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Granite Staters gathered on the State House plaza for a family fun fest to advocate for investments in the care economy and implementation of family friendly policies like paid family and medical leave on Saturday.
Gov. Chris Sununu signed 30 bills into law Tuesday from the recently concluded 2021 legislative session ranging from environmental changes to making church essential services during a state of emergency.
Parents anticipating a continuation of mask mandates in the Newfound Area School District came to the Aug. 9 school board meeting to protest the school reopening plan, but Superintendent Pierre Couture announced that, contrary to the draft plan posted on the district’s website, “it’s pretty much back to normal.”
State police will now have body and dash cameras and a whole new information system to support them after the Executive Council unanimously approved a new contract on Wednesday.
Granite State Independent Living reports that every week, about 18,000 hours worth of requests for in-home care go unanswered at The nonprofit, due to a severe staffing shortage.
Katie Duran of Wolfeboro was beaming and said she almost accidentally signed House Bill 581 just after Gov. Chris Sununu in celebration of a measure that places the burden of proof in special education on the system rather than the parent.
After failing to reach a settlement agreement through mediation, lawyers for Nashua’s Bishop Guertin High School want to have the sex abuse lawsuit brought by a former student dismissed.
White Mountains Community College and The Cog Railway are teaming up for some workforce development in the North Country and to keep the iconic locomotives chugging up to the top of Mount Washington.
Bishop Peter Libasci categorically denies claims made in the civil lawsuit filed in New York claiming he sexually abused a boy in 1983 and 1984 and will “vigorously” fight the allegations in court, according to his lawyer Michael J. Connolly of the Hinckley Allen law firm.