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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.
Survivors of childhood sexual abuse want the New Hampshire Supreme Court to revive their lawsuit that claims Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s changes to the YDC Settlement Fund amount to a bait and switch.
House Republicans voted down an attempt to give Merrimack some say over a proposed ICE detention center planned for the community.
Republican Senators refused to increase the base cost of an adequate education across the state for the next biennium, didn’t go along with many Democratic bills but they all agreed that folks should be able to get booze delivered.
Exactly what state officials knew of a possible federal ICE detention facility in New Hampshire – and when they knew it – were the subjects of an emergency meeting Wednesday by the state’s Executive Council.
In addition to leaving the public and inspection stations now scrambling to understand what this all means, Commissioner Scott said the potential exists not only to pay the federal government $1.6 million a month for violation of the act, but the state could lose highway funds after 18 months of noncompliance.
Returning the Statewide Education Property Tax to a real statewide property tax would raise $1.4 billion for public education, a House committee was told Wednesday.
After a year of New Hampshire Supreme Court scandals, it’s time to rein in judges, according to Rep. Susan DeRoy (R-New Durham.)
House Bill 1811 would repeal statutory immunization requirements for children, and House Bill 1022 focuses on religious exemptions from vaccine requirements.
Saying he was “sidelined by the Republican Party,” state Representative David Nagel of Gilmanton announced Wednesday he is leaving them and joining the Democratic party in the New Hampshire State House.
Since last week’s release by the U.S. Department of Justice of more files connected to Jeffrey Epstein and his sex trafficking operation, the powerful men revealed to be in his orbit are being forced to answer questions. Dean Kamen is not accused of breaking any laws in his relationship with Epstein.
The Senate Judiciary Committee discussed Senate Bill 626, on Tuesday which would restrict right-to-know requests to those domiciled or maintaining a permanent residence in New Hampshire, and require proof of domicile or residency to file the requests.
Pig scrambles could be outlawed in the Granite State under a bill that was heard on Tuesday.
Some communities could prevent their students from using Education Freedom Account grants under a bill presented Tuesday.
Two Republican bills focused on parent’s rights and schools, including timelines for replying to parents’ questions and another to creating a process for parents to remove learning materials they find not age appropriate or offensive were heard Tuesday by the Senate Education Committee.
Documents obtained by the New Hampshire ACLU show state officials have known for weeks that Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to turn a Merrimack warehouse into a prison.
Minutes after the initial crews arrived, an explosion injured three firefighters and caused the commercial building to catch fire. Forty people had to be evacuated from the building.
Education and educators are targeted in two bills that would prohibit the teaching of personal identity ideologies, critical race theory, LGBTQ+ ideologies and alleged Marxist derived educational theories in public schools.
The former Department of Corrections officer fired after she alerted supervisors to dangerously low staffing conditions scored another win in court as her whistleblower lawsuit got the green light to proceed.
The Commission looks to curb trafficking linked to illicit massage parlors by improving licensing oversight, creating a statewide business database, and strengthening protections for victims and licensed workers.
There’s nearly always some drama, and it’s almost always over property taxes, because many people here also pay state income taxes to Massachusetts, where they work.
Beginning February 9, the Lincoln Woods Trail from Route 112-Kancamagus Highway to the junction of the Osseo trail will be closed.
February 3, 2026, marks the 25th anniversary of the disappearance of Tina Sinclair and her daughter, Bethany Sinclair, from their home in Chesterfield, New Hampshire.
Last week the Senate was in a hurry to pass two bills that will significantly harm the majority of school districts and students in public schools, while property wealthy districts and well-to-do families will benefit, all in the name of school choice.