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By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Earlier this year, New Hampshire lawmakers banned transgender girls from competing on girls’ school sports teams and prohibited some gender reassignment surgeries for minors.Those efforts will continue next year, as several Republicans have...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

New Hampshire’s consumer advocate, which represents residents and utility customers in government decisions, could be stripped of its funding and independence in the name of efficiency.Ross Berry, a state representative from Weare, filed a draft...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

It’s no secret that New Hampshire’s headed toward leaner times. Outgoing Gov. Chris Sununu hoped to get ahead of the revenue problem by asking state agencies to reduce their budgets requests.Still, this year’s proposals totaled nearly $17 billion...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

The budget ball is in Kelly Ayotte’s court.After 50 state agencies presented their budget proposals for the 2026-27 cycle, the governor-elect has about three months to piece together her draft spending plan and present it to the state Legislature.Her...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Earlier this year, Gov. Chris Sununu sent a message to state agencies: Decrease your budgets by about 4%. In budget hearings, department heads complied, hitting that mark on their funding proposals, but they're sending a message back: We don’t have...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

On the campaign trail, Kelly Ayotte championed nuclear energy. Now, a group of House Republicans are backing her quest to expand it in New Hampshire.Ten legislators – including state Rep. Keith Ammon, whe represents Lyndeborough -- signed on to a...

By ROWAN WILSON

Ed Cardoza had heard about the “Yellow House on Grove” a couple of times before he and his husband Al Cummings came up to visit. They had been living in Foxborough, Mass., and were on the search for the right old house to make their home. “Al is a...

By TIM GOODWIN

The Big Bad Wolf might have been able to blow down the straw house of The Three Little Pigs, but the same result isn’t likely if he huffed and puffed at the front door of Laura Tashjian’s Greenfield home.It was back in 2009 when Tashjian finally...

By TIM GOODWIN

The Cranberry Meadow Farm Inn in Peterborough officially opened for guests on Oct. 1, but the bed and breakfast is just the latest chapter in the property’s long and storied history.Charlie and Carolyn Hough had “been talking for a while about what we...

By TIM GOODWIN

For the last year, Scott Kraska and his wife, Debra, have found perfect strangers knocking on the front door of their New Ipswich home.Some were former students of the Appleton School wondering about all the work that’s being done. Others have...

By TIM GOODWIN

Most homeowners are lucky to have one breathtaking view to show off to visitors – David Jeffries has them everywhere he looks.At Jeffries’s 159-acre estate in Jaffrey, his 6,000 square foot mid-century modern home is impressive enough to get people...

By NICHOLAS HANDY

Nestled in the woods of Rindge is an 11,000-square-foot solar-powered castle.The building – commissioned by John Hunt – offers many of the amenities commonly associated with a castle, such as secret passageways, granite fireplaces and chandeliers, but...