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Upper Valley waste management company pleads guilty to falsifying reports. An Orange-based waste management company has pleaded guilty to falsifying annual facility reports and will pay a total of $100,000 in fines, state officials announced. Hammond Grinding and Recycling, which specializes in construction and demolition debris, was charged earlier this...
Commissioner unsure ‘how much longer Fish and Game can go on’ without sustainable funding
New Hampshire Fish and Game gets only a tiny sliver of its revenue from the state general fund. But as its responsibilities and costs grow, legislators are being told that needs to change for the department to survive. “I don’t know how much longer Fish and Game can go on unless we get sustainable funding,” […]
Low humidity Friday keeps weather pleasant; rain expected for part of Labor Day weekend
It will feel a lot like fall as we move through this Friday! Low humidity values will keep our weather comfortable through the afternoon with highs in the low 70s. We'll see mostly sunny skies. Low temperatures will be in the upper 50s and lower 60s Friday night. We're tracking...
Video: Sunny & comfy ahead of the holiday weekend
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A bright and pleasantly mild Friday, but some changes move in for the upcoming holiday weekend. A chilly start on Friday with some patchy valley fog. Mostly sunny skies will warm us back into the lower half of the 70s for Friday afternoon. We turn briefly...
Patients ready for discharge in NH hospitals take up needed beds
When New Hamsphire’s hospitals say they have problems at the front and back doors, this is what they mean. On a single day in early June, 79 much-needed hospital beds were occupied by people who were ready for discharge to a lower-level of care but remained hospitalized because that care wasn’t available. Reasons ranged from a shortage of nursing home beds and too few legal guardians for those who needed them to long waits for Medicaid benefits...
What is eastern equine encephalitis? Two mosquito researchers explain what’s behind the latest outbreaks
Health authorities in the United States are issuing warnings and closing public parks due to a rare but potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease. This week, a resident of the US state of New Hampshire died after being hospitalised with eastern equine encephalitis. Cases have also been detected in other states. But what is eastern equine encephalitis? How is it spread? What, as the name suggests, do horses have to do with it? And is it a problem for Australia? What is eastern equine encephalitis? Eastern equine encephalitis is caused by a virus typically only found in some eastern parts of the Americas, from Central America...
Top Family-Owned Business in NH: (#47) Foxx Life Sciences Prepares for More Growth
Thomas Taylor, standing, with members of the Foxx Life Sciences management team. (Photo by Christine Carignan) For 10 of the past 15 years, Foxx Life Sciences has grown sales by 40% or more annually and expanded its global markets by opening facilities in India in addition to its NH facilities in Londonderry and Salem.
Farmer’s Almanac Calling for Lots of Snow and Rain for Maine, New Hampshire, & Massachusetts This Winter
Last winter was definitely abnormal. With the exception of a few really nasty storms (one in mid-December and one in mid-January), the winter was fairly mild. With the exception of a handful of rain and snowstorms, last winter was calm. Even the temperatures remained mild. According to records kept by...
State took in record lottery revenues last year, a boost to Education Trust Fund
The New Hampshire Lottery Commission brought in record revenue the past fiscal year — money that will help fuel the state’s Education Trust Fund. In state fiscal year 2024, which ran from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024, New Hampshire took in a total $631 million in sales — a 5 percent increase from […]
Jury deliberates in first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire youth center abuse
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Jurors in the first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire’s sprawling child abuse scandal began deliberating Thursday in the case of a former youth detention center worker charged with repeatedly raping a teenage girl two decades ago. Victor Malavet, 62, is one of nine...
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