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Opposition turned out for a bill that would prohibit any sanctuary cities or towns in the state and block local officials from preventing local law enforcement from cooperating and working with federal immigration authorities.
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“The President’s sweeping, indiscriminate tariffs that are driving costs through the roof also have dire national security and defense consequences.”
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that members of the Attorney General’s Office are responding to a report of an officer-involved shooting that occurred late this afternoon in Keene, New Hampshire.
To cheers so loud Speaker Sherman Packard threatened to clear the chamber, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 200 to 180 to indefinitely postpone so called “right to work” legislation, House Bill 238, on Thursday.
Four economists have submitted written expert testimony in that docket, in which the PUC is considering Eversource’s request to hike its distribution charges by a whopping 47 percent for residential customers.
Attorney General John M. Formella, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark B. Hall, and Exeter Police Chief Stephan Poulin announce the following update on the ongoing investigation into the death of Janet Risneill Kelsen (age 88), of Exeter, New Hampshire.
The state of New Hampshire may be misinforming Education Freedom Account parents about their federal tax liability for the grant money they receive.
Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) delivered remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate to oppose the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for Health and Human Services Secretary.
If the Children’s Scholarship Fund — NH, which administers two state scholarship programs, had an affiliated non-profit incorporated in New Hampshire, lawmakers would be able to better track how taxpayer dollars are used, a House committee was told Wednesday.
State Rep. Marjorie Smith, D-Durham, offered a bill that she said would be “constitutional, equitable and fair” to adequately fund public education across the state but opponents said it would be a huge cost burden to property taxpayers in a tough year.
Releasing balloons into the atmosphere would be a form of littering punishable by a $250 fine under a bill heard in the legislature Wednesday.
New Hampshire Union Leader employees no longer have an ownership stake in the newspaper as the William Loeb Union Leader Trust was dissolved to help close its still opaque bailout deal.
Police were first notified Sunday, February 9, 2025, of the death of an elderly female at 133 Front Street, Unit 4, in Exeter. The cause of death was not immediately apparent.
Two bills that would “rein in” the state’s voucher, or Education Freedom Account program, through annual means testing of parents and greater transparency had public hearings Tuesday before the Senate Education Committee.
A bill that would change the way the state addresses excess funds paid to municipalities for the use of school districts went to a hearing Tuesday.
After a number of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students urged lawmakers to offer that curriculum across the state, a lawmaker urged the committee to eliminate much of STEM from the state’s core curriculum.
Enabling legislation that would allow municipalities to tax standing wood and timber on land used for carbon sequestration went to a public hearing Monday with a mix of support and opposition.
Today, Governor Kelly Ayotte met with Mayor Brian A. DePeña of Lawrence, Mass., to discuss how the City and the State of New Hampshire can work together to combat cross-border crime and drug trafficking.
Shaheen secured full authorization for the Shipbuilding Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP) projects at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the Fiscal Year 2025.
Portsmouth is a desirable place to live and one reason for that is non-profit organizations like The Music Hall.
Lawmakers and the general public this week will hear new Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s plan to craft the next biennial budget which is fraught with declining revenues, new obligations and more questions than answers about the federal funding the state depends on to survive.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) has identified an adult from Merrimack County with clade I mpox, formerly called monkeypox.
HB 638 creates a possibility for parole for prisoners serving a legislatively imposed automatic life sentence for first degree murder; “legislatively imposed” because there is no sentencing discretion.