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Leslie Ludtke, the New Hampshire Insurance Department's key health-care policy analyst, has been fired by the agency following a dispute in which she criticized the department for improperly using a competitive bidding process to achieve a politically acceptable result concerning…

Good news for pancake lovers everywhere: The 2011 maple syrup season was New Hampshire's best on record, surpassing the 100,000-gallon mark for the first time ever."It was an exceptional year all around," said Robyn Pearl, publicist for the New Hampshire…

Hanover-based plasma cutting technology manufacturer Hypertherm has announced plans to hire and train up to 16 CNC machine apprentices this summer.Working in partnership with River Valley Community College in Claremont and the federal government through the STAR program, workers accepted…

"It's a magnificent day and a bittersweet day, but the shareholders had to be our only concern," summed up Timberland Company CEO Jeffrey Swartz about Monday's $2 billion sale of the company his father founded some 25 years ago to…

Federal statistics that show New Hampshire's economy to have grown at a slower pace last year than every other state in New England are probably in error, according to at least one New Hampshire economist.The U.S. Department of Commerce earlier…

A survey by Business Insider magazine says the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover is one of the world's best graduate business schools.Tuck was ranked eighth among the world's top 50 business schools, beating out similar…

Ratings agency Moody's is giving its approval to a new series of bonds issued by the University System of New Hampshire, pointing out it thinks the system can weather the fiscal storm brought on by deep state budget cuts.Moody's assigned…

The ratings of some of New Hampshire Municipal Bond Bank's outstanding general resolution bonds have been downgraded, according to Fitch Ratings. They are still considered quality bonds, but Fitch did put the bonds on a negative rating watch.Fitch assigned $667…

The number of foreclosed deeds reported in April fell by 26 percent from March, according to the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority.The authority said 404 foreclosures were reported in New Hampshire in April, compared to 543 reported in March.But April's…

The number of newly hired workers in New Hampshire has remained essentially unchanged for the third consecutive month, according to new figures released by the New Hampshire Department of Economic Security.The department reported 16,383 new employees were added to New…