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Accusations of harassment, doxing and retaliation – as well as harrowing personal stories about domestic and sexual violence – dominated a lengthy hearing Wednesday on a bill that would form a legislative commission to investigate the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Divorced parents and step-parents recounted personal horror stories Tuesday during testimony on a Republican-sponsored bill that makes “parental alienation” as important as child abuse in family court cases involving divorce and child custody.
The state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) affirmed a large increase in Eversource electric bills for residential customers but threw out automatic yearly increases of $2 a month going forward, in a mixed decision handed down on New Year’s Eve.
The House Education Policy and Administration Committee on Wednesday revived parts of a bill banning “obscene” materials in schools that Gov. Kelly Ayotte had vetoed in July, by inserting some of its language into a Senate bill.
The killing of Turning Point USA founder and Trump supporter Charlie Kirk is reverberating throughout New Hampshire – and testing the limits of free speech, hate speech and civil discourse.