The agreement announced Friday settled a 2020 lawsuit over the use of the checkpoints in Woodstock, where the ACLU claimed that border agents conducted illegal searches and seizures.
New England
Medicaid expansion bill advances in New Hampshire
Four Republicans ended up voting for the Democratic version of the bill.
Bill forcing schools to inform parents about transgender children fails in New Hampshire
The bill had passed the Republican-dominated Senate in March along party lines. But while Republicans hold a razor-thin majority in the House, Democrats had a one-vote edge in attendance for Thursday’s session.
Historical marker dedicated to feminist, labor activist removed in New Hampshire
The marker is removed after 2 Republicans object because the woman honored, who was born in 1890, also chaired the U.S. Communist Party.
Stained glass shows Jesus with dark skin, stirring questions about race in New England
Experts are trying to determine the motivations of the artist, the church and the woman who commissioned the window in memory of her 2 aunts, both of whom married into families that had been involved in the Rhode Island slave trade.
4 wounded in shooting at New Hampshire graduation party, police say
The victims who were injured in the shooting in Manchester reported just before 5 p.m. Saturday included two women and two men, all in their 20s.
New Hampshire governor offers path to legalizing marijuana after state Senate rejects bill
New Hampshire is the only state in New England that makes it a crime to smoke pot recreationally.
New Hampshire Senate rejects marijuana legalization bill, leaving state an outlier in New England
Republicans, who control the Senate, dismissed the bill on a 14-10 vote.
Proposed transmission line would bring power from Canada to New Hampshire
The proposed 211-mile, $2 billion Twin State Clean Energy Link would enter the United States in Canaan, Vermont.
New Hampshire teeming with politicians as 2024 race shapes up
BOSTON — It may seem like it’s some time away here in the Bay State, but for residents of the first-in-the-nation primary state just to our north, it would be impossible to ignore the steady beat of the political war drums through their cities and towns. Despite the year and a half standing between now […]