Staff at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest breathed a sigh of relief after a Monday morning announcement that their research station would not shutter as part of U.S. Forest Service restructuring. They also saw the news, according to Hubbard Brook Research Foundation Executive Director Anthea Lavallee, as a bipartisan vote of confidence in the importance of […]

At least 57 forest research stations across the nation are set to close as part of a “restructuring” of the U.S. Forest Service. But Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, in the White Mountains, will not be among them, Gov. Kelly Ayotte and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen announced on Monday. Another Forest Service research station in New […]

After a New Hampshire House committee voted to kick the can down the road on whether to compel insurance companies to cover wraparound mental health services for children, Gov. Kelly Ayotte was “outraged.” “I was incredibly flabbergasted and disappointed by the House vote on this,” Ayotte told reporters in her office following the vote on […]

In one of the last sessions of the year, the New Hampshire Senate voted to pass a bill that would change zoning laws for family childcare providers and make it easier to open a small childcare center.  Family childcare, also known as home-based childcare, accounts for about 15% of licensed childcare in New Hampshire. Home-based […]

The New Hampshire Senate approved House Bill 1422 Thursday, sending the legislation to Gov. Kelly Ayotte for final approval. The bill, sponsored by Pelham Republican Rep. Tom Mannion with bipartisan support, would eliminate New Hampshire’s three-year deadline for convicted inmates to request another trial if there is new evidence of their innocence. The New England […]

The Sununu Youth Services Center has been rocked in recent weeks by new allegations of abuse and neglect, and Cinde Warmington, a Democratic challenger in the New Hampshire governor’s race, blames Gov. Kelly Ayotte and a budget cut she signed into law. Specifically, Warmington points to cuts to the Office of the Child Advocate. The […]

Cassandra Sanchez packed up her desk at the Office of the Child Advocate weeks ago, but her final day still hasn’t arrived. Sanchez has served as New Hampshire’s child advocate, the official watchdog that oversees the state’s youth-focused systems, such as the foster care or juvenile justice, since 2022. She’s the second person to hold […]

Activists, neighbors, local leaders, and state legislators gathered on the shore of Forest Lake in Dalton Friday morning to look over the placid lake and reiterate their commitment to fighting landfill proposals for their region. Nature was in cooperation: The sun began to break through clouds during the ceremony, and a resident loon yodeled a […]