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Fewer New Hampshire households filed for bankruptcy in November than any month in the last year - indeed, in nearly five years. November bankruptcy filings dropped to a total of 271 households and businesses, down 43 filings, or 13.7, percent…

A growing Manchester technology firm is the first New Hampshire company to secure a loan through a new U.S. Small Business Administration pilot program, administered locally by the Capital Regional Development Council. Helix Design Inc., a full-service industrial design firm…

Health care facilities in New Hampshire and its two northern New England neighbors are starting to plug in to a new high-speed federally subsidized communications network designed to bring telemedicine to remote regions, according to FairPoint Communications. Four health care…

It may not feel like it, but New Hampshire's personal income per capita rose some 4.3 percent in 2011, to $45,881, ahead of the rate of inflation. But the state actually lagged a bit compared to the nation as a…

PC Connection, basking in recently high quarterly earnings reports, announced last week that it will give out more than $10 million in dividends - about 38 cents a share. "We recently reported our highest third-quarter operating income and earnings per…

John Crosier, 75, who served for 16 years as president of the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire, died Nov. 18 at the Hyder Family Hospice House in Dover after a long battle with cancer. Mr. Crosier, who took…

Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc. has a problem most companies would love: It's selling its products so quickly that the company can barely make them fast enough. The Connecticut-based gun manufacturer, with a major facility in Newport, N.H., reported a…

Underemployment has remained persistently high in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and workers younger than 30 are especially feeling the pinch, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. According to the report,…

New Hampshire had the lowest poverty rate among both individuals and families in the nation last year, but the rate has been rising over the past few years, according to new U.S. Census data. In 2011, 8.8 percent of individuals…