New Hampshire's Business Profits Tax and the Business Enterprise Tax can represent up to 40% of the state’s revenue. A new report argues that the notion of reducing these taxes to help kick start business activity hurts the state in the long run.
VentriFlo offers the world’s first pump to deliver a life-like pulse for use during cardiac-related surgery
NH Business Review webinar featuring panel of housing advocates discuss relationship between housing, zoning and legislation
Enhanced tax credits set to expire at the end of 2025
Enhanced tax credits that help thousands of Granite Staters better afford federally backed health coverage are set to expire at the end of 2025
The state Department of Revenue Administration cautions that, despite the repeal, some taxpayers might still have obligations under the law
Real estate professionals ponder the outcome of progress New Hampshire has made toward resolving its housing crisis
A lack of widespread charging infrastructure makes EV motorists nervous about how far they can get in the state before they need a charge
Since Medicaid is a state-federal partnership, what happens to New Hampshire Medicaid recipients depends on what happens in Washington in the coming months
On the commercial real estate side of the ledger, the watchword is 'stable' for both office space and for industrial/warehouse, according to two new reports
To help ease tariff anxiety, the senior U.S. senator from the Granite State proposes what’s being called the Helping Small Business THRIVE Act
A Nashua Community College program to train students on the detailed work of microelectronics is a “critical” feeder to employment at BAE Systems
PlaneSense, headquartered at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, announced that its clients can use their flight hours with Jetfly beginning April 1
How to attract even more people and more money to New Hampshire going forward was the subject of a conference held Jan. 28 at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease
As New Hampshire falls further behind its regional counterparts on how much it pays in a minimum hourly wage, legislative efforts to boost the compensation in 2025 face a steep uphill climb.
Gov. Ayotte: ‘The journey of a thousand steps begins with one ... This is about our now and our future.’
Long COVID is not only a health issue for many Granite Staters, it has a direct effect on the New Hampshire economy. The New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute (NHFPI) says in a new report local workers who reduced their hours due to long COVID may have lost an estimated $152.7 million in wages in 2022, while those who left the labor force entirely accounted for approximately $389.4 million in lost wages in 2022.
New survey from the NH Association of Realtors shows that the lack of affordable housing weighs heavily on Granite Staters
A major health care and security technology company that’s been headquartered in Peabody, Mass., for almost 50 years is pulling up stakes and moving to Salem, N.H., bringing with it 500 jobs. Analogic Corp. is moving to 9 Northeastern Boulevard in Salem, needing more room for its research and manufacturing operations.
To be considered middle class in 2019, a household in New Hampshire needed a minimum annual income of $83,151. By 2023, that jumped to $108,470, according to new data from ConsumerAffairs, a journal of consumer research. That latest bit of data gives New Hampshire the distinction of having the second highest middle-class threshold rank in the United States, trailing only its neighbor Massachusetts.
Net metering allows customers to receive credit for excess electricity they generate and then add back to the electrical grid. The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission in an early December decision let net metering stand at its current rate but left no assurances of what the future — if any — there is for continuing net metering.
Enthusiasm among housing advocates is high to increase the residential supply throughout New Hampshire, but 2024 results are mixed
Cole is committed to the association’s continuing task of trying to get more housing stock built in the Granite State
The Child Care, Business & Employer Partnership Project seeks to quantify child care challenges in New Hampshire and engage business community to adopt more family-friendly policies
Lack of housing inventory has dual effect on NH revenue
A New Hampshire company will use a federal grant to bring space-worthy compressor technology down to Earth to better heat and cool people’s homes.
