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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.
Adding selling or breeding animals with deformities that leads to suffering would be added to the state’s animal cruelty statutes under a bill that had a four-and-a-half-hour public hearing Tuesday.
A group of high school students have been fighting to change New Hampshire public schools’ curricula to incorporate a more robust climate change education.
The John Doe lawsuit filed in Cheshire Superior Court is heavily redacted, but details that have been made public match the discipline record for retired investigator James McLaughlin obtained by InDepthNH.org through a right-to-know request.
Gov. Chris Sununu said he is disappointed the plug has been pulled on a proposed 1,200 megawatt bi-directional transmission project which would have brought Canadian hydro power to New England through New Hampshire and Vermont.
Traditional homeschoolers turned out in force to oppose a bill requiring Education Freedom Account participants to take standardized tests.
A Derry woman pleaded guilty today in federal court for her role in attempting to fraudulently obtain $2.5 million in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces.
The Department of Education Commissioner should have a background in education, supporters of a bill setting the minimum requirements told a House committee Monday.
According to Jon Siegel, one of the founders of the Guild, this collaboration with Franklin Middle School is the beginning of an exploratory phase for the nonprofit – regarding potential partnerships with schools across the state.
Attorney General John M. Formella and Manchester Police Chief Allen D. Aldenberg announce that Carrie Drake, 54, has been arrested in connection with the death of Vernon Hayford, 75, in Manchester, New Hampshire Sunday morning.
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Lawmakers often do things today they know have future consequences with the attitude that will be another legislature’s challenge.
On the way home I drove by my spot and my heart sank. It was a realtor’s “For Sale” sign. All I could think of was Joni Mitchell’s song “Big Yellow Taxi” and the verse, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
The Berlin man who was taken into custody at an Applebee’s parking lot in Keene Friday with his young daughters in the car has been charged in connection with the murder of their mother, according to a press release from Attorney General John Formella.
As research opens the public eye to the numerous dangers of PFAS, or forever chemicals, pressure remains firmly on the Coakley Landfill Group, the EPA, and the state to remedy contamination from the long shut-down landfill in North Hampton and Rye.
The $8 Million program, developed in collaboration with staff from UNH Cooperative Extension, is designed to help New Hampshire Farmers who suffered significant crop losses as a result of extreme weather conditions which negatively impacted farms during 2023.
WORDS OF WISDOM: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a Ride!’ ” – Hunter S. Thompson, American author, July 18, 1937, to Feb. 20, 2005
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman in Berlin and issued an Amber Alert issued for two missing and endangered children who were last seen with their biological father Thursday night at 8 p.m.
According to the charging documents, Flore laced a batch of coffee-Oreo flavored ice cream with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a schedule I controlled drug, and stored the THC-laced ice cream with other batches of ice cream in a freezer at the Roots Café in Newmarket, New Hampshire, where the ice cream was then sold to public consumers.
Saying he cannot look the other way as serious snowmobile crashes stack up involving rentals and inexperience, Executive Councilor Joe Kenney is convening a meeting to gather information next week, while Fish and Game officials urge caution on the trails this weekend.
The harvesting of kangaroo skins to become part of sports shoes to be sold in this country has animal rights activists outraged. New Hampshire Animal Rights League recently protested this practice at Dick’s Sporting Goods at the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester.