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UPDATED: Todd Lyons, Acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Thursday that Department of Homeland Security officials spoke with Gov. Kelly Ayotte about the proposed immigrant detention center for Merrimack before she publicly acknowledged knowing about the plan, which she immediately denied in a news release.
Children would no longer be required to have a Hepatitis B vaccine to attend schools and daycares after the House Thursday initially approved House Bill 1719.
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.
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.
Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Will was questioned by members of the Executive Council and the subject of a public hearing Friday on whether he should serve as an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
Confession: I don’t know how computers work. When mine goes south, I stab random buttons. I turn it on and off. I swear out loud. It usually works again after a while and then I move along. Ditto for my phone, ditto for my car, ditto for the other machinery on which I rely any given day.
Senior Class President Deems Brant said the group joined with students from the University of New Hampshire at Durham Community Church before marching down Main Street. More than 400 young advocates took part in the cause, according to Brant.
For three years, based on her personal experience of an attempted sexual assault by a co-worker at a party, Rep. Ellen Read, D-Newmarket, has been trying to get a bill passed that would require health care providers, law enforcement and other responders to inform sexual assault victims of their right to obtain medical evidence.
Steven Tendo, a Ugandan pastor and asylum-seeker who was detained by federal immigration agents in Vermont on Wednesday, is now being held at the Strafford County Department of Corrections in Dover, NH, according to an online detainee tracker from ICE.