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The New Hampshire House voted Tuesday to allow health insurers to offer individual policies containing riders that exempt those policies from covering a policyholder’s pre-existing conditions. The House voted overwhelmingly, 333-16, to pass the bill. Supporters argued that even limited…

A new alliance formed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services’ OSHA Consultation Program and the New Hampshire Small Business Development Center is aimed at keeping the state’s smaller businesses up to date…

The Women’s Business Center is bringing its monthly WomenBiz Roundtables back to the Manchester area. Entrepreneurial women from the area are invited to attend the WBC’s Welcome Back Roundtable session on Wednesday, April 4. This first meeting will be held…

The nation’s biggest home mortgage lender started foreclosure procedures in violation of the law against a Strafford man on active military duty as a result of a one-day lapse in insurance payments, according to a suit filed last week in…

If a flu pandemic were to hit New Hampshire, a recession could follow in its wake, but the impact would be less severe than in many other states, says a new study on the economic effects of a global outbreak…

New Hampshire had the fourth-fastest growth rate in the nation for venture-backed company revenue between 2003 and 2005, according to a study by the National Venture Capital Association. The report, conducted by Waltham, Mass.-based Global Insight, indicates revenue for venture-backed…

The Senate passed a bill Thursday that would regulate home contractors, despite objections that the bill requires contractors to take a course that is thus bar only offered by the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of New Hampshire. The home…

Income inequality in New England is rising at the highest rate in the nation, according to a study by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. The study fund that, between 1989 and 2004, the region experienced the…

Kathy La Plante, longtime Director of the New Hampshire Main Street Center, is leaving her post next month to take a job with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. La Plante, the organization’s only director since its founding some 10…

Businesses affected by last spring’s flooding have one more month to submit applications for federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans from the Small Business Administration. In a statement the agency said the filing deadline for the loans is April 23. Eligible…