Teresa Rhodes Rosenberger, director of government affairs for the Manchester-based law firm of Devine Millimet & Branch, has been named FairPoint Communications’ New Hampshire state president. In her new job, Rosenberger, whose appointment as FairPoint’s president was announced Monday, will…
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the temporary help services sector added 47,000 jobs nationally in December. And since July, employment in the sector has increased by 166,000.According to data released by the New Hampshire…
Q.Clean Green Energy Systems LLC, a development-stage company in the greater Salem area, is looking for ways to commercialize its break-through understanding of photosynthesis in seaweed and how that process can be used to produce low cost, low carbon energy…
Will paying people who are working out of the state’s unemployment trust fund paradoxically stop the fund from hemorrhaging?Yes, say state officials, and they might be right — but to a small degree. The programs won’t save that many jobs,…
NHBR's editors recently met at the Hannah Grimes Center in Keene with businesspeople from around the region to get their take on how the region's economy is faring during the recession, and what their expectations are for the future.The participants…
Unitil Corp. won't have to pay a nearly $5 million fine for taking too long to restore power for its Massachusetts electric customers during the 2008 ice storm, but it will have to take a loss for about the same…
New Hampshire is among 32 states that will divvy up a $3 million settlement from Vonage Holdings Corp., one of the largest Internet phone service providers, putting and end to an investigation into some of the company's business practices. According…
New Hampshire's unemployment rate dropped by four-tenths of a percent in October, led by an increase in state and local government employment. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October stood at 6.8 percent, 0.4 percent lower than the 7.2 percent…
The bad news is that homes in October are selling for less they were at the same time last year in New Hampshire. The good news is more of them are selling, and the time it takes to sell them…
Rochester, N.H.-based BrandPartners Group Inc. has filed suit against two former executives, charging they stole proprietary information to start their own business and to land a job with a competitor. In separate filings, the company said that Frank Beardsworth of…
