Executive Council

Youth counselors and juvenile probation officers at the state-run youth detention center have been forced to work overtime to cover vacancies.

The organization will also continue providing certain in-home services in Strafford and Hillsborough counties after initially announcing closures last week.

More than half of the youth counselor positions at the Sununu Youth Services Center are vacant, primarily due to staff injuries, as volatile incidents continue.

Retired Judge Gerard Boyle told councilors he is slashing $200 hourly consultant rates to reduce the fund’s administrative costs.

Facing a budget shortfall, retired Judge Gerard Boyle aims to cut administrative costs to preserve funding for settlements with people abused at the former state-run youth detention center.

The Department of Health and Human Services disputed allegations by two councilors that it had employed an individual on the sex offender registry.

The Department of Corrections accepted delivery of $2 million worth of new Tasers without first getting approval for the purchase. The NH Attorney General says no laws were broken.

Diana Fenton’s husband, a judge, tried to use his position to expedite the couple’s guardianship case, according to a Judicial Conduct Committee reprimand.

A majority of Executive Council members declined to support Taylor Caswell’s reappointment to lead the Business and Economic Development agency, despite the governor’s backing.

As Republicans threaten impeachment, the Lebanon Democrat says she's doing her job the old-fashioned way.