New Hampshire Government News

The New Hampshire Senate's budget committee voted Friday to require hospitals to participate in a managed care network by July 1 if they want state compensation for charity care.

Concord - During debate on establishing a state minimum wage in the State Senate today, Republican Senator Jeb Bradley refused to say if he supported any minimum wage for New Hampshire workers at either the state or federal level.

Young Republicans and young Democrats come together to oppose Voter ID restrictions being debated in the NH Legislature.

There are a scant few graduation speeches we can remember over the years. The ones which do linger in our minds are the ones which, sadly, went too long and sounded more like long-winded sermons than career advice.

Vanity plates are very popular in New Hampshire, but there are restrictions on what can be expressed on the plates.

New Hampshire Democratic Party Communication Director Harrell Kirstein released the following statement on the New Hampshire Republican Party's embarrassing attacks on members of their own Republican caucus and legislation they sponsored, SB152.

New Hampshire officials have concluded that air pollution standards were not violated when two buildings were burned down at the Balsams Resort last January as part of a renovation.

Beginning to hammer out a proposed spending plan, the Senate budget writers tentatively returned to its original form the "UNIQUE" scholarship program for needy students, which had been, in effect, raided in recent budgets for use for general university purposes.

Hanover Police said they responded to complaints of "strange-acting" raccoons in town last week.

Abortion clinics are not licensed, inspected or regulated by the state in New Hampshire, but Rep.

The study modeled nitrogen inputs from Non-Point Sources, which is to say, it didn't count outflow from waste water treatment plants.

U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., announced Friday that the N.H. National Guard will receive $535,000 to support the guard's Deployment Cycle Support Program .

Concord New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Jennifer Horn today blasted Governor Maggie Hassan for trying to impose a new tax on New Hampshire's hospitality industry.

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The New Hampshire Departments of Environmental Services and Fish & Game will be performing the milfoil survey and fish sampling/counting at Naticook Lake.

A heavily-funded national conservative group, American Future Fund, "is coming to the aid of New Hampshire Sen.

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Nicholas A. Toumpas, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, will speak to the Amherst and Milford Democrats on Thursday, May 23, at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 20 Elm St., Milford.

Just two years after lawmakers came close to pulling New Hampshire out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Legislature is on track to sign off on a 45 percent reduction in the nine-state region's cap on carbon dioxide emissions.

Officials at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services are urging residents to be aware of their hepatitis risk during Hepatitis Awareness Month.