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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.
More than a dozen residents of Merrimack stood up before the Town Council Thursday night to urge the town to resist any efforts by the Trump Administration to warehouse individuals for ICE.
With the state facing a revenue deficit this fiscal year, the House Thursday approved cutting the rate of the Business Enterprise Tax.
As Minneapolis reportedly remains on edge after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a woman Wednesday, there will be a candlelight vigil Friday, Jan. 9 at 5:30 p.m. in Concord in solidarity with Renee Nicole Good and Minnesota.
A Republican priority for the legislative session was upended Thursday as the long-sought statewide cap on school district budgets went down to defeat.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
It seems like it has been an “Old long since” as the Scottish like to say. This year like most others seemed to fly by, especially if you spend much time fishing.
The House Republicans ran roughshod over public education Wednesday on the first day of the 2026 session approving a book ban while killing two bills that would have provided more free school meals to poor children.
Anyone who commits capital murder or rapes a child under 13 years old could be sentenced to life in prison at hard labor under a bill the House passed Wednesday as it began cleaning up the left over bills from the 2025 session.
Expecting a crowd larger than it can handle to address the report of Merrimack possibly hosting a warehouse for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees for up to 1,500 people, the Merrimack Town Hall will close at noon on Thursday, according to the town’s website.
House Bill 121 would allow the department to hire an administrator to oversee the district with sweeping authority to override school board decisions, make changes to day-to-day operations, cancel or renegotiate contracts and lay off or fire personn
Surrounded by close to 100 supporters holding signs from their hometowns Wednesday outside the State House, Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill, D-Lebanon, decried a bill seeking to impeach her, describing it as an attempt to silence voters.
A spokesman for Merrimack says the Town Hall is closing at noon on Thursday before a large protest against the ICE facility is planned outside at 5:30 p.m.
The Executive Council finalized a planned purchase of the entire Granite Place complex off Rumford Street in Concord for state offices. This last tranche of money is to pay for the North Building and 11.6 acres of land while the state already purchased the South Building using federal American Rescue Plan Act funding.
Senate President Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, said while 2025 was a tough year in terms of state revenue she predicted good things for the new year and beyond.
New Hampshire is losing its leader in transportation with the retirement of New Hampshire Department of Transportation Commissioner William J. Cass of Laconia after serving the department since 1986.
After a string of substantial budget surpluses, New Hampshire state government found itself in deficit at the end of the 2025 fiscal year, according to its Annual Comprehensive Financial Report dated Dec. 23, 2025.
Sen. Shaheen: “When Denmark and Greenland make it clear that Greenland is not for sale, the United States must honor its treaty obligations and respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark.”
Kodi and I are on a mission. . . a spiritual mission to honor the sun’s return. . . but also to mark a more personal moment in my own journey.
The state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) affirmed a large increase in Eversource electric bills for residential customers but threw out automatic yearly increases of $2 a month going forward, in a mixed decision handed down on New Year’s Eve.
Pamela Smart is launching a new bid for freedom, claiming dodgy transcripts doomed her to prison for her husband’s murder.