Panel looks for solutions to direct care worker shortage
New Hampshire already faces a shortage of nursing assistants, home health aides and other direct care workers. But a state commission says thousands more will be needed as the population ages.
Author: Paul Cuno-Booth- Granite State News Collaborative
New Hampshire county attorneys hold a lot of power, but most run unopposed
Despite a surge of interest in criminal justice reform, contested elections aren’t the norm
‘Not a close case’
NH Personnel Appeals Board upholds trooper firing
Lawyers work to free man they say falsely confessed to 1988 murder
Post-conviction exoneration in a murder case would be a first for New Hampshire
NH Justice Department to appeal state trooper personnel records release
DOJ asks Supreme Court to back exemption of police personnel files
Officials across the U.S. are rethinking how police handle traffic stops
But in New Hampshire, it’s unclear if safety officials are following suit
‘Why did I get stopped?’ State Police use minor traffic violations to search for drugs
Pretextual stops are legal, but give police broad discretion to pursue their suspicions
Judge says State Police records on fired officer should be made public
Ex-trooper lost his job for illegally searching phones, being untruthful in internal probe
New Hampshire tried to study bail reform’s impact. It never happened.
Project’s failure highlights New Hampshire’s data problem
Weekly Covid Roundup: NH cases, hospitalizations continue steep drop
‘The numbers continue to head in the right direction’
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NOAA building at UNH seen as ‘transformative’ for NH
The new building in Durham’s western edge will anchor a 60-acre, mixed-use project of academic, corporate, government, residential and entertainment uses.
Defense co. creates stay, work, play in one site
New Hampshire entrepreneurs Ken and Grace Solinsky are experienced in creating businesses. On July 7, they cut the ribbon on something much more — an industrial, residential, child care, retail strip, all rolled into one.
Benchmark at Rye completes expansion
Benchmark at Rye, an assisted living and mind and memory care community, opened a new 60,000-square-foot addition at its Route 1 campus, welcoming its first residents on May 1.
Full STEAM ahead for ArtLab
The Currier Museum of Art is expanding ArtLab, its hands-on, after-school STEAM partnership with Nashua Public Schools, after a pilot year that reached 58 students at four schools and connected classroom learning with art on view at the museum.
Dartmouth professor honored for developing ‘camera-on-a-chip’ that powers smartphones
Eric Fossum co-invented technology that grew out of research at NASA
Firing up the fans
When New Hampshire Fisher Cats General Manager Taylor Fisher was hired on Halloween of 2024, his bosses at Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH) advised him to use his first year on the job to observe and evaluate the organization, and figure out what needed to be tackled.
NH’s ‘Optics Valley’
Precision optics is likely one of the biggest manufacturing sectors in New Hampshire that most Granite Staters have never heard of.
Two Gold Street properties added to Revo proposal
A brand new and redesigned Revo Casino and Social House came back to Manchester’s land-use boards this month after the acquisition of additional nearby properties allowed the creation of an expanded vision for the project.
Developing in commercial zones, dead-end roads
The New Hampshire House and Senate sent three bills to Gov. Kelly Ayotte intended to enable more housing construction, overcoming opposition from the New Hampshire Municipal Association and others.
