A proposed new way of bringing health insurance to employees has polarized businesses, organizations and government agencies across the nation and throughout New Hampshire. Called association health plans, or AHPs, they’re designed to be offered by trade or professional organizations…
New Hampshire Industries Inc. has become the first consumer to purchase wholesale electricity directly from the New England Power Pool market. Granite State Electric Co. began delivering electricity to NHI’s Lebanon manufacturing facility on April 20. Freedom Energy, a marketer…
The issue of rural broadband access is no longer a theoretical matter, with much of the political and social discussion focusing on the “digital divide” between hot-wired urban and suburban regions and the mostly dial-up world in the rest of…
From time to time aircraft builders find a home in New Hampshire although they eventually either move on or fade into obscurity. But a new aircraft builder emerging in a basement in Bedford has a good chance of staying afloat…
Cabletron Systems co-founder Gov. Craig Benson sits in the State House partly due to the millions he earned from his company and partly due to his reputation as a can-do job creator. At its peak in 1997, the Rochester high-tech…
Even though University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team didn’t fare as well as their fans would have hoped in this year’s post-season play, Associate Athletic Director Dot Sheehan is confident about one thing: Their jerseys are No. 1. “We…
The company handling $142 million of New Hampshire workers’ retirement funds is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation for alleged improper trading activities, including market timing. “We are doing…
When Gov. Craig Benson pulled the plug on any additional lending to the bankrupt Golf Club of New England, he might have been playing a high-stakes game of poker with attorneys representing both the members and creditors -- and even…
When Lane Cheney, a real estate broker from Newmarket, planned to build an apartment complex on a hill, he wanted a name as pretty as the view. He didn’t think it would be much of a problem. Six months he…
While the New Hampshire Office of Business and Industrial Development’s work in recruiting companies in other states and countries to bring their business to the state, such high-profile work represents only a piece of the work the office does with…
