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By ETHAN DEWITT

For over a year, a group of taxpayers have waged a lawsuit against the state of New Hampshire, seeking to prove that the state’s school funding model is unfair. This month, lawyers behind that effort made an ambitious ask.In a proposed settlement...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire officials are attempting to recover $6 million in unemployment benefits that have been incorrectly paid out to Granite Staters since 2017. But how the state enforces those collections has sparked debate. Currently, residents who wrongly...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Hiring has become an emergency-level math dilemma for David Ross and the 120 people waiting for a bed at the Hillsborough County Nursing Home. Ross, the home’s administrator, can’t recruit enough nurses and LNAs with the hourly wages offered by the...

by ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire Legislature will not be holding a “Veto Day” this September, putting off the traditional day in which lawmakers decide whether to override the governor’s vetoed bills, Speaker Sherman Packard announced Friday.Instead, House and...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Where Route 16 winds north along the Androscoggin River, passing through the towns of Dummer and Errol, forests of northern spruce and fir trees surround the remote, rural roadway. There are large swaths of palustrine wetlands, like bogs, swamps, and...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

School boards, city councils, state agencies, and other public bodies will no longer be able to seal minutes from nonpublic meetings indefinitely unless they reconsider the decision at least every 10 years.Gov. Chris Sununu’s signature this week...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire State Board of Education tabled a proposal Thursday that would allow public school students to take a financial literacy course from PragerU, a conservative media organization, amid strong pushback from educators.In a voice vote, the...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire lawmakers and stakeholders will explore a state-run approach to legalizing retail cannabis in the coming months, after Gov. Chris Sununu signed a bill creating a study commission.  House Bill 611, signed into law Tuesday, establishes a...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

The state’s Department of Justice is seeking nearly $7 million in additional funds for ongoing legal expenses related to “the number of particularly complex and labor-intensive cases” in its criminal and civil bureaus.Detailing a high-volume caseload...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Come Jan. 1, new public playgrounds must have solid ground surfaces in place of wood chips or other loose covering that can be a hazard for people who use wheelchairs, walkers, canes, or other devices. Gov. Chris Sununu signed House Bill 467 into law...

by ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The research confirmed what anyone working in behavioral health, law enforcement, the courts, or jails and prisons sees: A small percentage of people with mental illness and substance use disorder return to jail so often – as many as 72 times in three...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

In the six months since the state launched a $100 million fund to settle claims with people abused at the former Youth Development Center, 92 people have requested almost $83 million. As of June, the state had resolved 11 claims for a total of $4.8...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

With Gov. Chris Sununu’s signature last week, New Hampshire has removed fentanyl and xylazine testing equipment from the definition of “drug paraphernalia” in state law.Several efforts this past legislative session sought to decriminalize what harm...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Gov. Chris Sununu signed two bills Friday related to individuals and families raising other people’s children.Senate Bill 172, sponsored by Sen. Sharon Carson, a Londonderry Republican, will allow people who take in children unrelated to them to get...

By AMANDA PIRANI

New Hampshire farmers like Danny Hicks have faced one hit after another due to abnormal weather this growing season. Hicks, who owns Sunnycrest Farm in Londonderry, said a February cold snap took out most of the farm’s stone fruit, including summer...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

In the six months since the state launched a $100 million fund to settle claims with people abused at the former Youth Development Center, 92 people have requested almost $83 million. As of June, the state had resolved 11 claims for a total of $4.8...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

The State of New Hampshire owns and operates more than 700 buildings. That number doesn’t include space it leases, like its retail liquor stores, offices, and pump stations and wastewater treatment plants. In fiscal year 2022, the state government...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire cities and towns received a clear warning in 2020: The Accuvote machines used by many communities to count ballots at elections are growing old. In a July 2020 letter to cities and towns, LHS Associates, the Salem-based vendor that sells...

 By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

The state’s Department of Energy is giving economically disadvantaged public schools a better chance at accomplishing energy efficiency projects, as part of an effort to align itself with a federal directive from President Joe Biden.A competitive...

By ETHAN DEWITT

In the years after COVID-19 arrived, foreclosures in New Hampshire dropped. That was intentional: The federal government imposed a moratorium preventing lenders from carrying out foreclosures on federally backed mortgages, and offered forbearances to...