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Dismas Home of New Hampshire has closed on a property in Rochester that will allow it to serve three times the amount of justice-involved women annually that it does now.
A federal appeals court in Massachusetts Friday upheld a block on President Trump’s executive order that seeks to strip babies born in the United States of their U.S. citizenship. The case is New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support v. Donald J. Trump.
The teenager who killed his sister-in-law and two young nephews three years ago in their Northfield home was sentenced Friday to 60 years-to-life in prison.
The federal government ran out of funding for many of its operations on October 1, leading to a “shutdown” of many activities. Much of the federal government will keep running, but the exact scope of services that will be put on hold until funding resumes is governed by a combination of laws and decision-making by the federal officials.
As the Board of Mayor and Aldermen moves to replace at-Large Alderman Joe Kelly Levasseur as its chair, it has both avoided the very questionable conduct of a city department head and embarked on a course of action that would place unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of elected officials.
In the fourth such event held by Manchester School District Superintendent Dr. Jenn Chmiel, and hosted by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, an overarching theme was presented that aimed to focus on a variety of recent successes with the caveat that it will take a community effort to maintain the district’s momentum.
The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance’s 2025 Seven to Save list was announced Thursday and includes both threats of demolition and opportunities for community and economic development.
That is why changes to the Medicare Advantage program over the past four years have been so unsettling. Last year alone, more than 44,000 New Hampshire enrollees, over half of our state’s Medicare Advantage population, were affected when carriers reduced plan offerings or withdrew from the market entirely.
If you have an hour or two Saturday during which you might want to make a big difference with minimum effort, you can head over to Manchester Community College to help sort massive amounts of clothing into “bundles” that will be distributed as needed to kids as they enter the New Hampshire foster care system.
Fire companies quickly controlled and extinguished the fire, preventing it from spreading beyond the kitchen. The home sustained smoke damage throughout, with heavy damage to the kitchen area.
The effects of the government shutdown will be different for everyone in New Hampshire – and the country – depending on who they are and what their plans are.
The biggest sticking point that has resulted in lack of a federal budget and the government shutdown is the high increase to health insurance premiums for millions of Americans and around 50,000 New Hampshire residents.
The New Hampshire Transit Association (NHTA), in partnership with the State Coordinating Council for Community Transportation (SCC), is proud to announce the official designation of October as Community Transportation Month across New Hampshire.
One key issue federal budget issue that has yet to be resolved are possible cuts that would severely reduce or eliminate programs that awarded millions to New Hampshire last year to help ease the housing crisis and homelessness
School districts around the state are scrambling to draft policies about whether and how to charge tuition to students enrolled in the Education Freedom Account program — students who, unlike traditional homeschoolers, are not legally entitled to free participation in district programming.
Carmen Mailloux, an employee of Cigna Healthcare, will be serving as a Community Ambassador Fellow with Light of Life Ministries through October 2025.
“This is an exciting step in our space weather readiness and understanding how the Sun controls the boundaries of our solar system and regulates the space environment where we send astronauts,” said Nathan Schwadron, professor of physics, deputy principal investigator for IMAP and the lead for IMAP-Lo instrument constructed at UNH’s Space Science Center.
From July 1, 2021 to December 31, 2024, there were approximately 89 cases disposed of in circuit court in which the Manchester Police Department charged a loitering violation. Of those 89 cases, at least 50 involved unhoused individuals (totaling approximately 56% of cases), despite unhoused people making up only around 0.5% of Manchester’s population.
“I think the thing that is most encouraging to me overall over the trajectory of the opioid epidemic is just that we have begun to see it as a challenge that we all need to address together. And we’ve begun to understand that it’s not a character failing, that it’s an illness that can be treated, that we can learn more and more about it, and learn about what works and use evidence to address the problem and make sure that we’re reducing deaths and preventing addiction to begin with. “
A variety of tax changes brought by the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will have a financial impact – much for the worse, some for the better – for many Americans.