William Skipworth, New Hampshire Bulletin

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.

Since January, the Trump administration has targeted biomedical research in a number of ways.

In 2016, PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, were discovered in hundreds of wells in the area surrounding the company’s Merrimack facility and many more have been discovered in the years since.

In 2022, Dover, Rochester, and 10 residents filed a lawsuit alleging that the state’s maps violated the New Hampshire Constitution.

“I’m trying to find a middle ground that the House will accept,” Sen. Sharon Carson, who is spearheading the proposal, said.