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A bill prohibiting state officials from planning for a state health exchange is one of the major measures affecting business that is due to come before the House this week.The bill is expected to be voted on either Wednesday or…

Despite the extra day in February this leap year, some 350 New Hampshire households and businesses filed for bankruptcy last month, which was 54 (or 13.3 percent) fewer than in February 2011 and 156 (or 30 percent) fewer than in…

To increase revenues, the New Hampshire Lottery is teaming up with the lotteries of the five other New England states to launch a new game that gives players a chance to win $1,000 a day for their entire lives.The game…

A consortium of three companies that specialize in auctioning off commercial assets agreed to buy Isaacson Structural Steel at a bankruptcy auction for $2.4 million on Wednesday. Those three companies -- Counsel RB Capital LLC, of White Plains, N.Y., Ohio-based…

The total value of future construction contracts in New Hampshire fell 37 percent in January from the same month the previous year, but activity actually rose in two construction sectors over that period.Future construction contracts totaled $82.4 million in the…

ICAD lost another $2.2 million, or 4 cents per share in its final quarter of 2011, and while that's nearly a $700,000 improvement on the fourth quarter of the previous year, the Nashua medical imagining company will still finish 2011…

Sturm, Ruger & Co. blew through the recession like a speeding bullet. The Connecticut-based company with a major manufacturing presence in New Hampshire, reported that it sold $328.8 million in guns and castings in 2011 -- more than twice the…

Barely a year after the state of New Hampshire lured Albany International Corp. -- a major manufacturing employer in the Albany, N.Y., area -- to move its headquarters and most of its jobs to Rochester, N.H., Granite State economic development…

An attorney for TD Bank objected Thursday to hiring a real estate agent to sell the land and building of the bankrupt Kingsbury Corp. in Keene, saying it was a "pie in the sky" approach that wouldn't fetch enough money…

The first month of 2012 brought some mixed signs to New Hampshire's housing market, with January residential home sales beating out the prior January for the third year in a row, with the median price trending downward year over year.A…