CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu said penalties eventually will be assessed against Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield for problems that state retirees have had in getting their prescriptions properly filled since the insurer took over management of the health insurance benefit on Jan. 1.
CONCORD — Without debate, the state Executive Council rejected a bid by Robert McLaughlin, 83, for a hearing on his request for a pardon of his first-degree murder conviction for the 1988 slaying of Robert Cushing Sr. of Hampton.
CONCORD — New Hampshire should join all other New England states to become part of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) that seeks to maintain accurate voter rolls and detect possible illegal voting, election reformers told a House committee Tuesday.
CONCORD — State prosecutors and lawyers representing most of the victims of sexual and physical abuse at the former Youth Development Center in Manchester announced agreement Tuesday on sweeping changes to the state’s $100 million settlement fund.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., is proposing a bipartisan bill to improve access for family caregivers through the federal 1-800-MEDICARE Hotline.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu’s plan to use state dollars to send a 15-member, New Hampshire National Guard unit to the Texas border won approval along partisan lines.
CONCORD — New Hampshire is working under a fast-approaching deadline to spend nearly $40 million in federal funding it received under the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congress passed in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Senate rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would have asked voters if they support abortion rights for a woman throughout pregnancy.
CONCORD — A $130 million-a-year package to increase state aid to public education won the bipartisan support of a key House committee Wednesday.
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 — The New Hampshire Senate rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would have asked voters if they support abortion rights for a woman throughout pregnancy.
CONCORD — A $130 million-a-year package to increase state aid to public education won the bipartisan support of a key House committee Wednesday.
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.
