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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After months of speculation that he may seek a White House bid, Gov. Chris Sununu announced Monday that he will not run for president in 2024. It’s a sharp change of tune for Sununu, who has publicly discussed his potential run for president in the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chris Sununu will celebrate his 50th birthday by turning over his seat in New Hampshire’s corner office. For a while, he thought the best birthday present would be going from a four-term state leader to President of the United States.Instead, he’ll...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Members of New Hampshire’s National Guard will be deployed to the Southern Border in Texas, after the legislature authorized $850,000 in funding Friday. Governor Chris Sununu asked the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee for the funding after he...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Governor Chris Sununu is not shy when it comes to presenting New Hampshire as the “envy of the nation.” He’s said it in speeches in Concord, on national television and once again in his final State of the State address.“Our economy was ranked as the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

It is Chris Sununu’s last term in the state’s corner office. The four-term governor announced Wednesday that he will not be running for reelection in 2024. This is not the first race Sununu has opted out of this year. He announced last month that he...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

For years, advocates pushing for marijuana legalization have highlighted that when it comes to policy, the live-free-or-die state stands on an island. With Maine and Massachusetts legalizing marijuana in 2016 and Vermont following suit in 2020, the...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Over the objections of child advocates, a House committee voted Wednesday to reduce the number of offenses that would make a juvenile eligible for detention at the Sununu Youth Services Center. They warned rather than help juveniles, the law change...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After most New Hampshire mayors called for a better state response to the ongoing homelessness crisis, Gov. Chris Sununu, members of the Department of Health and Human Services, and select legislators will meet with city officials to discuss...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

More than half of New Hampshire mayors have called for additional state funding and support to deal with the “immediate” homelessness crisis following the death of a woman and the birth of a baby in a freezing tent in Manchester last month.The letter...

By RAY DUCKLER

Mark Patterson of Weare had it all figured out.Fresh off six-years of service in the Navy, he’d then finish his business degree at what was then called New Hampshire College. He’d be a college graduate, the first member of his family to do so.He’d...

By ALLIE MORRIS

It’s now legal to carry a concealed, loaded gun in New Hampshire without a license. In his first bill signing since taking office, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed so-called constitutional carry into law Wednesday. “It is common-sense legislation,”...

By ALLIE MORRIS

Twenty-thousand dollars is a big pay raise. That’s how much Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is making over his predecessor, after he broke with the past practice of accepting reduced pay. Sununu is set to make $132,592.30 this year, the maximum allowed...

By ELLA NILSEN 

When former Gov. John Lynch was first elected in 2004, he suggested to his wife Susan that their kids could have a sleepover in the Governor’s Mansion, also known as the Bridges House.She shot the idea down immediately. “Susan was adamantly against...