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The number of New Hampshire hunting licenses sold to people from outside the state has fallen about 20 percent over the last decade, according to figures from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. In 2002, 12,469 non-residents purchased a…

The Capital Regional Development Council has been awarded a $1 million loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration under its stimulus-funded Intermediary Lending Pilot program through which the Concord-based agency can fund eligible businesses up to $200,000.CRDC was among 20…

Monadnock Community Bank of Peterborough wants to pay back its loan under the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program so it can complete its merger with GFA Federal Credit Union, but it can't, according to bank President William M. Pierce Jr.…

Five of the six New Hampshire banks "bailed out" through the federal government's Troubled Asset Relief Program have paid back the government in full -- and then some, according to "Eye on the Bailout," a report by ProPublica, an investigative…

J.P. Sercel Associates Inc., a privately owned Manchester-based maker of industrial laser micromachining systems, has been acquired by IPG Photonics Corp., a publicly traded company based in Oxford, Mass.IPG, a manufacturer of high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, said in a…

With USA Springs going up on the auction block at the end of the month, the federally appointed bankruptcy trustee and the company's largest secured creditor have cut a deal over how to split up the proceeds. But the deal…

After a brief plateau in July, New Hampshire bankruptcy filings fell in August to below 300 -- a level not seen since 1998.In August, some 296 households and businesses filed for bankruptcy protection. That's 12 percent lower than July and…