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Beach Time Will Be more Expensive this Summer
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A trip to the beach this summer will be more costly due to higher parking fees.
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A trip to the beach this summer will be more costly due to higher parking fees.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard six cannabis bills Thursday including one in which the state would sell it at liquor stores and tax the wholesale price of the drug at 12.5 percent.
The state may be in the midst of a run of hundred-million-dollar revenue surpluses, but state agencies warn it may not be enough.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office won’t investigate a former police chief or a county prosecutor for allegedly hiding exculpatory evidence in a case that landed a man in jail for one year.
Responding to a Boston Globe series highlighting the lack of transparency in the way the New Hampshire Board of Medicine handles complaints about doctors, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella’s Office is backing new recommendations to open the process to the public.
Women across New Hampshire were urged to contact their legislators and the governor on the need to protect abortion rights in New Hampshire after political losses in the state Senate last week and a federal court ruling now threatening access to abortion medication.
Gov. Chris Sununu is traveling to Indianapolis, Indiana, Friday to deliver remarks at the National Rifle Association’s Annual Meeting prompting criticism from Democrats.
On partisan lines, two bills related to abortion protections were voted down in the state Senate Thursday 14-10 with all Republicans opposing the legislation.
House Bill 56, would ask the Department of Environmental Services to determine a safe distance but Republicans said they prefer Senate Bill 61, which has passed in the Senate and is being now considered in the House. It sets up a study and directs funding to hire an outside firm to figure that out.