118 stories 2025–2026
In Census 2020-2024 estimates, 38,414 New Hampshire households had no internet subscription. The state's BEAD build covers 5,135 locations for $18.6 million.
FBI figures for 2024: 138 of 200 New Hampshire police agencies had 10 or fewer full-time officers. What RSA 106-L requires each one to do with complaints.
About 37% of New Hampshire homes tested for radon were at or above the EPA action level. State test data, lung cancer risk, well water, the sale law, free kits.
New Hampshire amendments need two-thirds of voters. From 1986 to 2024, nine won a majority and failed anyway; the 2024 judicial retirement age got 65.6 percent.
New Hampshire public school enrollment fell 20.1% from fall 2000 to fall 2023, the largest share of any state. Federal counts by year, grade and projection.
NH Housing's 2024 rent survey: median two-bedroom $1,833, from $1,161 in Coos County to $2,923 in Lebanon. County and city tables, and a 156% figure checked.
New Hampshire has had the lowest estimated poverty rate of any state in every Census estimate since 2007. In Coos County the rate is 13.8%, nearly double.
BLS estimates put New Hampshire union membership at 9.2% for 2024 and 8.9% for 2025, lowest in New England. The 2012-2025 record, the caveats and RSA 273-A.
Federal Wiretap Reports for 2016-2025 list two wiretaps by New Hampshire state judges and 24 by federal judges in the state. What RSA 570-A requires of each.
SB 468 became law over Gov. Ayotte's veto Aug. 19, 2026. NH medical cannabis centers may seek approval to grow in greenhouses under rules DHHS must adopt.
Lake Winnipesaukee ice-out dates since 1887: a USGS record averages April 20, with two March calls before 2010 and four or more since. Earliest: March 17, 2024.
A New Hampshire man went to jail rather than pay fines for covering Live Free or Die on his plate. His 1977 Supreme Court win still shapes compelled-speech law.
A civil case and a criminal case answer different questions. How New Hampshire splits them: burden of proof, who gets a lawyer, and what a win is worth.
New Hampshire's private investigator law exempts reporters for accredited news outlets, but no statute defines the word and no agency accredits the press.
The 1898 Treaty of Paris left the status of the Philippines and Puerto Rico to Congress. How the 1899 Senate vote and the Insular Cases built an empire.
What an admitted attorney, an attorney-in-fact under a power of attorney, and a citizen of good character under RSA 311:1 can legally do in NH.
How RICO works, how it broke the Mafia, why its limits sit in DOJ policy rather than law, and why New Hampshire never passed its own version.
A guide to civil rights suits against police in NH: qualified immunity, filing deadlines, damage caps, body-camera records and the first steps to take.
New Hampshire funds towns and schools mostly through property taxes. The four lines on your bill, why school costs dominate, and the Claremont cases.
Discover the tumultuous disaffiliation of New Hampshire's Libertarian Party after controversial remarks from chair Jeremy Kauffman.
