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Knowing one bill faced a tough second vote before the House, its prime sponsor, Rep. Dan Wolf, a Newbury Republican, came to Monday’s finance subcommittee meeting ready to compromise.

The state said the new rules are more inclusive, and give doctors more flexibility to recommend it for at-risk patients.

On the first day of January, people all over the world dive into the water as a way to start the new year fresh. It’s often referred to as a “polar plunge."But cold water dipping is different.

El objetivo de observar el Día de Muertos en Holyoke Community College es enseñar a los estudiantes sobre las diferentes culturas.

In his August veto message, Gov. Chris Sununu said the plant has been “enormously expensive for New Hampshire ratepayers."

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.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the latest international efforts to organize an emergency relief operation for one million Rwandan refugees stranded by the fighting in eastern Zaire. The Clinton administration is studying a French proposal for a multinational force that would protect the refugees and help them return safely to Rwanda. But there are many obstacles to overcome, not the least of which is the Hutu refugees' fear of returning to Tutsi-controlled Rwanda.

Danny speaks to Rwanda's Ambassador to the United States, Theogene Rudasingwa. The Rwandan diplomat says the return of the refugees back home obviates the need for a multinational force, whose original mission was to secure the refugees against attacks by Hutu militiamen. With the militamen now on the run, Rudasingwa says his country can be responsible for security. But he now wants international donors who sustained the refugees in their camps to give the funds to Rwanda for their resettlement.

Daniel talks with Harlan Hale, Assistant Director of Food and Logistics for the relief organization, CARE. Hale is in Kigali, Rwanda to help organize food distribution and other aid for returning refugees. The plan is to provide one months of food rations for those refugees and to establish work programs. To complicate matters, between 80-thousand and 100-thousand refugee homes are currently occupied by squaters who will need to be re-settled.

Sebastian Fuentes, a Thornton resident who emigrated from Peru in the early 2000s, found himself stopped three times for significant periods at the N.H. highway checkpoint.