Out-of-state visitors to New Hampshire will soon pay double the fees to use state parks and double the tolls on non-New Hampshire transponders. And convicted felons who maintain their innocence will soon be able to request a retrial even after the state’s three-year deadline if there’s new evidence contradicting their guilt. Those laws will take […]
New Hampshire state law gives convicted prisoners three years to request a new trial. After that, they lose the right. With a narrow exception for DNA forensics, that’s true even if new evidence contradicting their guilt emerges. If someone else confesses to the crime after three years, they can’t request a new trial. If previously […]
A week before Veto Day, leaders in both parties are hoping to overturn Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s veto of the Ten Year Transportation Improvement Plan. And some like the odds. “I think there’s a pretty good chance,” said Deputy House Speaker Steven Smith, a Charlestown Republican, in an interview Wednesday. “It’s the type of thing that’s […]
Jon Kiper, the independent candidate who had announced a bid for New Hampshire governor, failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for November’s gubernatorial election. Kiper needed 3,000 voters’ signatures to get his name on the ballot. He said he collected only about 500. He blamed his failure to collect the signatures partly on the […]
In 2021, Cassandra Sanchez was working for the Massachusetts Department for Children and Families in Lowell and growing frustrated with red tape and ineffective bureaucracies. She decided she needed to find a new role — one where she could enact systemic change. “I felt at a certain point that I wasn’t helping families by doing […]
The New Hampshire House and Senate will meet Aug. 19 to take up 31 of Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s 33 vetoes this year, after the Republican governor broke a modern record for vetoing the most bills in one year passed by a Legislature of her own party. This year’s Veto Day, which will occur 20 days […]
Over the past three decades, New Hampshire Republicans have held trifecta power over the State House — or simultaneous control of the governor’s office, House, and Senate — for 11 years, including the past six. Democrats, meanwhile, have held trifecta power for just four years in that span. And while Democrats had a decade-long run […]
Last year, New Hampshire lawmakers passed a mandate: Starting July 1, 2026, cities and towns were to begin allowing multi-family residential housing developments in commercial zones. And Kingston, like many towns, moved to comply. But the zoning code change passed by Kingston voters in March added a host of caveats. Commercial zone businesses could apply […]
