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A teen girl was repeatedly raped by the care giver who was paid by the state, and the state employees who were supposed to oversee her case repeatedly covered for the abusers, according to a new lawsuit filed in Merrimack Superior Court.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte said the state has a very important role to play nationally as being the first in the nation to vote for a president and hopes the election for Secretary of State is not politicized for the sake of that role.
With the cost of home heating products soaring and federal assistance not keeping up, Gov. Kelly Ayotte told Executive Councilors she has joined with all the other governors of New England to seek a $3 billion increase nationwide for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program ahead of winter.
The elections in New Hampshire and nationally this month were seismic in their impact, but I believe they had different motivators.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 11-9 along partisan lines to recommend it study the bill SB 627-FN, for at least the next six months, despite Democrats who supported the measure and want to see it pass.
Seacoast Friends Preserving Democracy is hosting the “Preserving Democracy: The Role of New Hampshire’s Independent Media” event May 7 at the Portsmouth Library. SFPD: Website: https://seacoastfriends.org/
The filing period for the 2026 State Election is June 3 – June 12, 2026.
On April 27, 1980, Laureen vanished from her home at 289 Merrimack Street in Manchester. While decades have passed, the resolve of law enforcement to find answers and bring justice to Laureen and her family remains unwavering.
In response to the stay, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) announced it will pivot to a different medication abortion drug protocol in its telehealth program.
This morning at about 9:24 a.m., the Tuftonboro Police Department responded to a single-family summer residence in Tuftonboro. Outside of the home, they discovered the two deceased adult homeowners.
A public input meeting to address concerns about the state’s long backlog in human rights complaints was held Friday, but no one came to speak.
After Gov. Kelly Ayotte said she would have the attorney general investigate Vail Resorts over its decision to tax skiing in New Hampshire with its EPIC pass, the Colorado-based company said Friday it will provide a tax-free option to pass holders who only plan to ski at Granite State resorts this coming winter.
Though they could not find anything “nefarious,” a state Department of Justice and
Department of Administrative Services review of how a state agency replied to a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement request for information on a now-scrubbed detention facility in Merrimack, they did find the governor was not informed.
Hampshire College in western Massachusetts is closing its doors soon. It was founded in the mid-1960’s by professional educators who wished to foster creativity and self-expression.
The participants’ demands are to tax the rich, no Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and no war, and to “expand democracy, not corporate power. Hands off our votes.”
In today’s hearing examining the President’s budget request for the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a top member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services and Appropriations Committees, grilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and senior defense officials for details about how the Pentagon plans to use $400 million that Congress has allotted for Ukraine.
While Democrats said there is no need to study it, and prolonging it might lead students to go to other schools, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 4-2 on Thursday to recommend a campus weapons carry bill to a study committee.
Gatherings in eleven or more New Hampshire communities will mark International Workers Day, Friday May 1, with rallies promoting the theme, “Workers over Billionaires.” Local and national organizers are calling for a day of “No work. No School. No Shopping.”
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
Lake Winnipesaukee has seen its fair share of summer youth camps converted for luxury house lots in the past two decades, but there are some local individuals and a group fighting the sale of one right now with almost a mile of undeveloped shorefront.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday granted the state’s motion to stay the New Hampshire District Court’s Jan. 27 preliminary injunction, which directed the Department of Safety and the Department of Environmental Services to take actions to reinstate the New Hampshire vehicle inspection program.
Nickenley Turenne, 24, was running from police when he was killed in a police-involved shooting on Dec. 6, 2025 because he had an order of protection filed against him by his girlfriend, Nikki Murray, who was there when it happened, according to his father Enick Turenne.
– A Republican-backed bill which would limit the types of flags that can be flown at schools is looking like it is headed to defeat.