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By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

New Hampshire’s two U.S. House members broke from most of their party in supporting legislation to detain immigrants charged with crimes such as theft and shoplifting.

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

A new year, a new governor, and a new Legislature – but many energy debates in New Hampshire remain the same headed into the next administration and season of lawmaking.

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Among New Hampshire’s most treasured natural beauties are its lakes. But those water bodies face a number of mounting stressors: climate change, pollution runoff, aging dams, cyanobacteria blooms, and more.Some of those challenges will be the focus of...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Researchers at Plymouth State University will use a two-year, $192,000 federal grant to look at almost a century of snowpack data in the Northeast and create the first “Snow Drought Index” in the nation.The index “will look at measurements of depth...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

The state institutions involved in energy – setting policies, watching over utilities, advocating for ratepayers – are poised to face questions from lawmakers in the legislative session that begins next month.Chief among those questions, and...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Lawmakers will have a chance to override more than a dozen vetoes from Gov. Chris Sununu when they convene for “Veto Day” on Oct. 10.If a vetoed bill receives a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate, it becomes law over the governor’s...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

While bloom notices piled up ahead of Labor Day weekend, Gov. Chris Sununu claimed at an Executive Council meeting held in Wakefield last week that cyanobacteria are “not toxic.” But scientists have found that cyanobacteria, especially blooms,...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Some seafood purchased at a Portsmouth seafood market in May 2022 met an unusual fate.Instead of getting fried up, three filets each of haddock, salmon, tuna, and cod, three lobster tails, and some shrimp and scallops were transported by researchers...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Outside the Urban Forestry Center in Portsmouth in late May, a peaceful evening dotted with sparse clouds concealed the upheaval inside.Dozens of residents packed into a wood-paneled room lined with posters and rows of chairs to hear officials from...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

A recent study of New Hampshire mothers led by a Dartmouth researcher found that mothers with higher PFAS levels were at greater risk of stopping exclusive breastfeeding early. Experts recommend infants be exclusively breastfed for the first six...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a Republican-led bill this month that would have brought greater transparency to use of public comments in rulemaking and, according to one of its sponsors, formalized existing processes into law. Sununu wrote in his veto...

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Consensus in politics can be rare, but on one issue, the gubernatorial candidates say they agree: The state should not allow a landfill to be built just half a mile from a pristine North Country lake.But, in interviews with the Bulletin, they split on...

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 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...