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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s conversion from “Never Trump” to “Ever Trump” occurred not on the road to Damascus but on the Republican Party’s road to perdition.On ABC News last Sunday, Sununu affirmed his intention to support Donald Trump for...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — The Democratic state senator who is challenging Republican incumbent Chris Sununu for the Granite State governorship in November said during a Tuesday visit to the Upper Valley that a new law that restricts abortion after 24 weeks of...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — There’s no such thing as a tax-free lunch — or at least there shouldn’t be, according to a number of New Hampshire town officials.Municipal administrators across the Granite State took umbrage after Gov. Chris Sununu suggested Wednesday that...

CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu is once again nominating Attorney General Gordon MacDonald as chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, this time under a GOP-led Executive Council that would have to approve his confirmation.The Republican governor...

By TODD BOOKMAN

After several weeks of protests near the private home of New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, the town of Newfields has enacted an ordinance banning such gatherings outside private residences.The ordinance, which was introduced by the Newfields...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

CONCORD — Starting Friday, Granite Staters will be required to wear masks indoors and outdoors when social distancing is not possible, Gov. Chris Sununu announced at a press conference Thursday.Until now, masks have only been required by the state at...

By TIM CAMERATO

LEBANON — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Feltes and Republican Gov. Chris Sununu’s campaigns traded barbs Thursday about the governor’s past statements regarding the Affordable Care Act and its future.Feltes, a three-term state senator from...

By TIM CAMERATO

HANOVER — Three of the biggest New Hampshire towns in the heart of the Upper Valley are considering mandatory requirements that people entering public spaces wear a face covering to slow the spread of the coronavirus.The Lebanon City Council will...

By RICK JURGENS

The illness and physical distancing of the COVID-19 pandemic have especially challenged thousands of New Hampshire residents with mental illness and substance use disorders.Ominously, the pandemic arrived in the early days of New Hampshire’s “10-Year...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s stay-at-home order through early May due to the COVID-19 pandemic extended more than two weeks longer than that issued by his neighboring governor, Phil Scott in Vermont.But it also excluded a long list of...

By ETHAN DeWITT

CONCORD — As New Hampshire health officials ready hospitals for an expected rise in coronavirus infections in the coming weeks, a top priority is where to put excess patients. In Manchester, that means Southern New Hampshire University, which this...

By SARAH EARLE

LEBANON — Earlier this month, 15-year-old Maddy Raymond did something she’d never done before: She finished reading a novel.This she accomplished during English class at Ledyard Charter School, where she transferred in September after a difficult...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WILDER — Luke Parmenter, a 41-year-old Hartford High School graduate, works three full-time jobs to make ends meet for his family.As a direct care provider, Parmenter cares for his wife’s grandmother in West Lebanon for part of the week; at other...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

SPRINGFIELD, N.H. — The final blow appears to have fallen on the struggling Springfield biomass power plant as the company that owns the facility is closing it and laying off workers in the wake of a failure to override Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of...

By ETHAN DeWITT

CONCORD — The New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission is establishing a search committee to find a new head of the Department of Fish and Game, a month after members voted to not recommend Director Glenn Normandeau for a fourth term.In an interview...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Gov. Chris Sununu thinks it is wrong for a U.S. president to solicit the help of a foreign leader to undermine political enemies, but that doesn’t mean the New Hampshire Republican supports the impeachment inquiry launched against President...

By TIM CAMERATO

LEBANON — Negotiators are closing in on a budget deal that would increase state education aid without raising taxes, Gov. Chris Sununu said on Monday.“We are very close to getting a budget done. We’re really close,” the two-term Republican told a...

In vetoing earlier this month three gun safety measures passed by the Legislature, Gov. Chris Sununu pronounced New Hampshire one of the safest states in the nation and touted its long and proud “tradition of responsible firearm stewardship.”Governor,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Gov. Chris Sununu signed a bill in late July that will increase scrutiny of health care mergers, such as the proposed combination of the parent organizations of Lebanon’s Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Manchester's Catholic Medical...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WEST LEBANON — Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of a bill to boost woodchip-burning electricity plants in New Hampshire is drawing criticism from North Country supporters who said it will harm the state’s forestry industry.Sununu on Friday vetoed HB183, which...

By TIM CAMERATO

WEST CANAAN — Republican Gov. Chris Sununu says he has no regrets about overruling state wildlife officials on how to handle nuisance Hanover bears, even after one of the animals migrated hundreds of miles from the Canadian board back to town.A...