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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.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the State House on Sunday for a “Not My Presidents Day Rally” hosted by NH 50501, to voice concerns about the Trump Administration’s agenda and actions taken by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) locally and nationally,
House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R-Auburn), Deputy Majority Floor Leader Juliet Harvey-Bolia (R-Tilton), and Representative Steven Bogert (R-Laconia) released the following statement, eulogizing State Representative Harry Bean, who passed away in the morning of February 14th, 2026.
The vehicle inspection program is suspended until further notice, but drivers are still responsible under current law to ensure “that any vehicle driven in New Hampshire is safe to operate, regardless of the status of the inspection program.”
UPDATED: Todd Lyons, Acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Thursday that Department of Homeland Security officials spoke with Gov. Kelly Ayotte about the proposed immigrant detention center for Merrimack before she publicly acknowledged knowing about the plan, which she immediately denied in a news release.
Children would no longer be required to have a Hepatitis B vaccine to attend schools and daycares after the House Thursday initially approved House Bill 1719.
Restoring the structure of the selection of the Youth Development Center child abuse claims administrator to the state’s Supreme Court was supported by all who testified Thursday, including several victims and their lawyers.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
The House defeated a proposal to require Education Freedom Account students evaluation results be reported to the Department of Education.
Another public hearing was held Thursday morning at the State House for House Bill 121, regarding school district financial requirements and district probation processes.
Accusations of harassment, doxing and retaliation – as well as harrowing personal stories about domestic and sexual violence – dominated a lengthy hearing Wednesday on a bill that would form a legislative commission to investigate the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
A federal grand jury has refused to indict six congressional Democrats, including Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, D-NH, for a short video they made last November telling members of the military they should not follow “illegal orders,” Goodlander confirmed Wednesday.
The House Environment and Agricultural Committee held a public hearing on Wednesday for House Bill 1138, which aims to limit the placement of out-of-state waste going into landfills in New Hampshire.
Within 90 days, all law enforcement in the state will have real-time bail information at their fingertips, thanks in part to a contract approved Wednesday and the lessons the state learned following the murder of a 25-year-old Berlin woman last summer.
Banning the construction of new mega data centers for a year would give lawmakers time to study their effects on a small state like New Hampshire, a House committee was told Wednesday.
Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Will, 59, of Loudon was confirmed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, replacing the retiring Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi who retired at the age of 70.
It took a “hot second” for the Republican majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee to recommend killing a comprehensive bill to legalize, regulate and tax the sale of cannabis in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Advocates for the Derry Rail Trail will get a bicycling and pedestrian tunnel, as originally planned, under a six-lane access road being built to serve the new Exit 4A off Interstate 93 in North Derry, according to a settlement announced Tuesday.
The House Education Committee continued its public hearing Tuesday on House Bill 1121, which seeks to define the cost of an adequate education for students attending schools throughout the state.
The Senate Education Committee Tuesday made quick work of bills that would require enhanced legislative oversight of the Education Freedom Account program killing them immediately after the public hearings.
How can the state Legislature help to save local news and news outlets?
A bipartisan subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee – several of them former reporters – grappled with that question Monday while considering a bill to grant a tax credit to businesses that advertise in local newspapers and broadcast outlets.