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State revenues rebounded in one of the biggest months for collections during the fiscal year — April — returning $38.2 million more than the revenue plan for fiscal year 2024, and $6.1 million more than a year ago.
The House Thursday initially approved changes to the Youth Detention Center settlement fund that officials believe will make the program more attractive to the victims and increase settlements.
Bonnie Sitomer, who says she was a victim of sexual assault by a former North Conway counselor, sat in the gallery of the state Senate Thursday as it passed a bill she helped along that forces stricter rules for violent felons who want to change their names and try to erase their past.
The Executive Council approved $1 million for OHRV trail repairs and $1 million for cyanobacteria prevention in state waters during its meeting Wednesday.
The union representing hundreds of Dartmouth College graduate student-workers says it will go on strike Wednesday, May 1 after eight months of bargaining and what the union calls the college administration’s “grossly inadequate” responses to union proposals.
The state is looking to a new plan for the future of the Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, with increased funding needed to keep the asset transporting tourists and skiers in Franconia Notch State Park.
Gather, a nonprofit that has developed innovative programs to address food insecurity and provide free food to residents in 59 communities in southern New Hampshire, has announced an initiative to utilize excess food from the hospitality industry.
On April 19, the EPA announced that two widely used PFAS chemicals would be designated as hazardous substances under the Superfund Law—another substantial step to combat widespread health and environmental impacts of forever chemicals, soon after the EPA’s announcement of new PFAS drinking water standards.
Unlike California, New York and many other states, New Hampshire would prohibit any squatters’ rights allowing someone to remain in a building they occupied without an agreement with the owner.