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Instituting a new work requirement for able-bodied people on the state’s Granite Advantage Medicaid program was opposed by medical providers, advocates for the disabled, mentally ill, greater healthcare access, and substance abuse treatment and recovery Wednesday.
Open water season in the Lakes Region has begun with Emerson Aviation calling ice out today at 7:02 a.m. on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Little support was shown for the Senate’s proposal for expanding the Education Freedom Account program to eliminate any income requirement Tuesday.
New Hampshire Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice James P. Bassett notified Governor Kelly Ayotte Tuesday that he will retire from the Supreme Court as of August 31, 2025, one year before the mandatory retirement age of 70.
The New Hampshire Hospital Association, along with Dartmouth Health and its affiliated hospitals and Concord Hospital and its affiliates, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Medicaid Enhancement Tax (MET) to protect access to important health care services for all patients, according to a statement by Steve Ahnen, president of the New Hampshire Hospital Association.
It is a perfect moment in New Hampshire for a three-year moratorium on new landfills, Senators were told during a public hearing Tuesday before the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee.
As part of their ongoing efforts, the Manchester Crimeline has increased the reward for information leading to a breakthrough in the case. The reward now stands at $5,000.
An indictment has been unsealed charging eight defendants in connection with an international scheme to bill $10 million in fraudulent market survey data, Acting U.S. Attorney Jay McCormack announces.
Adding that educators have a responsibility to parents as well as their students to the educators’ codes of conduct and ethics is not needed and could lead to potential problems, the Senate Education Committee was told Tuesday.
Former fertility specialist Dr. Misty Blanchette Porter is now owed $1.125 million after a jury found that Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center broke Vermont’s disability discrimination law when it fired her in 2017.
