William Skipworth, New Hampshire Bulletin

The Republican-backed bill sought to create exceptions to the state’s antidiscrimination law, which protects people from discrimination on the basis of “gender identity” and other characteristics. Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a nearly identical bill last year.

Cassandra Sanchez said she is ‘pretty confident’ she is losing her job over statements she made to oppose anti-LGBTQ legislation.

In 2025, the New Hampshire Bulletin published a series of articles outlining abuse and neglect — sometimes fatal — committed by caretakers against people with disabilities. The stories also uncovered systemic failures of oversight and prevention that allowed the abuse and neglect to happen.

The Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention wrote a letter to Gov. Ayotte urging her to reconsider the decision. The organization noted that approximately 30% of women in New Hampshire experience obesity.

This is the third in a three-part series by the NH Bulletin on New Hampshire’s intellectual and developmental disability care system.

At the time of his death, Stephen “Stevie” Weidlich Jr. in a home run by PathWays with a live-in caregiver, a service people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are legally entitled to receive through Medicaid and other state and federal dollars.

State records show 119 people died in New Hampshire’s intellectual and developmental disability system from January 2023 through the first six months of 2025. Of those deaths, at least 22 were categorized under “unknown” cause of death.

Though the state's top business official couldn’t say for sure what’s driving this decrease, he floated the strained relations between the U.S. and Canada as a possible culprit.

The state will place a $3.50 per ton surcharge on all solid waste taken at any of the state’s six active landfills or its waste-to-energy facility.

Lt. Chris Storm of the New Hampshire State Police told state senators in April that wrong-way driving is a big problem in the state and that law enforcement receives reports of it nearly every day.