Paula Tracy

The Commission on the Environmental and Public Health Impacts of PFAS Compounds met Friday to discuss progress on the clean-up around Merrimack's closed Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics plant at 710 Daniel Webster Highway (Route 3), efforts to investigate possible links to cancer and adverse health impacts in that area and discussed proposed legislation to allow for a longer time for people to file civil claims related to PFAS' impacts on their lives.

On Monday, S&P Global Ratings lowered the long-term issuer credit on the state's largest utility, Eversource, from A- to BBB+.

A contract with Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (Dartmouth Health) to operate the state's new psychiatric hospital for youths at Hampstead Hospital was tabled for two weeks by the state's Executive Council, with questions about state control, oversight and the future of state employees there.

New Hampshire's lakes, mountains and seashores are not just pretty, they are places to hike, ski, boat, swim and big money makers for the state, according to a new national analysis.

New Hampshire will officially open its 2024-25 ski season on Saturday with Bretton Woods dropping the ropes and cranking up the bull wheels for its 51st season while other ski areas have indicated their opening dates, which may change.

It's not going to be "puppies and rainbows" in the House of Representatives next year as Republicans and Democrats work through a budget in 2025, two re-elected legislators agreed, as they addressed what the future might look like as part of a Post Election Brief, sponsored by the Dupont Group Friday.

After a general election that saw a record 834,651 voters casting their ballots Tuesday in the Granite State, members of the State Senate Majority Caucus unanimously chose Republican state Sen. Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, to serve as the next Senate President.

PLYMOUTH - For more than a year, a group of supporters of former President and Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump have gathered every Saturday morning on Tenney Mountain Highway near its intersection with Highland Street, to wave the American flag, engage with motorists and to support their candidate for President.

The state is undertaking a massive, $50.7 million modernization project of its fish hatchery at New Hampton to help clean up the water from fish waste, improve and create efficiencies and protect the trout from predators like otters, osprey and eagles.

PITTSBURG - Aurora Sustainable Lands is resisting calls to allow for more ATV trail miles on the Connecticut Lakes Headwater Tract under a new recreation plan approved by the state Oct. 21.