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By TODD BOOKMAN

Gamblers at New Hampshire casinos will soon be able to place wagers as high as $50 on games including blackjack and roulette, after Gov. Chris Sununu signed SB 120 into law earlier this week.Starting July 1, the current cap of $10 per wager will be...

By Paul Cuno-Booth

New Hampshire will soon extend Medicaid coverage for new mothers to a full year, one of several provisions in the newly signed state budget that aim to improve maternal and child health.Currently, postpartum coverage in New Hampshire lasts only 60...

By KATE DARIO

A recent cyberattack exposed the personal information of more than 2 million current and former Harvard Pilgrim Health Care customers, including in New Hampshire. But it has also interfered with the insurer's ability to pay out medical claims, and...

By ADRIANA MARTINEZ-SMILEY

As spring winds down and summer emerges, cyanobacteria season is also kicking into gear. While more people set foot into New Hampshire’s lakes and ponds, local environmental advocates are trying to find ways to mitigate and remove cyanobacterial...

By JOSH ROGERS

Gov. Chris Sununu says he's leaning against running for a fifth term.In an appearance on Boston's WEEI radio Friday, Sununu said it was likely he'd be "out of here" in 18 months. But Sununu also indicated any final decision on a possible 2024 run...

ByPAUL CUNO-BOOTH

A report commissioned by Catholic Medical Center in Manchester recommends changes to the hospital’s leadership structure and oversight practices, after a Boston Globe investigation last year documented repeated failures to act on concerns about a top...

Staff Report

A judge has found a 17-year-old from Weare guilty of violating New Hampshire's Civil Rights Act for his role in a racist graffiti incident at John Stark Regional High School last year.According to court documents, the teenager was one of three...

By TODD BOOKMAN

In a chilly warehouse in North Haverhill on a recent morning, a team of men wielding chainsaws and knives efficiently turn a hog carcass into chops, loins and cuts that will soon end up on restaurants tables and supermarket cases across this part of...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission has approved a plan from the utility company Unitil to build a solar array. The company says it’s set to be the largest in the state.Unitil spokesperson Alec O’Meara said the company plans to begin...

By TODD BOOKMAN

The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking into how one of its employees also, until this week, held elected office as a New Hampshire state lawmaker, an agency spokesperson told NHPR.The VA says Benjamin Bartlett has been employed with their...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH 

State officials say they will need up to two years to fully eliminate wait times for inpatient mental health treatment, after a federal judge ruled New Hampshire must stop holding patients in psychiatric distress inside emergency rooms.A group of...

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

The town of Harrisville, N.H., has filed a complaint at the Public Utilities Commission against Eversource, saying the utility company has violated disclosure requirements in the state’s community power law.Harrisville is starting a community power...

By SARAH GIBSON

Republicans across the country are rallying around efforts to enshrine “parental rights” into state and federal law. In Congress, a GOP-backed measure would give parents the right to inspect all curriculum in school, speak at school board meetings,...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

Like so many others of its kind, the Circle Program — a summer camp and mentorship program for girls in the greater Concord and Lakes Region area — was closed in 2020.When it partially reopened the following summer, Executive Director Beth Dever...

By JOSH ROGERS

During a visit to St. Anselm College on Friday, environmental activist and vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. told a capacity crowd that he’s considering a presidential run.“I’m thinking about it, and I’ve passed the biggest hurdle, which is my wife...

 By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

It’s been three years since New Hampshire officials announced the state’s first confirmed case of COVID-19.While the virus hasn’t gone away, the pandemic now looks starkly different than it did in March 2020 — when the governor declared a state of...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

New Hampshire’s practice of temporarily boarding mental health patients in hospital emergency departments is an illegal seizure of the hospitals’ property that disrupts care for other patients in need, a federal judge has ruled.In an order issued Feb....

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

As drug deaths rise in New Hampshire, a new mobile service aims to make it easier for people to get life-saving supplies like the overdose-reversal medication naloxone.The New Hampshire Harm Reduction Coalition recently launched what it’s calling its...

By JOSH ROGERS

Former President Donald Trump is returning to New Hampshire Saturday to speak at the New Hampshire Republican Party’s annual meeting in Salem. It will be his first visit to the state — and one of his first major campaign appearances at all — since he...

By TODD BOOKMAN

Catholic Medical Center has hired an outside law firm with experience in the healthcare industry to review its cardiac surgery unit, following a Boston Globe Spotlight investigation that raised concerns about a former CMC surgeon with one of the...