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By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

You may be asked to wear a mask the next time you visit a New Hampshire hospital or health care facility. The New Hampshire Hospital Association said Wednesday the change comes as hospitals are nearly full due to an increase in respiratory illnesses...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Charities would no longer have to give up some of their winnings in rent payments to the casinos they partner with under a bill that passed in the House Thursday.Senate Bill 112, which cleared the House on a voice vote, would prohibit casinos from...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire House passed a bill to ban gender-affirming procedures for minors Thursday, in a 199-175 vote that edges the bill closer to Gov. Chris Sununu’s desk.House Bill 619 would prohibit a doctor or other health care professional from...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

As Concord Casino owner and former state Sen. Andy Sanborn awaits a decision on the fate of his state gaming license, an affidavit and emails he and his wife, state Rep. Laurie Sanborn, exchanged with financial consultants raised questions about their...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Federal officials are raising concerns about New Hampshire and eight other states they say are leading the country in terminating Medicaid coverage for children now that pandemic protections have ended. According to the Centers for Medicare and...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

 Following the completion of a new master plan for the Mount Washington summit, the state Division of Parks and Recreation has issued a request for qualifications for a future assessment and recommendations for improvements. The 52 acres on the summit...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Beverly Cotton had lived in Weare for more than 30 years. But it took retirement – and the disruption of COVID-19 – for her to take interest in her town’s elections.By then she had cast her ballot in countless elections – local, state, and federal....

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state’s health care industry had to get creative after the pandemic exacerbated pre-existing workforce shortages, doubling the vacancy rate for nurses and LNAs between 2019 and 2022, according to the New Hampshire Hospital Association.Employers...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

The state’s Fish and Game Department will hold two biennial hearings this month, an opportunity for the general public to offer input on any aspect of the agency’s operations.The hearings, which are held every other year, will take place on:Tuesday,...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Until last week, the Department of Health and Human Services was facing a lawsuit from two people who said the state had put them at severe risk of entering a nursing home by providing them less in-home care than it had deemed necessary.In one case, a...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

For the fifth time in three years, the four Republicans on the Executive Council voted Wednesday to reject contracts with three organizations that had provided the majority of the state’s low-cost basic reproductive health care, such as cancer...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state’s new secure facility for at-risk youth won’t have more than 18 beds, as lawmakers demanded, but it will be bigger and cost more than the $21.6 million budgeted. That’s largely due to the needs of the teenagers who will be there, according...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire is sending too little state money to its public schools and is violating the state’s constitution, a superior court judge ruled Monday, in a groundbreaking decision that could significantly change education funding and require the state...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

It’s the position of the National Association of Medical Examiners that all overdose deaths should be autopsied. Specifically, the organization says that “external examination is an inadequate substitute for autopsy for the purposes of detecting and...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Executive councilors on Wednesday will vote on a request to extend contracts for The Doorway, the state’s hub and spoke approach to addressing substance use disorders. The Doorway is made up of nine locations throughout that state, each intended to...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

A Raymond woman was in the midst of her pregnancy when her private well tested positive for arsenic at 43 parts per billion. New Hampshire’s maximum contaminant level for arsenic in drinking water is 5 parts per billion.The woman received the...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Long before the conversation, Michelle Cilley Foisy had known her child Jack was not happy.Jack had withdrawn since the outbreak of COVID. They had experienced intense migraines since January, and had shared thoughts of suicidal ideation since...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on Monday echoed Gov. Chris Sununu’s calls for increased border patrol funding for New Hampshire, citing an increase in migrant encounters in Vermont and New Hampshire. Shaheen also narrowed the number of encounters that could have...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire is outpacing the country in an unfortunate category: the decline in students attending its colleges.The number of students enrolled full time in the state’s public colleges and universities dropped 13.6 percent from 2019 to the 2022-2023...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

Climate change activists gathered near New England’s last running coal power plant in Bow on Sunday to call for its owners to stop burning fossil fuels and transform the plant into a renewable energy facility.Eight people were arrested after paddling...