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By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The four offers the state received for the 220-acre former Laconia State School property ranged widely, from a request for the state to donate the site for community sports fields to proposals of multi-use developments, each with a unique focus. One...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

While lawmakers have filed over 800 bills addressing big issues such as abortion, education reform, climate change, and parental rights, their top priority will be passing a budget by July.Gov. Chris Sununu, whose proposal is due by Feb. 15, has...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state’s purchase of Hampstead Hospital last year for a behavioral health campus cost the town of Hampstead nearly $178,000 in annual property taxes. An item before the Executive Council Wednesday would replace that full amount with federal money...

By ETHAN DEWITT

A lawsuit brought by state teachers unions and the ACLU of New Hampshire against a law banning certain instruction in the classroom around race, gender, and equity will move forward to trial, after the U.S. District Court rejected an attempt to...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Efforts to legalize cannabis in New Hampshire are coming back this legislative session, after years of legislative defeats.Lawmakers have tried simple legalization bills and complex legislation. Both approaches have crashed against opposition in the...

By AMANDA GOKEE

The Mink Hills in Warner have returned to forest, where hemlock, oak, and beech trees now make their home, replacing the early settlers who clear-cut this land to make way for sheep pastures.John Bassi is working to make sure these residents – the...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Persuasive research papers are a yearly assignment in David Scannell’s English classes, and grading them is part of the job. But last school year, the Milford High School teacher faced a new challenge.The New Hampshire Legislature had passed a law in...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Individuals and families have just a few days left before the Jan. 15 deadline to sign up for free or low-cost health insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace. Insurance officials have been concerned that the public does not know more...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire lawmakers are weighing a bill to end the state’s tradition of open primaries by requiring residents to register with a political party at least four months before the state primaries in order to vote in that primary. House Bill 101 would...

By ETHAN DEWITT

A trio of Republican House lawmakers are pushing to raise the entry requirements for candidates in New Hampshire party primaries, requiring significantly more money or signatures to get onto a primary ballot.But the measure has attracted opposition...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

A recent federal rule change will expand access to abortion care by allowing pharmacies, no longer just clinics, to dispense abortion pills, which can be used to terminate a pregnancy up to 11 weeks. But it’s local providers who may give even greater...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Lawmakers know the Department of Health and Human Services will not meet its March 1 deadline for closing the Sununu Youth Services Center and replacing it with a smaller, more therapeutic setting for at-risk youth. The question will be whether they...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire’s schools are spending more per student than ever before, in part because of an increase of federal COVID-19-related funding.New figures released by the state’s Department of Education Friday show that the schools spent about 5.24...

By AMANDA GOKEE

New Hampshire Hunger Solutions will receive around $250,000 to do outreach about nutrition assistance programs, as participation lags.The funding comes from the government spending bill recently signed into law, which included $111 million for New...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

A Newmarket lawmaker has withdrawn a bill that would have added as much as a $15 hourly charge to search for, redact, and provide public records requested under the state’s right-to-know law. Currently the law allows public offices to charge only for...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire House voted down two attempts to allow for remote participation in the House, keeping in place pre-pandemic rules that require a physical presence for floor votes and committee hearings.On a roll call vote Wednesday, the House...

By ETHAN DEWITT

House Speaker Sherman Packard will launch special legislative committees on housing and child care next year, bringing new focus to two persistent issues for the state.The special committees will join the House’s 24 existing standing committees and...

By AMANDA GOKEE, ETHAN DEWITT and ANNMARIE TIMMINS

It’s a new legislative year and a new Legislature, and once again New Hampshire’s lawmakers have carved out a daunting workload. The House and Senate will take up more than 800 unique bills this year.Lawmakers are likely to spar over many of the same...

By AMANDA GOKEE

In the 30 years Greg Berger has been farming, he’s seen the slow creep of climate change, as the frost that used to come in September now arrives in October. Rains have grown stronger and more erratic. Once infrequent, drought has become a persistent...

By AMANDA GOKEE

Before Anne Jennison began publicly telling Abenaki stories rooted in her heritage, she went to her parents to ask permission.Jennison knew that telling these stories would “out” her parents, revealing that at least one of them had Abenaki heritage....