New Hampshire, 13 other states and several consumer and environmental groups have reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy calling for updated efficiency standards for a wide variety of common appliances. Under the deal - which ends a…
Wayne’s words There may be a reason that the state Republican Party is currently sleeping with the fishes. Days before the election state GOP Chairman Wayne Semprini told a Lakes Region Republican rally: “You can either fish or cut bait.…
New Hampshire Technical Institute Professor Terry Simkin had been planning to retire in May. But over two years ago he began preparing a new NHTI degree program offering an associate in science in Animation and Graphic Game Programming, and the program…
Lindt USA, the U.S. subsidiary of the Swiss chocolatier, officially began work earlier this month on a 300,000-square-foot expansion of its production and distribution facility at the Stratham Industrial Park. A Nov. 13 ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion was attended…
Portsmouth Regional Hospital has unveiled plans for what its CEO calls a “very ambitious” $63 million expansion project — the largest in the hospital’s history. William J. Schuler, the hospital’s chief executive officer and president, said the plan’s “scope and…
New Hampshire college graduates are leaving school with the highest level of education-related debt in the country, according to the Berkeley nonprofit group Project on Student Debt. According to the data reported by 1,400 college students from four-year colleges and…
New Hampshire has the most registered nurses per capita in the United States, according to a new report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University at Albany’s School of Public Health. According to the report, “The United…
When New Hampshire skiers hit the slopes this winter, they will have fewer choices than they did 30 years ago - a lot fewer, considering the state has lost approximately 60 percent of its downhill ski areas since the 1970s.…
The New England economy is expected to experience slow growth, and uncertainty in the housing market could have a significant negative influence in the region, says economist Ross Gittell in his latest regional forecast. Gittell, a University of New Hampshire…
Once upon a time, American women gathered at quilting bees to create and socialize, and that’s something Christine Wheeler and Karen Boyd sought to recapture when they opened their Manchester paper-crafts studio. The studio, Talk, Paper, Scissors, which opened in…
