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CONCORD — Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais and a bipartisan group of city officials and state legislators lobbied for bail reform on Wednesday while Senate President Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, expressed optimism

Newly inaugurated Manchester mayor Jay Ruais applauded the efforts. “There is nothing, and I mean nothing, that would have a more transformative impact on the City of Manchester safety than reforming our state’s bail laws,” he said.

After five years of resistance, the New Hampshire House appears ready to overhaul the 2018 bail law that allowed more criminal suspects to avoid jail after arrest.

CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu asked the state’s congressional delegation on Friday to push for more law enforcement at the state’s border with Canada, citing a surge in illegal crossings

Devon Chaffee is the executive director of the ACLU of New Hampshire. She died in 1964, but her life has – once again – become a subject of intense political debate. Earlier this month, the unveiling and subsequent removal of a historical marker...

After a judge in Texas issued a ruling that blocked the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire is calling on state leaders to intervene and protect access to abortion in the...

Hopkinton town officials hope a bond that’s on the table for the March annual meeting will help make a dent in a vast to-do list of road rebuilds. Meanwhile, residents are torn between supporting the higher of two proposed school budgets and keeping...

New Hampshire leaders assured the public Friday that abortions will not be outlawed in the state despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling ending constitutional protections for the procedure.“Regardless of this Supreme Court decision, access to these...

Editor’s Note: This story was first published on New Hampshire Bulletin.The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade does not stop access to abortions under New Hampshire law. But as reactions to the ruling spilled out Friday, many in...

Protests have broken out across the country in response to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the federal constitutional right to an abortion.