Paula Tracy

James Key-Wallace, executive director at New Hampshire Business Finance Authority, is being nominated by Gov. Kelly Ayotte to become the commissioner for the state Department of Business and Economic Affairs.

Sarah Stewart, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, told InDepthNH.org Monday she will serve out her term and resign when it ends next June.

Considered the first of its kind in the nation to help veterans and first responders in need, Gov. Kelly Ayotte and the state's five-member Executive Council had breakfast Wednesday at the recently opened Easter Seals NH Military & Veterans Campus at the former Daniel Webster homestead off Route 3.

The state's Executive Council approved emergency funding to help Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP recipients across the state to access healthy food if the federal government shutdown goes beyond this Saturday, Nov. 1.

With 2026 healthcare open enrollment beginning next week, federal cuts passed by Republicans could force skyrocketing premiums and will have a "tsunami effect" which will dramatically impact residents, cripple some health-care providers but not necessarily impact insurance "claim deniers and premium extractors,"  Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander told health-care providers and patients, Friday.

An effort by Executive Councilors John Stephen, R-Manchester and David Wheeler, R-Milford to table the request failed.

A special meeting of the state's Executive Council is set for Saturday to address several tabled contract items from Wednesday's meeting, including a $700,000 contract to repair a critical bridge in Charlestown which is down to one-lane delays.

The majority of the state's Executive Council tabled a record 21 contracts brought by Gov. Kelly Ayotte Wednesday, including ones to fund a child advocacy center and another to repair an important bridge in Charlestown, which is down to one lane.

A report on the murder of 25-year-old Berlin resident Marisol Fuentes Huaracha by her estranged husband, who was out on $5,000 bail for rape and theft and subject to a restraining order and who then killed himself, was issued Tuesday by Attorney General John M. Formella.

Cold weather early Friday allowed Bretton Woods to fire up its snowmaking system for testing, an indication that the upcoming ski season is not far behind.