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By TODD BOOKMAN

New Hampshire Senate Republicans blocked an effort to enact an extreme risk protection order system, sometimes referred to as a “red flag” law.The proposal up for debate Thursday would have allowed someone’s relatives or law enforcement to petition a...

By HANAN BABIKIR BEDRI

Hanan Babikir Bedri, MS, MA, is the executive director of the New Hampshire Public Health Association. This year, House Bill 1213, an act that pertains to immunization requirements for private schools and childcare agencies, was introduced. The bill...

By RICHARD MOORE

Richard Moore lives in Chichester. A couple dozen of my middle-income baby boomer Medicare friends and I have been contemplating our potential Long Term Care (LTC) needs over the next few years. The middle-income Medicare LTC outlook appears bleak and...

By DAN ATTORRI

Their best skier fell on his first run of the day. One lost a pole. Two more missed a gate. But those circumstances didn’t define them.Senior Harrison Wilson won the giant slalom in the morning, junior Merrick Chapin won the slalom in the afternoon...

Ski JumpingState championshipKey players: MV – Mychal Reynolds (3rd), Austin Valliere (13th), Wyatt King (18th); Concord – Sebastian Christie (12th); Hanover – Schuyler Clapp (1st), Jai Gregory (2nd)Highlights:  Reynolds led MV to fourth as a team and...

By JONATHAN VAN FLEET

The historic Stark Mansion that was once owned by Caleb Stark, the son of Revolutionary War General John Stark, caught fire in Dunbarton Thursday night.Fire crews from around the area responded to the home on Mansion Road around 6:30 p.m. and shuttled...

By SARAH GIBSON

Lawmakers are again considering whether to give the state’s top education official power to issue subpoenas during teacher misconduct investigations.The bill, backed by Republican lawmakers and the Department of Education, is a more tailored version...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTLAND, Maine — A coalition of environmental groups has sued the federal government to try to force the finalization of ship speed rules that the groups say are critically important to save a vanishing species of whale.The proposed ship speed rules...

By KATELYN SAHAGIAN

CONCORD — A bill named after a Litchfield woman who died in Derry was heard at the Statehouse Friday. If it passes, it could make it possible for town and county officials to ask State Police to conduct independent investigations.The House Criminal...

By HOLLY RAMER

Another attempt to enshrine abortion rights in the New Hampshire Constitution failed Thursday, this time in the Senate.State law prohibits abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy except when the mother’s health or life is in danger or there is a fatal...

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...

Let me get this straight. Gov Chris Sununu now wants to spend $850,000 to send 15 NH National Guard troops to Texas to help with border protection. Yet just last week the governor’s own Republican Party sabotaged a bipartisan bill months in the...

Names from the World War II era that remain fixed in our memories: FDR, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, etc. are today being overshadowed by a ghost from that period. A ghost by the name of Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of...

While I was preparing dinner this week I began choking and coughing to the point where my husband became concerned for my health. When I regained my composure, I explained to him that I had just heard Gov. Sununu say, on WMUR, that he will petition...

In a publicity stunt designed to distract from the failure of Congressional House Republicans to pass a bipartisan approved Senate border security bill, lame duck Governor Sununu is requesting $850,000 to send 15 NH National Guardsmen to the Texas...

In a Feb. 12 My Turn in the Monitor, Lisa Beaudoin argued that health policy should be driven by evidence-based research, not by how people feel. While that may be true, it does not mean that individuals should not have options nor that their...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Tom Tower found the decision to privatize solid waste management in New Hampshire decades ago to be a logical choice. However, with the state’s sluggish pace in updating its plan to deal with its trash and the alarming influx of waste from neighboring...

By DAVID BROOKS

The community power program continues to advance in most of the state but is facing a potential pause in three towns that are caught in an unexpected tangle over electricity rates.The Merrimack County Board of Commissioners voted in December to join...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord man who died at the scene of a head-on crash Tuesday was driving at highway speeds in a stolen car at the time of the collision, according to Concord Police. Nicholas Fletcher, 29, was driving a blue Mazda that struck a black Nissan on...

By JOE SHORT

Joe Short is vice president of the Northern Forest Center. As the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) creates the newest iteration of the state’s Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP), it must acknowledge and include the key role...