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Although the figures change year to year, what doesn’t change is that New Hampshire state government is at the bottom of the list of states when it comes to support for public education K through 12, the same place it is for its support for higher education.
The long awaited April state revenues will not provide any optimism for Senate budget writers as they begin the grueling process of making spending fit the available money without tax increases the Republican leadership has already taken off the table.
Landowners who enroll their properties in carbon capture markets are closely watching a bill that comes up for a hearing in the Senate next Tuesday, which would tax the growth of timber.
In the State House Hall of Flags is a small and moving exhibit produced by Ashley Miller, state archivist to commemorate the 50th Anniversary to the end of the Vietnam War.
On Saturday afternoon March 9, Madison Saltsburg, age 20, fell roughly 600 vertical feet down Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington and suffered fatal traumatic injuries during the fall.
Gov. Chris Sununu may have known something was coming when he announced last year he was not going to run for an unprecedented fifth term.
On March 8, 2024, Rochester Police were notified that Joseph Russell was spotted driving in Rochester and intercepted him on Route 16 in the area of Gooseberry Circle. Police also learned that Russell had a firearm.
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that the New Hampshire Department of Justice has completed its investigation into the officer-involved shooting that took place on November 20, 2023, in Franklin, New Hampshire, in which Nate Landrebe (age 42) was shot and killed.
In January 2016, Jim Donchess was sworn in as the 56th mayor of Nashua with a vision of a thriving, caring, and renewed community – a welcoming city where everyone belongs, a healthy city with opportunity for all.
Berlin’s paper mill owners invested in their unionized work force, including by providing kindergarten for workers’ children.
A “necessary first step” for the state to close on the sale of the 220-acre former Laconia State School is on the Executive Council agenda for Wednesday, hours before the closing is supposed to occur between the state and a Manchester developer for $21.5 million.
The abbreviated season was notable in that inexperienced riders on rented sleds were involved in the majority of the at least four fatalities, far more than any other season in recent history, said Lt. Mark Ober, Jr., District One chief of the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department in Lancaster, which covers all of Coos County.
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The House Thursday voted to suspend its rules to allow a bill after the deadline to require anyone who commits a class A felony to be present during the judicial process.
Getting tough on crime, drug dealers and illegal immigrants, the state Senate passed a number of measures Thursday including a prohibition on the creation of so- called “sanctuary cities” here.
Now, Eversource wants to spend $400 million in Grafton and Coos Counties and seems to be hoping nobody, or almost nobody, will notice.
The House killed a proposed constitutional amendment that would enshrine parental rights in the state constitution.
Not only were they divided in whether or not they believed the resolution should pass, but they also revealed their own conflicting perspectives on the urgency of the climate crisis.
The attorney general’s office wants the state Supreme Court to block a judge’s order for the state to increase education funding immediately.
The bill would limit wakeboard operation to at least 500 feet from shore, in depths of water of at least 20 feet and on bodies of water greater than 50 contiguous acres in size.
Supporters of Belknap County-owned Gunstock ski area came to the House Municipal and County Government Committee Wednesday as it voted down a bill they called “predatory.”
While Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repeatedly railed against an “invasion” of migrants crossing the Rio Grande River into Texas, some residents of Eagle Pass, a border town where Abbott has taken over a city park and plans to build a new military base, are experiencing an invasion from the other direction.
But with about a month to go before the trial starts, Rockingham Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman ruled Hoopes cannot represent the state while his partner, attorney Douglas Brooks is representing one of the YDC victims in a Massachusetts criminal case, a man referred to in court records as J.D.
“Today is a big day for our team. We stuck together all season and won this election,” said Dartmouth juniors Cade Haskins and Romeo Myrthil, in a statement. “It is self-evident that we as students can also be both campus workers and union members. Dartmouth seems to be stuck in the past. It’s time for the age of amateurism to end.”