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Advocates for the Derry Rail Trail won a significant victory Monday when U.S. District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro ordered the state not to do anything that would prevent extending the rail trail under a six-lane road that will connect a new Interstate 93 exit to north Derry.
The state’s new Anti-Sanctuary Act requires towns and cities to cooperate with federal immigration detainers and forbids them from enacting policies, such as refusing ICE officers access to jails, that contradict federal immigration directives.
With a handful of notable exceptions, immigration enforcement actions in New Hampshire have taken place out of the media spotlight.
The culture wars have come for Londonderry’s public library.
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the state legislature’s 2020 redistricting map, rejecting an appeal in a lawsuit brought by the cities of Dover and Rochester and 10 residents of other towns without their own state Representatives.
It was a historic Memorial Day Monday as Donald Latham led its parade as Grand Marshal for the 40th year in a row.
Despite warnings from members of the Senate Education Committee that federal funds to prevent youth suicide and substance abuse could be at risk, the state Senate voted in favor of a bill requiring parents to opt in before their children can be given a behavioral health survey at school.
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.”
The fate of the state’s Commission for Human Rights is up in the air, with the House-passed budget eliminating all funding, Gov. Kelly Ayotte working to retain and reform it – and the Senate’s position unclear.