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Within hours of Gov. Chris Sununu signing the controversial Republican-backed affidavit ballot bill into law Friday, opponents filed a lawsuit calling it unconstitutional demanding it not be enforced.
New Hampshire is searching for a new outdoor director just as a report is being issued that a lack of workforce reinvestment, development, and stagnant wages have hampered growth.
Gov. Chris Sununu gave the nod to a plan that would give bidders 60 days to come up with a sales proposal for the former Laconia State School property.
The state Liquor Commission was requiring state-run liquor store customers pay with cash only Wednesday because of a problem processing credit cards.
A domestic violence charge has been dropped against Deputy Insurance Commissioner D.J. Bettencourt of Salem, who had been accused May 5 of simple assault for allegedly dragging his wife out of bed by her forearms while yelling at her after reading a text on her phone.
State agencies want to use more than $60 million of federal American Recovery Plan Act money to improve school security and refurbish county nursing homes.
Many New Hampshire consumers will be shocked by their next electric bill. They will see pedal-to-the-metal construction work on a new exit ramp on Interstate 93 in Londonderry and Derry and $50 million in new infrastructure improvements at all 10 county nursing homes to protect seniors from illnesses like COVID-19.
Meeting at the Owl Brook Hunter Education Center, the commission learned that the cost of buying farm-raised pheasants is up, those hunter numbers are down and the state is also losing willing private property owners to host the stocking sites.
The men and women suing the state claiming they were sexually and physically abused while incarcerated at the Youth Development Center in Manchester as minors have asked the court to allow their cases to go forward.