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 […]
The perennial debate over daylight saving time in the U.S. is coming around again, but for one New Hampshire state representative, it’s never gone away. In fact, the matter has haunted Rep. Timothy Horrigan, a Durham Democrat, since the moment of his birth, on Oct. 3 — or was it Oct. 4? — 1956. At […]
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 […]
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 […]
For Rep. Keith Ammon, a New Boston Republican and the prime sponsor of House Bill 639, regulating cryptocurrency is a matter of getting the state out of the way. The goal, he said in a phone interview Monday, is “to protect from too much regulation.” Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed HB 639 — deemed the “Blockchain […]
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 […]
Members of the Londonderry School Board had barely begun their budgeting process last September when they received a jolt. SchoolCare, the organization that provided the district’s health care, said it had underestimated the cost of claims, and Londonderry owed $2.1 million to fill the gap. If the district didn’t pay the surprise fee by January, […]
State law requires Rhode Island's newly elected general officers to have available state-funded space for their transitional staff.
