State Rep. Dylan Germana, a Keene Democrat, has resigned after the state Attorney General’s Office wrote in a letter to House leadership that they found “credible evidence” the young New Hampshire lawmaker was no longer living within his district. The New Hampshire Constitution requires lawmakers to live within their district. The House clerk announced Germana’s […]
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The New Hampshire Senate voted to pass a bill Thursday that would allow retired grandparents to receive funds from the Child Care Scholarship Program without having to re-enter the workforce. The scholarship helps eligible families subsidize the cost of child care by paying a portion of their tuition directly to a child’s provider. Currently, to […]
New Hampshire Senate Republicans fast-tracked a bill to create universal open enrollment in New Hampshire public schools Thursday, using a parliamentary maneuver to send the bill to the House without needing a hearing in either chamber. If signed into law, the legislation would allow New Hampshire residents to enroll students in any school district in […]
Cassandra Sanchez, who has served as New Hampshire’s child advocate since 2022, is being replaced, Gov. Kelly Ayotte announced Tuesday. As child advocate, Sanchez is the state’s official youth-focused watchdog, overseeing the state’s child welfare, juvenile justice, and youth care systems, and advocating for the best interests of children in the state. Sanchez told the […]
The program began as a bipartisan idea: to incentivize cities and towns to change their zoning codes and approve more housing developments. But three years after the launch of the state-funded, $5 million New Hampshire Housing Champions program, that bipartisan support has crumbled. Facing projected revenue shortfalls, lawmakers stopped funding the program in the 2025 […]
Rep. Jessica LaMontagne became interested in natural funerals after witnessing a loved one’s home burial in Vermont. “I was really quite moved by the experience,” she said Thursday, Jan. 23, addressing the House Committee on Executive Departments and Administration. The experience set LaMontagne, a Dover Democrat, down a path of learning about alternative funerals. Under […]
Kim Lawrence moved to New Hampshire not for its mountains but for its marriage policies. In 2011, Lawrence had been living with her now-wife in a Western state that did not allow LGBTQ+ people to marry. The Granite State was one of the first states to break that trend and pass marriage equality legislation into […]
Gov. Kelly Ayotte announced Wednesday she will give her annual State of the State address Feb. 5 at 10 a.m. at the State House in Concord. “Since I was sworn in a year ago, we’ve delivered on key promises to Granite Staters: from fixing the broken bail system, to new laws that will speed up […]
A bill filed by Republican state Rep. Kelley Potenza, House Bill 1719, seeks to remove hepatitis B from the list of vaccines children in New Hampshire are legally required to receive. The proposal comes on the heels of a recent decision by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel to end the agency’s […]
Amid an increasingly aggressive national deportation campaign by the Trump administration and reports that Merrimack might play a more significant role in that campaign soon, New Hampshire Democrats are trying to prevent state, county, or municipal funding from being used to assist. House Bill 1609, filed by state Rep. David Meuse, would prohibit New Hampshire […]