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As pennies vanish from the American landscape, many businesses are clamoring for federal guidance on how to handle cash transactions in a penniless world.
As the New Year approached, the 400 members of the House and 24 senators proposed more than 1,140 potential bills in the form of Legislative Service Requests, or LSRs. Many deal with high-profile subjects like school funding, but a hunt through the list finds plenty of intriguing topics that don’t get as much attention.
No injuries reported following an early-morning fire on Amherst Street.
Manchester Fire, police and AMR ambulance responded to Valley Street near Cypress Street Sunday at about 6:15 p.m. for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle.
New Hampshire has never believed in kings.
From the town meeting floor to the State House, we are a state that insists power must be earned, justified, and restrained. That is why what happened this weekend should alarm every Granite Stater—regardless of party.
I’ve relied on Manchester’s public bus system for decades, beginning in 1989. Over that time, I’ve seen how effective transit planning can make daily life possible for people without cars — and how changes to routes can unintentionally leave some residents struggling to meet basic needs.
A coalition of attorneys general including NH’s John M. Formella are calling on Meta to better enforce its own policies about pharmaceutical and wellness ads on Instagram and Facebook and take additional measures to prevent AI-generated weight loss content in ads.
The Planning Board will meet on Thursday, January 8 at 6 p.m. See what’s on the agenda.
The New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office can verify that there was no sprinkler system installed in the building, and the fire alarm system was operational and activated at the time of the fire.
One person is confirmed dead, and several others injured in an early morning 3-alarm New Year’s Day apartment building fire that housed 40 people.
The grant was part of a $50 billion package awarded to all 50 states. New Hampshire’s was the largest grant received among all New England states. The federal money will go towards a planned five-year program run by the newly created Governor’s Office of New Opportunities & Rural Transformational Health (GO-NORTH).
This 117 mile long river supplies water to over 600,000 residents along its shoreline including Manchester and Nashua. The Abenaki, Wabanaki and Pennacook Peoples have protected its watershed for over 10,000 years.
When Governor Kelly Ayotte says New Hampshire is “number one across the board,” the line travels faster than fact. It looks great in national talking points — but it doesn’t match what families, teachers, and taxpayers feel every day in Manchester, Nashua, and communities across our state. Here, the gap between headline and reality is not abstract. It shows up in school budgets, tax bills, and choices families are forced to make.
Most families would just take on the duties of caring for their disabled loved one not knowing that there may be other options, even if it’s a sacrifice for the family member providing the care, but in providing home health services in place of a home health aide, that family member is deserving of financial compensation for their time.
Starting next year, New Hampshire school districts must tell voters what they spend on students, teachers, and administrators before a vote on the annual school budget. A Christian advocacy group is urging the public to sue if districts fail to do so.
At the start of 2025, fresh off an election that snuffed any hopes of legalizing recreational marijuana in New Hampshire, advocates turned toward the plant’s medical use.
Did you buy beef for yourself, your family or friends to consume between Aug. 1, 2014, and Dec. 31, 2019? You may be eligible for part of a $87.5 million settlement.
Building a detention facility in Merrimack would make our town complicit in cruelty and human rights abuses. These facilities operate by warehousing human beings, often for months or years, under harsh conditions that dehumanize and traumatize adults and children alike. Detention has been shown to cause lasting psychological harm, particularly to asylum seekers and survivors of violence. No community that values dignity, fairness, and the rule of law should accept this.
A fire sparked by an unattended candle gutted a Grove Street residence Saturday.
