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The New Hampshire State Police – Marine Patrol is assisting in the search for an adult female at Big Island Pond in Atkinson.
But in recent years, the New Hampshire legislature has been attempting what was once the unthinkable in our Granite State, trying to upend once precious “local control.”
Gov. Kelly Ayotte is among 26 Republican governors backing President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed federal Department of Government Efficiency initiative.
This estimate highlights the significant and ongoing economic impact of the pandemic on the Granite State.
He was elected in 1970 as a Merrimack County commissioner, then went on to run for Executive Council, where he served for over two decades. After serving for 24 years, he ran and won a seat on the Merrimack County Commission again, serving until 2022.
Podcast producer Roger Wood unpacks the complex controversy regarding Jim Hewitt, target of an attempt to remove him from the Portsmouth Planning Board.
He was arrested on Dec. 27, 2023 and charged with Aggravated Felonious Sexual Assault-Pattern and Indecent Exposure. The victims were unrelated, but both attended the same daycare in Hartford’s mother’s house.
Jurors heard testimony Wednesday from police detectives and state criminologists who searched in 2022, not for Harmony, but for evidence of her death. Adam Montgomery’s murder trial has been going for a week in the Hillsborough Superior Court — North in Manchester, and prosecutors focused on the physical evidence available in a case that does not have a body.
A plan by a former Dartmouth computer science professor to regulate state agencies’ use of artificial intelligence met opposition from the head of the state information technology department saying more flexibility is needed.
It did not take long for immigrants’ rights defenders, peace groups, and faith leaders to register opposition to Gov. Chris Sununu’s request for $850,000 to fund the dispatch of New Hampshire National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) is advising consumers not to eat certain foods that contain dairy products made by Rizo-Lopez Foods, Inc. A national outbreak of Listeria infections has been linked to cheese made by this company.
Megan Tuttle, president of the NEA — NH, and the organization’s lobbyist, Brian Hawkins, speak to the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday in opposition to House Bill 1353, which would grant the Department of Education Commissioner subpoena authority.
The House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee voted ought to pass on a bill that would legalize marijuana for Granite Staters. HB 1633 would put in place “procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis” and “the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments.”
here was unanimous support for a bill heard Wednesday that would extend a $100,000 state death benefit to the family of Bradley Haas, killed while unarmed and working as a security guard at New Hampshire Hospital on Nov. 17, 2023.
Today, Mayor Jay Ruais delivered his first “State of the City” address. He specifically chose to address the issue of homelessness.
The time is right to pause any new landfill permits, a House committee was told Tuesday as the state grapples with new rules, a new 10-year solid waste plan and outdated laws and regulations that have turned New Hampshire into a dumping ground for surrounding states.
This request comes after Sununu last year requested and obtained $1.4 million for the Northern Border Alliance Program for state police, local police, border patrol and fish and game to work together on New Hampshire’s border with Canada.
Ian Freeman, 43, of Keene, was ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Laplante to pay restitution totaling $3,502,708.69 to 29 victims of his offense.
The Montgomerys, both drug addicts at the time, became homeless in late November, 2019 when they were evicted from their Manchester apartment. The couple then lived in their Chrysler Sebring with Harmony and her two young step-brothers, according to prosecutors.
Burgess BioPower, the wood-fired power plant in Berlin, has terminated the Power Purchase Agreement governing the sale of power to Eversource and is filing for bankruptcy, according to a Burgess news release.
Attorney General John M. Formella and Concord Police Chief Bradley C. Osgood announce that Jesse James Sullivan (age 31) of Concord, New Hampshire has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of his half-brother Zackary Sullivan (age 19) who died in Concord on January 16, 2024.
“I still care about him, because he’s the father of my children, he was my best friend, it’s been hard for me to let go,” Kayla Montgomery said.
Childcare expenses can be devastating for parents of young children. They often have to make the choice between paying for daycare or staying home.
The money for the EFA program comes from the Education Trust Fund, which was established about 25 years ago to pay the adequacy aid to school districts after the Claremont education decisions by the state Supreme Court.