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By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — New Hampshire’s school choice program was depicted as both a lifeline for struggling families and a blow to public education as debate moved to the state Senate on Tuesday.The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on two House-passed...

By DAVID SHARP

Developers have right to finish $1B power line, jury saysEds: UPDATES: This story updates with comment from environmental group.PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A jury that heard complicated testimony about construction schedules and constitutional rights...

By PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP

BOWDOIN, Maine — A man confessed to killing four people, including his parents, and then firing on motorists on a busy interstate highway, just days after being released from prison, police said Wednesday. Mike Sauschuck, commissioner of the Maine...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — Parents seeking more control over schools and those trying to protect transgender youth converged at the New Hampshire Statehouse on Tuesday as lawmakers again took up what has become a national debate.Both the New Hampshire Senate and the...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming to the waters off New England by raising salmon and trout in open-ocean pens miles from land, but critics fear the plan could harm the environment.The vast...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — In a surprising display of cooperation and compromise, the narrowly divided New Hampshire House approved a two-year state budget Thursday, sending the $15.9 billion plan on to the Senate.The total, which includes federal funds, would be more...

By MARK PRATT

BOSTON — The little bottles of booze at Huntington Wine and Liquor are displayed prominently at the front counter of the Boston store, some stacked neatly in display cases, others tossed haphazardly in trays.Steven Rubin, whose family has owned the...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — Hikers will honor a young Massachusetts woman who died in New Hampshire by climbing multiple peaks this summer and raising funds for a foundation created by her family.The event, dubbed “Emily’s Hike To Save a Life” is set for July 29, with...

By WILSON RING

MONTPELIER — Thousands of people rallied across the country Friday as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility in support of the rights of transgender people and their resilience amid what many denounced as an increasingly hostile...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.It’s a move...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — The New Hampshire House rejected a measure aimed at sending fewer children to the state’s troubled youth detention center Thursday after child advocates argued it would have had the opposite effect. The disagreement arose as lawmakers inch...

By HOLLY RAMER

In a victory for abortion-rights supporters, the Republican-led but closely divided New Hampshire House on Thursday rejected multiple bills to further restrict abortion access while also approving legislation to protect it.The eight abortion-related...

By RODRIQUE NGOWI and KATHY McCORMACK

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Parts of New England and New York were digging out of a nor’easter Wednesday that caused tens of thousands of power outages, numerous school cancellations and whiteout conditions on the roads.The storm began Monday night and lasted...

By WILSON RING

Parts of New England, upstate New York, northeastern Pennsylvania, and northern New Jersey were bracing Monday for a winter storm that could drop more than 12 inches of heavy, wet snow.The National Weather Service says the storm was supposed to begin...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire was arrested Friday for allegedly screaming and swearing at a snowplow truck operator who recorded the confrontation and later reported him to police.Rep. Jeffrey Greeson, 51, of Wentworth was charged...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — A unanimous New Hampshire Senate gave preliminary approval Thursday to continuing the state’s expanded Medicaid program and making it permanent.The 24-0 vote to send the bill to the Finance Committee highlighted the Legislature’s evolution...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — School choice supporters scored multiple victories Thursday when the state House advanced two bills expanding the state’s education freedom account program, and the state Senate blocked an attempt to limit it.The voucher-like program...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — The New Hampshire Senate on Thursday refused to affirm abortion as an explicit right, but lawmakers are still considering a slew of bills on both sides of the issue.The Republican-led Senate voted 14-10 along party lines to reject a bill...

By DAVID SHARP

AUGUSTA, Maine — A Maine vegan whose custom license plate contains the word “tofu” is one of the motorists caught in a state crackdown on vulgar tags. Car owners across the United States can pay an extra fee to customize license plates, sparking...

By WILSON RING

The death of a Mexican man who had just entered the United States from Canada illegally is highlighting the spike in illegal crossings along the border between Quebec and parts of New England, officials say.The number of illegal border crossers is...