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By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
When it rains over a landfill, water trickles through the waste, picking up contaminants in the trash and forming a polluted liquid called leachate.Lawmakers will consider a bill next session that would create more comprehensive requirements around...
By ETHAN DeWITT
The new law that will require hard proof of voter ID and citizenship to vote in New Hampshire just barely took effect – six days after the Nov. 5 general election.But already, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are seeking to change it this...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
North Country advocates are asking a legislative committee to object to the Department of Environmental Services’ proposed updates to its landfill rules, arguing they aren’t protective enough and were overly shaped by industry interests.The Joint...
By ETHAN DeWITT
New Hampshire school districts will be hit with a spike in costs for special education this year due to higher than usual costs per student, according to the state Department of Education.And the state’s special education aid fund – which is supposed...
By ETHAN DeWITT
New Hampshire’s education freedom account program grew by 12 percent over the past year, the Department of Education announced Thursday. But as Republican lawmakers seek to expand the program and potentially remove all income limits, Democrats...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN and ETHAN DeWITT
A week past Election Day, a clearer picture has emerged of legislative priorities, voter turnout, and results ranging from Executive Council seats to a proposed constitutional amendment.Both parties – Republicans with bolstered control and Democrats...
By ETHAN DeWITT
As Democrat Joyce Craig and Republican Kelly Ayotte hone their final pitches to voters over who should be the next governor, one topic has proven particularly contentious: taxes.Craig has assailed New Hampshire Republicans’ moves to repeal the...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
The next governor will inherit a statewide child care crisis that has persisted despite recent state and federal investments totaling more than $160 million. And to tackle it, she will get a tight budget that’s lost two key revenue streams: millions...
By ETHAN DeWITT
Joyce Craig and Kelly Ayotte made many economic differences clear during a debate Tuesday. Ayotte, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, applauded the elimination of the interest and dividends tax next year, while Craig, the Democratic nominee, said...
By ETHAN DeWITT
Denis Murphy Jr. styles himself as a down-the-middle kind of guy. As Winchester’s town moderator, he’s had to be, he says. “I try to remain neutral, and I try to hear all sides and make sure that everybody has a voice,” Murphy said in an interview.As...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
Living on Arlington Pond in Salem, Republican Rep. Lorie Ball saw the state’s cyanobacteria problem up close. The blooms, and frustration from neighbors, led her to sponsor a bill to stem the fertilizer runoff that can feed them.That bill made a rare...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
Local Planned Parenthood officials joined their national counterparts Wednesday in raising concerns about vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s assurances that he and former President Donald Trump would defund the organization, including its...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
Lawmakers are scheduled to take up a bill Wednesday that would require death certificates to include the deceased’s recent immunizations – regardless of whether there was evidence the vaccine had contributed to the death. That data would then be made...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
Some surface waters and associated wetlands near a Seacoast Superfund site have an “unacceptable added risk” from accidental ingestion, according to a new risk assessment from the Environmental Protection Agency.In the risk evaluation dated in...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
The five-year journey Ed Mezzanotte and his wife, Lorraine, traveled before she lost her life to Alzheimer’s disease in August was marked by heartache, fear, loss, and tragedy. Lorraine wandered from home in the wee hours and vacillated between...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
Merrimack has paid a steep price to clean up PFAS pollution in its public drinking water. A lawmaker said Friday she hopes that doesn’t mean the town will miss out on funds from massive lawsuit settlements from manufacturers of the “forever...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
State officials on Wednesday approved a new buyer for a 217-acre parcel in Laconia that’s proven hard to sell. But the buyer has two years to close, and the project may begin with commercial development, not the housing city officials say is...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
A 38-year-old hiker who injured her leg and could not continue on. A 56-year-old man who had a medical emergency on a remote trail. A 70-year-old who slipped and injured her ankle while hiking. These are just a handful of the hikers who needed the...
By ETHAN DeWITT
When Kansas passed a law requiring all voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, the effects were swift.Three years after the law took effect, 31,089 voter registration applicants – 12 percent of all applications – were...
By CLAIRE SULLIVAN
In early June, officials from the Department of Environmental Services made an unannounced visit to the landfill in Bethlehem, a small, northern New Hampshire town near the Vermont border.They came to review records related to leachate – the “trash...
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