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By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Nine Republican state representatives filed a bill this week that would make abortion illegal after 15 weeks. It includes exceptions for medical emergencies and fetal abnormalities that are “incompatible with life.”

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Twelve-year-old Hunter Gebo clutched a sheet of paper and dragged his gloved index finger along the sentences, reading to a crowd of about 100 people outside the New Hampshire State House.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Senate conservatives are pushing a bill that would reallocate the state’s four electoral votes, splitting them up instead of allocating them completely to whichever candidate wins the popular vote.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Anthony Foote has challenged the Bow School District twice in the past two years – once over a book he believed was inappropriate for schools, and now in a lawsuit over his pink armband protest at a girls’ soccer game.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Each day when Courtney Eschbach walks into the New Hampshire State House, what lies ahead is anyone’s guess.She might be asked to draft election procedures and simultaneously write proposed legislation to let New Hampshire residents own pet...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Hundreds of students were rejected from receiving Education Freedom Accounts in 2024 because their families earned more than the program’s income limits.If Republicans get their wish in the State House this session, any family, regardless of how much...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Earlier this year, New Hampshire lawmakers banned transgender girls from competing on girls’ school sports teams and prohibited some gender reassignment surgeries for minors.Those efforts will continue next year, as several Republicans have...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

On election night, Republicans in New Hampshire delivered what many thought of as a slam dunk.But outgoing Gov. Chris Sununu doesn’t see Republicans’ trifecta control of the governor’s office, the House and the Senate in Concord as a free pass.The...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

New Hampshire’s consumer advocate, which represents residents and utility customers in government decisions, could be stripped of its funding and independence in the name of efficiency.Ross Berry, a state representative from Weare, filed a draft...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

It’s no secret that New Hampshire’s headed toward leaner times. Outgoing Gov. Chris Sununu hoped to get ahead of the revenue problem by asking state agencies to reduce their budgets requests.Still, this year’s proposals totaled nearly $17 billion...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

The budget ball is in Kelly Ayotte’s court.After 50 state agencies presented their budget proposals for the 2026-27 cycle, the governor-elect has about three months to piece together her draft spending plan and present it to the state Legislature.Her...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Earlier this year, Gov. Chris Sununu sent a message to state agencies: Decrease your budgets by about 4%. In budget hearings, department heads complied, hitting that mark on their funding proposals, but they're sending a message back: We don’t have...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

On the campaign trail, Kelly Ayotte championed nuclear energy. Now, a group of House Republicans are backing her quest to expand it in New Hampshire.Ten legislators – including state Rep. Keith Ammon, whe represents Lyndeborough -- signed on to a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Rob Dapice was delighted to learn that housing was on the minds of most lawmakers in the State House last session. The results, though, not so much.Last session, the Legislature formed the first-ever special committee on housing and filed dozens of...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Sumana Anand didn’t know much about Kelly Ayotte or Chuck Morse when she took her seat in the auditorium of New England College Wednesday.The 17-year-old student from Derry kicked off her freshman year by attending her first candidate debate just...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Jon Kiper knows that when voters look at the ballot on Tuesday, they probably won’t recognize his name.He’s held local office in his Seacoast town of 9,000 but he’s not on people’s televisions in attack advertisements like his competitors. Unless they...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Governor Chris Sununu on Friday banned transgender girls in New Hampshire from competing on school-sponsored girls’ sports teams in the state starting in fifth grade.The law – which makes New Hampshire the 26th state to implement transgender sports...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A bill that would ease New Hampshire’s eviction process will now head to the Senate after House members passed the measure 194-180 March 21.Today, if a landlord wanted to terminate a lease with a tenant at the end of the contract, they are required to...