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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 Merrimack warehouse property at the center of concern about Immigration and Customs Enforcement operating in New Hampshire is on a list of properties the federal agency wants to acquire, according to Bloomberg.
Its basic sense, going back many centuries, is “obtain” or “acquire,” with a direct object, as in get a job or get a haircut.
Convicted sexual abuser Bradley Asbury claims new evidence in the Sununu Youth Services Center, then called YDC, scandal shows the victim lied, but prosecutors say there is nothing new in the documents cited.
Republicans dispatched efforts by Senate Democrats to create enabling legislation for municipal governments to have tourists pay more for their local impacts with fees, nixed a measure to provide tariff relief to local businesses, and heavily amended a bill related to zoning for development of future utility-heavy data centers across the state.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
A group of Concord High School students left school and marched downtown chanting “No More Ice” Thursday.
On Wednesday, New Hampshire’s all-Democrat Congressional delegation sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking Secretary Kristi Noem to “swiftly acknowledge and respond to concerns expressed by the Merrimack Town Council regarding reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to establish a new processing center in the town.”
Attorney General John Formella told the governor and Executive Council that residents should not go out and have their vehicles inspected immediately as his department looks into a federal court order that halts implementation of the new law doing away with inspections
The state’s request for a superior court judge to reconsider his decision in the Rand education funding case has been denied by Judge David Ruoff.
The state says a man who alleges that he was abused while held at Mount Prospect Academy lost his right to seek justice because of the statute of limitations, but the New Hampshire Supreme Court is being asked to allow the lawsuit to go forward.
New Hampshire officers working for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement through 287 (g) agreements would not be able to wear a mask, cover their badge number, name tag or disable their body worn cameras under a bill filed by a Democratic senator that was heard Tuesday with all in-person testimony in support.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced he is calling for the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte said Tuesday she is nominating four New Hampshire individuals to a number of top positions, including to the NH Supreme Court, chair of the PUC, BEA Commissioner and the state’s child advocate.
NHFPI’s own analysis of business tax rate reductions in New Hampshire found that the business tax rate reductions cost the state about a billion dollars in revenue from 2016 to 2024.
House Democratic Leader Alexis Simpson, D-Exeter, called the shooting death Saturday of Alex Pretti by an ICE agent in Minneapolis a “tragic murder” as pressure mounts against the federal actions in Minneapolis.
New Hampshire’s ski industry is having a banner winter thanks in large part to the amount of natural snowfall, cold temperatures and a lack so far of a mid winter thaw.
Statewide zoning mandates enacted in 2025 did little to address housing affordability and risked undermining the local decision-making that is central to New Hampshire’s identity, according to a whitepaper by the New Hampshire Municipal Association.
Former Manchester Mayor Robert A. Baines, 79, who died Jan. 23, 2026, in a Boston hospital from complications after heart surgery, will be remembered in a funeral Friday at 10 a.m. in Blessed Sacrament Church, 14 Elm St., Manchester.
Patty devoted herself to many community services – reading to children with polio at Mary Hitchcock hospital, volunteering at Howe Library, the PTA, the League of Women Voters, and as a ski instructor for the Ford Sayre ski program.
The Merrimack Town Council sent a letter Friday to state and federal officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte, opposing a potential warehouse in town being purchased by ICE to house immigrants to speed up the deportation process nationwide.