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At 5:42 p.m. Thursday the state Supreme Court issued a statement saying Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald’s medical providers have confirmed that he is not able to work at this time, but did not say why or when he is expected to return.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed two actions Thursday to grant New Hampshire’s petition to withdraw from the Ozone Transport Region and to conditionally approve the state’s request to remove its Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance program from the State Implementation Plan.
The state Judicial Conduct Committee has filed formal charges against retired state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi for conversations she had while on the bench with then-Gov. Chris Sununu and PDA Chairman Steve Duprey about her husband Geno Marconi when he was the director of Ports and Harbors and under criminal investigation.
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Community members and advocates for Nickenley Turenne, who was killed by three police officers in December 2025, united at Tuesday’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting, urging city officials to change policies regarding officer-involved shootings.
Hundreds of residents and visitors to the White Mountains region of Lincoln and Woodstock were treated to a free festival as part of the National Night Out event Tuesday, which connects people with their first responders.
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Democratic Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill has asked the question of the attorney general that neither the court nor Gov. Kelly Ayotte has answered publicly: “Who is presently authorized to exercise the administrative powers and duties assigned by law and/or the constitution to the Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court?”
Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
Breaking the seal on federal action, U.S. Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-2nd Congressional District) is calling for a federal investigation into current and historic abuses inside the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called the Youth Development Center or YDC.
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The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance (NHLA) has announced that 104 New Hampshire legislators earned an A or A+ Liberty Rating in 2026, all of them Republicans, which the organization said is more than double the total for 2025.
Immigration remains a stronger issue for President Donald Trump than the economy or Iran, according to a new AP-NORC poll, even after three people were killed in encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the span of under a week in July.
New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon J. MacDonald is taking a medical leave of absence, effective immediately, according to a brief statement from the court Friday morning that provided no explanation and no details about who is in charge of the court system in his absence.
Why are we surprised when the ninety degree weather shows up with his friend Humidity.
After 490 days of bargaining, the University of New Hampshire chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-UNH) declared an impasse in contract negotiations with the university administration, alleging it failed to address rising living costs and the long-term health of the university while struggling to retain faculty.
But his alleged victim, Bonnie Sitomer, isn’t taking chances that Stone and his legal team will delay the trial again. Sitomer recently hired a lawyer to send a letter Carroll County Attorney Keith Blair asking for a speedy trial.
The state found members of NSC-131, a white supremacy Neo-Nazi group, gathered outside the Teatotaller Café downtown during a drag queen story hour event on Father’s Day morning that year to intimidate the business into denying equal access based on protected characteristics.
More than 100 people came to Forest Lake State Park Thursday to celebrate the state’s creation of a site evaluation committee for the siting of landfills, which will take local concerns into consideration.
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Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte said she welcomes anyone who wants to come to New Hampshire to observe how elections are run, including Republican Trump Administration officials and it is all part of being a First-in-the-Nation Primary state.
The state’s newly implemented bell-to-bell cell phone ban has been effective in reducing distractions in the classroom and improving student focus according to administrators and teachers in a recent Department of Education survey.