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By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

When the legislative committee opened the public hearing for a bill that’d legalize cannabis in New Hampshire, no one stepped up to the microphone.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Most money from New Hampshire’s school choice program ends up at small group of Christian-affiliated religious schools and some Democrats are seeking to change that.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Hopkinton Rep. David Luneau wants to nearly double New Hampshire’s contribution to public education.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

New Hampshire is an outlier in the region when it comes to collecting abortion statistics. A bill by Sen. Kevin Avard seeks to change that.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

As the Concord Board of Education weighs where to place its new middle school, a big piece of the puzzle remains uncertain – and it isn’t up to them.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Nine Republican state representatives filed a bill this week that would make abortion illegal after 15 weeks. It includes exceptions for medical emergencies and fetal abnormalities that are “incompatible with life.”

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Newly inaugurated Gov. Kelly Ayotte ran on a promise to stifle New Hampshire’s fentanyl and opioid crises by raising the mandatory minimum sentences. She may just get her wish.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Twelve-year-old Hunter Gebo clutched a sheet of paper and dragged his gloved index finger along the sentences, reading to a crowd of about 100 people outside the New Hampshire State House.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Senate conservatives are pushing a bill that would reallocate the state’s four electoral votes, splitting them up instead of allocating them completely to whichever candidate wins the popular vote.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Anthony Foote has challenged the Bow School District twice in the past two years – once over a book he believed was inappropriate for schools, and now in a lawsuit over his pink armband protest at a girls’ soccer game.In 2025, a new law could cement...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Hundreds of students were rejected from receiving Education Freedom Accounts in 2024 because their families earned more than the program’s income limits.If Republicans have their way in the State House this session, any family, regardless of how much...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Earlier this year, New Hampshire lawmakers banned transgender girls from competing on girls’ school sports teams and prohibited some gender reassignment surgeries for minors.Those efforts will continue next year as several Republicans have filed draft...

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 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 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 ROWAN WILSON

In 2019, Kim Black and her husband Mitch Gluck moved across the country, from San Diego to New Ipswich.Black grew up on the East Coast and had been missing it.“I really wanted to come back to seasons and rural living,” she said, but “for Mitch, he...

By RAY DUCKLER

First, at 11:05 p.m., their doorbell rang like crazy, in rapid-fire succession, suggesting something was wrong.Then came pounding on their front door, along with cries for a phone. Michelle and Michael Girard raced downstairs and opened the door,...