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By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

It’s no secret that New Hampshire’s headed toward leaner times. Outgoing Gov. Chris Sununu hoped to get ahead of the revenue problem by asking state agencies to reduce their budgets requests.Still, this year’s proposals totaled nearly $17 billion...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Bill Ohm, a state representative from Nashua, hopes to increase transparency in the State House by compelling his fellow lawmakers to disclose certain campaign contributions in a more timely manner.He wants legislators to report contributions of...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

New Hampshire’s consumer advocate, which represents residents and utility customers in government decisions, could be stripped of its funding and independence in the name of efficiency.Ross Berry, a state representative from Weare, filed a draft...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

When Penacook resident Brennan Bourque heard about the new, 409-space parking garage for state lawmakers to be built in downtown Concord, he wondered: In the months when the legislature isn’t in session, would members of the public be able to park...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

The budget ball is in Kelly Ayotte’s court.After 50 state agencies presented their budget proposals for the 2026-27 cycle, the governor-elect has about three months to piece together her draft spending plan and present it to the state Legislature.Her...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Earlier this year, Gov. Chris Sununu sent a message to state agencies: Decrease your budgets by about 4%. In hearings last week, department heads complied, hitting that mark on their funding proposals, but they're sending a message back: We don’t have...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jose Cambrils has had his eyes on Whitney Hill Road in Canterbury for years.He bought a 30-acre plot of land where the trees were spared from logging and wildlife roams about and another 95 acres just down the street in hopes of building a house in...

Cars and Coffee on Capitol held its last event of the season on Sunday with a variety of makes and models parked downtown. From 8 to 11 a.m. various cars rumbled in, parked with hoods up as the crowd meandered on Capitol Street in Concord. The event,...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

On the campaign trail, Kelly Ayotte championed nuclear energy. Now, a group of House Republicans are backing her quest to expand it in New Hampshire.Ten legislators, including two from the Concord area – Sen. Howard Pearl and Rep. Jose Cambrils...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Isiaka Bizumuremyi waited nine years for this moment.In Concord, over 7,000 miles away from home, he has own new apartment. Very new, in fact.The walls are still bare and the kitchen appliances had never been used. Just over a month after arriving in...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Rob Dapice was delighted to learn that housing was on the minds of most lawmakers in the State House last session. The results, though, not so much.Last session, the legislature formed the first-ever special committee on housing and filed dozens of...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Firefighting was in Dan Randall’s family. His grandfather was a fire chief, as was his dad.Randall had no doubt it would be his career path too, but he waited until he was 35 years old to get hired to a department – competition at the time was...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The state’s Legislative Ethics Committee declined to determine whether or not a new conflict of interest law would require Senate candidate Tara Reardon to recuse herself from certain legislation if she is elected next month primarily because she is...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After 20 years, Steve Shurtleff has cast his last vote as a member of the 400-member New Hampshire House of Representatives.On Thursday, colleagues and friends gathered to honor the speaker emeritus, who also held the titles of House speaker, minority...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Evelyn Miller knew people living in a kibbutz, or community, in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. When a neighboring kibbutz was attacked by Hamas, some of them ran over to help. Four of them were killed, she said.It’s part of the reason she attended a vigil on...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Matty Gregg’s story started with a movie and a bet.The 1983 film, The Terry Fox Story, chronicled 22-year-old Canadian Terry Fox as he attempted to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research after he lost his right leg to osteosarcoma.He...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

To help pay their tax bill, the second floor of John and Meredith Lunn’s Newport home is now a 600-square-foot apartment. Any source of income helps when they’re trying to pay an annual tax bill that only seems to grow year to year.In 2023, that bill...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

An attorney for state Senate candidate Tara Reardon urged the Legislative Ethics Committee to dismiss a request to decide whether a new conflict of interest law would prevent Reardon from working or voting on bills where her spouse or his firm has...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Ashley Miller loves to tell visitors about Marilla Ricker when they walk into the State Archives. Years before women had the right to vote, Ricker demanded her name be on New Hampshire ballots.She was the first female lawyer in the state and demanded...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon may have prevailed in a contentious three-way state Senate primary in the heavily Democratic Concord area, but a key test for her candidacy, and her potential first term, is still ahead.On Monday, the state Legislative Ethics Committee...