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With police, fire and prison security recruitment issues continually facing the state and vacancy rates as high as 20 percent, Group II retirement benefits for state employees was before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday where the issue died last year.

Service Credit Union has teamed up with Charlie McAvoy to donate $200,000 toward heart and cancer screenings for first responders....

A retirement benefits solution for public safety workers across the state was recommended by a House and Senate Commission on a vote of 8-6, Thursday upon Sen. Donna Soucy's recommendation

Fire departments in New Hampshire are coming up with different ways to hire firefighters as experts say staffing shortages are affecting nearly every station in the state.

The Retirement Benefits Commission intends to adjust retirement benefits for some police and firefighters and to look at possible long-term changes to the system.

A law that went into effect this month in New Hampshire makes all types of cancer among firefighters a presumptive occupational disease.

In 2019, the state of New Hampshire banned firefighting foams containing PFAS chemicals, as mounting evidence linked the widely used fire suppressant to higher cancer rates.

In 2019, the state of New Hampshire banned firefighting foams containing PFAS chemicals, as mounting evidence linked the widely used fire suppressant to higher cancer rates among firefighters and contamination of drinking water. And yet, fire departments around the state are still storing these now-prohibited foams on site. That’s because up until now, there wasn’t a safe or effective way to dispose of them. 

A new partnership was announced Monday to try to reduce cancer rates among firefighters in New Hampshire's largest city.

Sen. Maggie Hassan, in Portsmouth, stressed the importance of making firefighters “a priority in the fight against PFAS” chemicals.