CONCORD — During a lengthy debate, the state Senate turned aside bills to close the state’s background check loophole, make it easier for a judge to confiscate the guns of someone considered to be dangerous and to create a waiting period to buy a firearm.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu devoted more of his final State of the State address Thursday to what he has done in the past seven years than what he intends to do in his last year in office.
CONCORD — A bill to permit up to 15 retail stores to sell recreational marijuana to adults in New Hampshire cleared a key House committee Wednesday.
CONCORD — State and local law enforcement officials backed legislation to provide a $100,000 death benefit to the family of Bradley Haas, the New Hampshire Hospital security officer shot to death by a former patient three months ago.
MERRIMACK — Representatives of the state Department of Transportation and the firm with which the state is partnering for the upcoming F.E. Everett Turnpike widening project brought about 50 residents and town officials up to date on the plan this week.
CONCORD — Nonpartisan election advocates said allowing no-excuse absentee ballot voting would increase voter turnout and help citizens who fail to fit into the legal reasons one can vote this way under existing law.
A key House panel endorsed separate proposals sought by both gun owner rights and gun control groups Monday.
CONCORD — Wendy Fisher of Nashua said she was shocked to learn that when her 10-year-old, emotionally troubled son tried to take his life in a seclusion room at Broad Street Elementary School in Nashua in March 2023, there was no audio or video footage of the incident.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu wants to send a 15-member New Hampshire National Guard unit to support Texas’s efforts to shore up security at the southern border.
CONCORD — The family of Carol Martin, a 20-year Navy veteran, won a wrongful death claim against the U.S. Veterans Administration after she died in 2007 from a fentanyl overdose given to treat her back pain.
CONCORD — In an abrupt reversal, the House of Representatives canceled its passage of legislation (HB 102) that would allow the state and any city or town to charge up to $25 an hour to process an extensive public records request.
CONCORD — Police chiefs and state police are opposing legislation that would empower local or county officials to request independent investigations of local police department actions.
CONCORD — The state Senate endorsed legislation (SB 380) to move the state’s primary three months earlier to June starting with the 2026 election.
CONCORD — By the narrowest of margins, House Republicans pushed through a major expansion of the three-year-old Education Freedom Accounts program (HB 1665) that would make taxpayer subsidy scholarships available to families of four making up to $150,000 a year.
A bill relating to end-of-life options (HB 1283) would legalize assisted suicide, described by supporters as medical assistance in dying. Below are some of the bill’s specifics.
CONCORD — Adam Leiser of Madison said his wife, Jennifer, 42, lost 50 pounds while she wasted away with cancer, asking in vain for physicians to end the suffering before her death in March 2019.
CONCORD — State and federal authorities sent cease-and-desist letters to two Texas companies and a CEO involved in placing “thousands” of automated robocalls that used an AI-generated copy of President Joe Biden’s voice to urge New Hampshire Democrats not to vote in the presidential primary,…
CONCORD — The state’s child advocate and top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services disagreed over how to reform oversight of out-of-state residential treatment after “horrifying” conditions were found last summer at a Tennessee center for troubled children.
CONCORD — Cordelia Dubois, a first grader from Concord, joined nearly 4,000 people online in urging New Hampshire lawmakers to reject legislation that would eliminate the teaching of social emotional learning in public schools.
CONCORD — The third-ranking House Democrat endorsed Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington’s Democratic primary bid for governor Monday.
Work colleagues of slain New Hampshire Hospital Security Officer Bradley Haas urged lawmakers Friday to close a legal loophole that may have permitted a former mentally ill patient to get a gun he used in the murder.
CONCORD — A legislative move to enshrine legal abortions in New Hampshire up to 24 weeks in the state Constitution failed Thursday to clear a super-majority hurdle.
CONCORD — The state, along with any city or town could, charge up to $25 an hour for lengthy requests for public records under legislation that cleared the House of Representatives Thursday.
CONCORD — Civil libertarians and immigrant advocates outnumbered supporters during a public hearing Thursday over legislation to block a city or town from becoming a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
CONCORD — Advocates urged a state Senate committee to pass legislation (SB 359) that would have New Hampshire join 10 other states that outlaw a marriage prior to turning 18.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu said 11,000 state retirees have faced unacceptable delays and roadblocks trying to get their medications refilled since Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield took over the program on Jan. 1.
New Hampshire’s all-Democratic congressional delegation met with President Joe Biden on Wednesday and urged him to make winning the state’s four electoral votes a priority this fall.
Federal agents made only 21 arrests or encounters at the New Hampshire-Canada border during a 15-month period that ended last Dec. 31, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire that settled a lawsuit with federal officials over gaining access to this information.
CONCORD — Executive Councilor and Democratic candidate for governor Cinde Warmington of Concord said Attorney General John Formella put “politics ahead of people” when he decided New Hampshire would decline to join 22 states backing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the cur…
CONCORD — Legislative supporters have proposed to enshrine in the state Constitution a “fundamental right” for parents to raise, educate and care for their children.
CONCORD — Senate Democratic Leader Donna Soucy of Manchester has begun the 11th year of her campaign to raise New Hampshire’s minimum wage that is currently only half the average set in surrounding states.
Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess became the 10th current or former city executive to endorse former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig’s Democratic primary bid for governor Monday.
CONCORD — State prosecutors said Nashua Mayor James Donchess and three members of the Board of Aldermen illegally used a city-owned cable television station and equipment to present opposing sides of a voter referendum issue in 2021.
CONCORD — Fresh off a historic write-in victory here, the Biden-Harris campaign hired two seasoned political operatives in hopes of winning New Hampshire’s four electoral votes.
CONCORD — Former state Sen. Andy Sanborn has decided not to appeal a state hearing officer’s decision that he must sell his charity casino in Concord by July 1 or face a two-year revocation of his gaming license.
CONCORD — Looking at the record turnout in Tuesday’s Republican primary and President Joe Biden’s massive write-in win, one might surmise New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation tradition is safe heading into 2028.
CONCORD — Among the surprises in Tuesday’s presidential primary, 4% of voting Democrats wrote in former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who lost her Republican matchup with former President Donald Trump by 11%, according to vote totals announced Thursday.
New Hampshire veterans and their families who endured long waits for vital records received good news this week with the announcement that a backlog that grew to 600,000 cases nationwide during the pandemic has been cleared.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis predicts that residents will have the opportunity to vote on a marijuana legalization initiative in November.
CONCORD — Wendy Fisher of Nashua said she was shocked to learn that when her 10-year-old, emotionally troubled son tried to take his life in a seclusion room at Broad Street Elementary School in Nashua in March 2023, there was no audio or video footage of the incident.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu wants to send a 15-member New Hampshire National Guard unit to support Texas’s efforts to shore up security at the southern border.
CONCORD — The family of Carol Martin, a 20-year Navy veteran, won a wrongful death claim against the U.S. Veterans Administration after she died in 2007 from a fentanyl overdose given to treat her back pain.
CONCORD — In an abrupt reversal, the House of Representatives canceled its passage of legislation (HB 102) that would allow the state and any city or town to charge up to $25 an hour to process an extensive public records request.
CONCORD — Police chiefs and state police are opposing legislation that would empower local or county officials to request independent investigations of local police department actions.
CONCORD — The state Senate endorsed legislation (SB 380) to move the state’s primary three months earlier to June starting with the 2026 election.
CONCORD — By the narrowest of margins, House Republicans pushed through a major expansion of the three-year-old Education Freedom Accounts program (HB 1665) that would make taxpayer subsidy scholarships available to families of four making up to $150,000 a year.
