After winning their respective primary elections last week, Republican Anthony DiLorenzo and Democrat Stefany Shaheen will face off in November’s general election to see who will represent New…

Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas will face off in November against Republican former Sen. John E. Sununu to be U.S. Senator, after the two candidates prevailed in their parties’ primaries Tuesday.

Incumbent Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, a Democrat, and Lily Tang Williams, a Republican, secured nominations from their respective parties on Tuesday in the race to represent New Hampshire's 2nd…

Scott Thompson, a retired mechanic from Epsom, usually doesn’t vote in midterm elections, but after a GOP candidate for state representative showed up at his door he decided to make plans to vote on…

State Rep. Charlie St. Clair, 76, who represented Laconia and served as executive director for the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association, died Saturday from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash…

New Hampshire Bulletin reporter William Skipworth’s reporting recently won awards and sparked legislative reforms in the state.

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.

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 contr...

Child food insecurity in New Hampshire grew by more than 6% from 36,160 children in 2023 to 38,430 in 2024, the national nonprofit Feeding America found in its annual “Map the Meal Gap” report and…

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...

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.

New Hampshire election officials say they’re unconcerned after the Trump administration announced it will send election monitors to watch September’s primaries in Manchester and Nashua — a longstandin...

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…

Fabian Schmidt sometimes wakes up afraid in the middle of the night, briefly forgetting he’s no longer at the maximum security prison where he spent two months last year.

A bill aimed at protecting people with disabilities from abuse and neglect is now law.

Nearly two years into her tenure, Gov. Kelly Ayotte has become comfortable with a veto pen.

Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a bill that would’ve eliminated a three-year deadline for convicts to request a retrial based on new evidence.

Today, Nenia Ballard is 2026’s Miss Wheelchair New Hampshire, but her early days using the chair were filled with shame.

The filing period for elected office is officially over in New Hampshire, which means voters now know who will be on the ballot for September’s primary elections.

A Republican effort to keep transgender people out of restrooms, sports teams and other spaces in New Hampshire that align with their gender identity has again been stymied in the State House’s corner...

Today, Nenia Ballard is 2026’s Miss Wheelchair New Hampshire, but her early days using the chair were filled with shame.

During a visit to New Hampshire Friday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced millions of dollars in funding for research on Lyme disease before what’s expected to be a heavy tick season.

After a monthslong review, the Charitable Trusts Unit concluded that North Country Healthcare, which operates three hospitals in rural northern New Hampshire, breached its fiduciary duties when it fir...

The Democratic National Committee commissioned an “autopsy” of the party’s losses in 2024, and while much of the draft report centers around Kamala Harris’ failed presidential bid, it also includes cr...

As Gov. Kelly Ayotte seeks to fend off challengers in her reelection bid, her top Democratic challenger, Cinde Warmington, has sought to make Medicaid — and the several changes to the program Ayotte f...

The New Hampshire Legislature has sent a bill to Gov. Kelly Ayotte for final approval that would allow transgender people to be excluded from restrooms, locker rooms, sports teams, and other settings ...

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...

Cassandra Sanchez packed up her desk at the Office of the Child Advocate weeks ago, but her final day still hasn’t arrived.

Gov. Kelly Ayotte said New Hampshire will continue to be involved with the Northeast Public Health Collaborative but will not formally join the group.

On Monday morning, Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed into law harsher penalties for drivers who refuse to take a breath alcohol test, checking off a priority of the first-term Republican governor.

New Hampshire state law allows convicts three years to request a new trial. After that, they lose the right. That’s true even if new evidence contradicting their guilt emerges. However, New Hampshire ...

A trial could soon determine the fate of Choices for Independence, New Hampshire’s at-home care program for people with physical disabilities and the elderly.

Donnalee Lozeau, director of GO-NORTH, said her philosophy in distributing the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government is giving New Hampshire to spend on its struggling rural healthcar...

The Bulletin spent months looking into New Hampshire’s intellectual and developmental disability care system. Tragedy after tragedy has exposed systemic failures in oversight and prevention. A System…

New Hampshire state law allows convicts three years to request a new trial. After that, they lose the right. That’s true even if new evidence contradicting their guilt emerges. A former Warwick, Rhode...

Edward Shanshala, CEO of Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, said when Congress passed its massive tax cuts and spending law last year, he and his colleagues made the difficult decision to shut down the organization’s clinic in Franconia in anticipation of the law’s impacts. Shanshala doesn’t think a new tranche of federal funding will be enough […]

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