Rick Green, Keene Sentinel

What to do with the Anna Hunt Marsh Bridge and the Charles Dana Bridge has become a matter of contention between the two towns.

Currently, tenants in most apartments in New Hampshire can’t legally be evicted, even at the end of their lease, without a good cause such as failure to pay rent, damaging the property, endangering others or not meeting rental terms. That will change under the new NH state law.

Keene City Manager Elizabeth Ferland said Monday city employees are training to use a state notification system to directly provide key information to residents in times of emergencies via recorded messages to phones and electronic messaging.

Backers of the legislation — "relative to prohibiting obscene or harmful sexual materials in schools" — said it would protect children from inappropriate material. Opponents contended it is tantamount to state-sanctioned book banning in New Hampshire.

Legalization bills have passed the New Hampshire House of Representatives several times in previous years only to die in the Senate. Last year, a legalization bill passed the Senate but didn’t clear the House.

The New Hampshire Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says legislation that has passed the state House and is pending in the Senate would cripple animal cruelty investigations in New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire House of Representatives passed the bill March 26 by a vote of 208 to 125. The full Senate will consider the bill later this spring.

The legislation is named 'Sherrill's Law' after New Hampshire State Police Trooper Jesse Sherrill, who was killed when a tractor-trailer hit his cruiser at a highway project on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth in 2021.

A man who once supervised the state's vehicle inspection program is now supporting legislation to end it.

State lawmakers are considering a bill that would close the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Health Equity.