Jon Kiper, the independent candidate who had announced a bid for New Hampshire governor, failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for November’s gubernatorial election. Kiper needed 3,000 voters’ signatures to get his name on the ballot. He said he collected only about 500. He blamed his failure to collect the signatures partly on the […]

Gov. Kelly Ayotte has again vetoed legislation to keep transgender people out of bathrooms, sports teams, and prisons that align with their gender identity.  The veto came as part of the final tranche of bills sent to the governor from this year’s legislative session. And it was one of three bills Ayotte blocked Wednesday. There […]

At a bill signing ceremony, New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte said she “still supports” funding for the Granite Steps for Quality and childcare workforce grant programs.  Last month, the Bulletin reported that the state’s Executive Council has continued to vote down a contract that would provide over $1 million to Granite Steps for Quality, New […]

Cassandra Sanchez, who has served as New Hampshire’s child advocate since 2022, said she will exit the role on July 24. Sanchez has been on holdover status since January, when Gov. Kelly Ayotte decided she wouldn’t reappoint her for a second term. The Office of the Child Advocate was established in 2018 as an independent […]

Nearly two years into her tenure, Gov. Kelly Ayotte has become comfortable with a veto pen.  The Republican governor vetoed nine bills Thursday, many of them lightning-rod political issues and priorities of lawmakers in her party. Months before the November general election, she took a red pen to conservative proposals to increase book removals in […]

A Republican effort to keep transgender people out of restrooms, sports teams, and other spaces in New Hampshire that align with their gender identity has again been stymied in the State House’s corner office. Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed Senate Bill 552, sometimes called a “bathroom bill,” Friday. The bill would’ve created exceptions to New Hampshire’s […]

When the state Department of Fish and Game proposed an increase to the cost of hunting and fishing licenses earlier this year, the feedback the agency received from hunters and anglers was largely positive, officials said. But shortly after those information-gathering sessions, the department pulled back the changes until at least next year, a move […]

As Gov. Kelly Ayotte seeks to fend off challengers in her reelection bid, her top Democratic challenger, Cinde Warmington, has sought to make Medicaid — and the several changes to the program Ayotte forced through the Legislature in 2025 — a key issue of the race. Warmington, a former executive councilor from Concord, and Jon […]