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By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Dan Decoteau was on life support at Massachusetts General Hospital with a traumatic brain injury, hours from death, when the organ donor team asked his family to make an excruciating decision. Would they donate his organs and tissue to save other...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

New Hampshire lawmakers got the message last session. The state’s dire shortage of affordable child care options had reached crisis levels during the pandemic as providers lost staff to higher paying and less stressful jobs at retail stores and fast...

By ETHAN DeWITT

Years after the pandemic threw businesses into disarray, changing expectations around work and leading to widespread worker shortages, New Hampshire’s workforce demand is still strong. Currently, 85 percent of New Hampshire residents between 25 and 55...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

If you’re wondering what happened to your once-beautiful soil, diminished to the texture of coffee grounds, you’re not crazy. But maybe your worms are.So-called crazy worms – also commonly known as jumping or snake worms because of their quick,...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The House candidate who told the Bulletin last week that he hoped voters would look past his 1989 second-degree murder conviction has suspended his campaign. Republican Mark Edgington told the Bulletin Monday that another outlet’s reporting on his...

By ETHAN DeWITT

Centuries of English classes have connected to Lady Macbeth by scouring the monologues of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty,”...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

It took oral health advocates nearly 25 years to persuade lawmakers to provide adults on Medicaid coverage for basic dental care. Gail Brown, one of those advocates, said she saw that investment pay dividends in far less time.Brown was stopped this...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

For six years, citizen scientists have helped track New Hampshire’s changing coastline through seasons and storms.That data has helped scientists better understand the unique response of each beach to weather events: Some bounce back quickly, while...

By ETHAN DeWITT

New Hampshire cities and towns will be required to provide accessible voting machines for all elections after January 2025, according to a bill signed into law by Gov. Chris Sununu this month.House Bill 1264, signed by Sununu July 3, states that every...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

For many, summer means time to hit the beach. But maybe not any beach, if you don’t want to swim in harmful bacteria. From late May to early September, New Hampshire’s Beach Inspection Program monitors public beaches for fecal bacteria. And with...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

At a time when national Republican leaders often struggle to talk about abortion restrictions they’ve supported, the New Hampshire Republican Party is making those restrictions central to its 2024 campaign strategy.  Last week, party Chairman Chris...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Andrea Bryant lives in Bethlehem, about a mile from the landfill there. She doesn’t open her windows at night anymore because she’s often been woken up by a thick stench in her house, though the noise still rouses her most mornings.The same company...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state has granted former state Sen. Andy Sanborn’s request for at least a three-week extension to sell the casino it ordered shuttered in December following allegations he misused nearly $844,000 in federal pandemic aid to enrich himself, $181,250...

By ETHAN DeWITT

New Hampshire’s Department of Corrections is facing a temporary $3.44 million deficit caused in large part by an increase in overtime payments, according to DOC Commissioner Helen Hanks. Now, as the June 30 end of the state fiscal year approaches,...

By ETHAN DeWITT

Last year, a superior court judge delivered a jolt to the state’s education system: He ruled that New Hampshire should be paying nearly twice what it currently does per student. This year, the question is dividing the race to succeed Gov. Chris...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Dawson Hayes spent about three years in foster care before he was adopted in February at age 16. As he was moved from foster home to foster home, Hayes thought about something his state case worker had told him. Once he was adopted or aged out of...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

When a person submits a comment on a proposed regulation in New Hampshire, it’s usually not clear what influence – if any – that feedback has on the final rule. That may change under a bill heading to the governor’s desk. Agencies already must create...

By ETHAN DeWITT

After a week of negotiations, “committee of conference” season is over. House and Senate representatives had until last Thursday to cobble together last-minute agreements on any bills the two chambers disagreed over. The process allowed select...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Two years ago, the House speaker appointed a special committee to solve or at least mitigate the child care crisis in New Hampshire. There’s disagreement among lawmakers and child care advocates about its success.Committee members have sent a few...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Kangaroo ownership, rodent traps, brass knuckles. The bills you may have missed.You can continue pronouncing Concord however you like and use adhesive rodent traps, but brass knuckles remain illegal and you’ll still need a permit to adopt a...