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The failure to approve these contracts will negatively impact women’s health across the state, unintended birth and teen birth rates, and birth outcomes, according to Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Shibinette.
Police are investigating the tragedy that occurred on Interstate 89 Friday morning when two brothers were killed and their father was injured in a crash.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced emergency rules related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as the Delta variant of the virus increases and vaccination rates stagnate. The reaction was swift and divided along party lines in New Hampshire.
In addition to being on different sides of various issues, lawmakers, Republican and Democrat, are seriously divided over COVID-19 matters.
After a week that included travel to Kentucky and greeting visitors to the state last weekend on the Conway Scenic Railroad, Gov. Chris Sununu has fallen ill and is isolating as a precaution against COVID-19.
The state’s highest-ranking law enforcement officer, Attorney General John Formella, addressed the 185th New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council Academy graduation Friday, telling the new officers if they are honest and hard-working, those in state law enforcement leadership “will have your backs.”
The bill requires a minimum 10-year sentence to be imposed by judges upon conviction in such repeat cases. A maximum sentence is 30 years.
As the state reported 310 new cases of COVID-19 in the state, and children and their families prepare for a return to school in the next few weeks, Gov. Chris Sununu pushed the need to get everyone who can to be fully vaccinated, warning that the fall could be a tough new chapter of the pandemic when people head indoors.
As new cases of COVID-19 continue to grow slowly in the state, Gov. Chris Sununu and his top health staff returned to the podium for a live, televised press conference Thursday to give residents an update and to urge all those who have not been fully vaccinated to do so.
You can get just about anything you want at the New Hampshire State Surplus Auction, which will be live and in-person on Saturday, June 26 at White Farm.
Gov. Chris Sununu held his last regularly scheduled press briefing related to the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, noting that while the state has crossed the finish line on the crisis, the concerns for COVID-19 remain.
While most state employees are already back at their desks, the remaining ones who have been working from home will be returning by May 10, Gov. Chris Sununu said Thursday at his weekly news conference.
Gov. Chris Sununu said on Thursday he feels comfortable letting the temporary “thou shalt must” mandate expire on April 15 given the fact that 70 percent of residents have signed up to get a vaccine, the daily death toll has come down dramatically and hospitals have the capacity to handle more patients with adequate staffing and supplies compared to November when he imposed the executive order.
New Hampshire will offer vaccines to anyone 16 years of age and older regardless of their residency, and will begin taking appointments for all beginning April 19, Gov. Chris Sununu said at his news conference on Thursday.
Gov. Chris Sununu announced Thursday at his regular news conference that all schools grades K-12 must return to full-time, in-person learning by April 19.
Gov. Chris Sununu’s policy against vaccinating college students who are not New Hampshire residents applies to non-resident high schoolers 16 and older living at boarding schools here as well, according to his spokesman Ben Vihstadt.
In private settings, fully vaccinated people can study, worship, play cards and visit without masks or social distancing, the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
Teachers, school staff, and daycare workers can expect to be vaccinated against COVID-19 – some as early as March 12 – rather than waiting until April and May due to increased availability of COVID-19 vaccines and the rapid delivery of vaccines to date, state officials said at Thursday’s news conference.
Former congressional candidate Eddie Edwards of Dover was unanimously confirmed as assistant commissioner of the Department of Safety and Gov. Chris Sununu formally nominated his chief legal counsel, John Formella of Portsmouth, to be the next attorney general at the Executive Council meeting Wednesday.
