New Hampshire Government News

Last week, the legislature of the "Live Free or Die" state failed to overturn a veto of a bill decriminalizing the medicinal use of marijuana for chronically and terminally ill patients .

Ryan Murphy, a 23-year-old, National Guardsman from Manchester, made history Wednesday in becoming the first person during the Lynch administration era to plead his case for a pardon before the Executive Council.

In May, Maine's legislature and governor made marriage equality the law of the state.

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services , the town of Raymond Planning Board and the Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission are working together to develop new zoning ordinances using recently mapped fluvial erosion hazard zones.

New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney and Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Hubbard of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Investigation Division announce that, on Oct.

State public health officials, health clinics and school officials say they will provide H1N1 flu vaccinations as soon as each shipment arrives because the risk of a widespread pandemic is very real.

A section of Route 102 West near the Interstate 93 off-ramp has been closed due to an accident.

The New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration has certified the 2009 property tax rate for Wolfeboro, and the good news is the rate is down from last year.

A person has died and two others were hospitalized after eating meat that may have been contaminated with E. coli, New Hampshire officials said.

Dr. Jose Montero, the state's top health official, wants to get the H1N1 vaccine into the arms of New Hampshire residents who need it most - and he wants to get it there quickly.

As New Hampshire's lead-poison prevention program experiences cuts in inspectors and lab staff, the state is getting a $3 million grant to create lead-safe housing.

The largest river restoration of its kind in New Hampshire is just being completed, with 2,900 feet of the Pemigewasset River restored to its original course and banks restored to their previous condition.

Some patients with brain disorders will have to find care outside New Hampshire.

WHETHER IT'S SWINE FLU , a mosquito-borne virus, recalls of tainted food, or any number of public health threats, news outlets turn to the doctor with the Colombian accent to explain the risk, or lack thereof.

The H1N1 flu never really left New Hampshire, but in recent weeks it has started to crop up again - "widespread" is the way state health officials categorize its presence as of early October - and schools are starting to feel it.

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A week after 250 New Hampshire workers got layoff notices, the state and union representing the workers are considering resuming talks over ways to cut costs - though the two sides are far apart over whether the layoffs could be reversed.

" Very Likely Democratic - " Democrat John Lynch has been a Teflon triangulator during his three terms as governor, but I do wonder whether his confrontation with public employee unions will cause him any political problems.

As layoff notices continue to go out to New Hampshire state workers, union officials say they suspect some were targeted for their union activity.

The H1N1 flu outbreak at Phillips Exeter Academy seems to have subsided. The Academy announced Oct.