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Nashua-based Brookstone Thursday reported increases in total net sales and same-store sales for the fourth quarter. Total net sales and same-store sales for the fiscal year also increased for the quarter ending Dec. 30. Total net sales increased by 13.3…

The state Senate approved a bill Thursday that would give municipalities the right to negotiate open-ended in-lieu-of-taxes agreements with renewable energy facilities. Current law limits in-lieu-of-taxes agreements to five years, but those involved in such facilities contend that their financing…

A study released Wednesday lists Nashua among 28 US cities most vulnerable to experiencing significant job losses over the next 10 years because of the practice of offshoring work to lower-wage countries. In “The Implications of Service Offshoring for Metropolitan…

Concord-based quarrier Rock of Ages made dramatic improvements in its fourth-quarter 2006 operating income, although revenues and profits were still down from 2005 numbers. Operating income for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2006, was $3.5 million versus $1.8 million in…

Despite the united opposition of business groups, the New Hampshire House passed a bill Wednesday that would put make it more likely for insurance companies, corporations or governments entities pay full damages in a lawsuit, even when they are only…

The state attorney general and the owner of three of New Hampshire’s largest shopping malls have agreed to settle a portion of a lawsuit filed by the state over the malls’ gift cards. The attorney general’s office filed suit in…

A date has been set to start the retrial in US District Court in Concord of Enterasys Networks’ former chief operating officer. But it remains to be seen whether the U.S. attorney’s office will actually prosecute Jerry Shanahan, the former…

A bill limiting liability in lawsuits, which appeared to be sailing though the legislative process, has suddenly run into a hornet’s nest of opposition from business groups. House Bill 143 would, in essence, reverse state Supreme Court decisions allowing a…

Wall Street reacted warmly to StockerYale’s latest earnings report, even though it the Salem-based optics firm is still losing money. The firm’s stock price jumped by as much as a quarter Friday morning to a 52-week high of $1.81 a…

The state Senate agreed last week to give the Department of Employment Security the funding it wants when it comes to job training and administration, but not without a little debate. The agency sought to double the amount it gets…