For FY 2024, all the games and gambling under the NH Lottery Commission outperformed tobacco and liquor tax revenue — by a lot
The New Hampshire Transfer Guarantee program assures eligible Granite State students can receive guaranteed admission to the college or university of their choice
So far in New Hampshire, the Fed’s interest rate cut in September that was meant, in part, to ignite a more balanced housing market by lowering home mortgage interests has been a dud
Several presenters, including a Montana state senator, addressed challenges and possible solutions to the housing crisis in the Granite State at NH Housing's 2024 Housing & Economic Conference on Oct. 23
A new state law that went into effect in September could make day care more available in residential neighborhoods
Medicare recipients enter disruptive enrollment period as insurance carriers have changed plans, exited certain counties or decided to leave the state altogether
A bank president retires, another bank rebrands
New Hampshire winter resorts prepare for the 2024-25 season with facility improvements and trail-blasting
What the candidates for governor are saying about housing
A new partnership with banking giant JP Morgan gives York IE, a Manchester-based advisory and investment firm, more fuel to rev up technology startups.
Housing interest rates may start to drop through the rest of 2024 and into 2025, a positive sign for the residential real estate market in New Hampshire
Military power is most often seen as the regulator of world stability. But soft power, one that uses economic development, can be a better influencer of global behavior, according to participants Sept. 3 in a forum held by the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire. The forum featured Enoh Ebong, director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
Novocure opened its new U.S. headquarters in Portsmouth on Sept. 3 with officials praising its work on cancer treatments they say will help cement the state as the epicenter of life-altering health discoveries.
Novo Nordisk in West Lebanon is looking to hire 40 people in 2024, a 10% increase in its current headcount of about 400 as it continues its work to improve the lives of people with certain ailments.
A greater moderation of pricing and the availability of more property for sale is signaling a cooling in what has been a red-hot residential real estate market
Commercial-to-housing proposals offer a possible solution for much-need housing, but a larger conflict rears its ugly head: zoning
MCC-BAE program helps to produce much-needed IT, cybersecurity talent for hard-to-fill positions
Facility to be built facility with NOAA funds for creation of a new Center of Excellence for Operational Ocean and Great Lakes Mapping
DAX tool can help providers complete medical reports and charts in real time
$538,000 mark set new record, fourth in four months
GovSky builds a cybersecurity compliance software platform for government contractors, helping companies meet new federal requirements.
Gambling model 'unique' to New Hampshire making strides with local nonprofits and entertainment venues
People who drive and analyze the New Hampshire economic engine agree that interest rates, inflation, housing and child care are the challenges facing an otherwise strong New Hampshire economy at mid-year.
Home and car insurance rates have risen nationally due to inflation, extreme weather events and litigation
Former state economic commissioner Taylor Caswell has joined Bernstein Shur as managing director of economic solutions, a new offering within the firm’s government and public affairs practice group, the law firm announced Monday.
New Hampshire’s high cost of living puts a disproportionate burden on women, particularly mothers, according to a new report published by the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation. The Status of Women in New Hampshire 2025 stresses gender inequities across the state
Officials say it's a win for the state, and for Hampton, as the state makes a push for proposals from developers/operators
Key federal funding for New Hampshire schools has not been affected by the shutdown in Washington, Department of Education Commissioner Caitlin Davis said Thursday, Oct. 9 — at least the money that flows through the state Department of Education.
New Hampshire voters aren’t feeling much relief from their anxieties about the state’s housing crisis. The continued reduced housing inventory, which pushes home prices higher, is also dampening labor market in the Granite State, according to a pair of studies.
New Hampshire’s attorney general says no improprieties by state officials preceded the sale of a large Nashua commercial building to China’s largest water bottler. But Attorney General John Formella’s report to Gov. Kelly Ayotte dated Oct. 3 says the provisions of federal law should have taken place prior to the sale of the 337,391-square-foot building at 80 Northwest Blvd. in Nashua by a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring.
Despite a shift in policy, New Hampshire officials expect 100% of the households and businesses in the state will have access to broadband internet by 2026.
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice is suing New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan, arguing he is illegally withholding the state’s voter file from federal officials.
Brian Gottlob uses these words to describe the state’s current economic climate: “Uncertainty rules.” The director of the New Hampshire Employment Security's Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau raised several issues — from immigration and unemployment, to housing prices and consumer spending — as reasons for both hope and concern for the economy into 2026.
