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North Country officials late Tuesday packed a Senate hearing on a bill to let towns bond their own wireless or cable network to provide high-speed Internet service. House Bill 653 lets towns pay off the notes either with user fees…

Lawyers for former Enterasys Networks executives on trial for securities fraud are asking that the March 7 trial be postponed because federal prosecutors are interfering with the defense by instructing Enterasys not to pay the defendants’ legal costs and preventing…

The federal Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the University of New Hampshire’s new Enterprise Integration Research Center $990,000 to build a virtual network, linking state-based uniform commercial code databases with the federally based patent database. The grant is the…

Recycling in Manchester will become more convenient next week thanks to a new 10-year contract between the city, Pinard Waste Systems of Manchester and Corcoran Environmental Services of Kennebunk, Maine. Beginning March 1, Manchester residents will be able to place…

The state has lost 10 of the 53 property and casualty insurance companies that were incorporated here in 1997, along with 1,000 related jobs -- more than 10 percent of the industry's labor force. The New Hampshire House has spent…

George Bald, former commissioner of the state Department of Resources and Development, will officially be returning to the job in early April following the 3-1 vote yesterday by the Executive Council to confirm his appointment. The Somersworth resident, who served…

Verizon Wireless has expanded its cell phone coverage with a new cell site in Plaistow. The new site should increase coverage capacity along Routes 125 and 121A in Plaistow, the company said. - NHBR STAFF

A new study ranks New Hampshire’s housing industry 21st in the nation in terms of its economic impact to both the state and localities. According to the study, conducted by The National Association of Home Builders, the state’s housing construction…

The good news is that there will be several attempts in today’s House session to lower business taxes. The bad news: none of them has much of a chance. House Bill 1638 would cut the communications service tax from 7…

Troubled Nashua health sciences company Curative Health Services has been delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange for failing to maintain adequate share value. Previous warnings by Nasdaq required Curative to maintain at least $15 million in market value of publicly…