been doing this year, and started out doing.
Business & Economy
North Country Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Opioids
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A New Hampshire doctor pleaded guilty today to unlawfully distributing a controlled substance. This is the first conviction of a doctor in the District of New Hampshire from a joint investigation by the New England Strike Force and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Business & Economy
Shaheen Leads Effort To Protect Connecticut River Watershed
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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, is leading the New England Senate delegation in reintroducing a bill that will promote and fund restoration and protection efforts in the five-state Connecticut River Watershed.
Two Changes to Default Budgets Proposed
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Two bills that would change the default budget process for Senate Bill 2 towns and school districts had different fates before the Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee Tuesday.
Business & Economy
Senate Finance Rejects Governor’s Office Request To Restore $100,000 To Its Budget
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The Department of Corrections will go without a secretary and a request to restore $100,000 in the governor’s budget was rejected as the Senate Finance Committee gets to work this week on recommendations to the full Senate for a new budget in tough economic times.
Business & Economy
Forest Carbon Capture Bill Headed To Moratorium and Study
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A bill that would have extended the state’s timber tax to properties enrolled in carbon sequestration programs has been changed by a Senate committee to a study committee and moratorium.
Business & Economy
Shaheen Slams Trump’s Trip and Plan to Accept Luxury Qatari Plane as Air Force One
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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), joined CNN News Central to discuss President Trump’s trip to the Middle East this week and rebuke the President’s reported plans to accept a luxury Qatari jet to use as Air Force One, which raises clear ethical, Constitutional and national security implications.
Op-Ed
Distant Dome: Turning the Legislature Into an Arm of the Free State Project
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First they came for the vaccine and the masks, and then they came for the Trans kids and their healthcare. Then it was public schools, libraries, the interest and dividends tax, and now zoning and land use regulations.
News
What Our Readers Say About NH Law Enforcement Working With ICE
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Here are your opinions about local, county and state law enforcement agencies teaming up with ICE.
Business & Economy
Senate Finance Votes To Retain Medicaid Rates, Developmental Disabilities Funds and Mental Health
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Saying they heard loud and clear from the public, Medicaid provider rates will not change and funds will be restored to the developmental disability wait list along with community mental health program support as part of the proposed two-year budget and trailer bills under the Senate Finance Committee.
News
Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter dies at Age 85
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Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States David H. Souter died peacefully Thursday at home in New Hampshire at the age of 85.