CONCORD, New Hampshire, Dec. 28 -- New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald issued the following news release: Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Christopher J. Wagner, and Laconia Police Chief Matthew Canfield announce further information regarding the ongoing suspicious death investigation in Laconia, New Hampshire. On December 24, 2019, officers from the Laconia Police Department responded to 103 Blueberry Lane, # 67, in Laconia. Upon arrival  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Dec. 17 -- The New Hampshire Employment Security issued the following news release: New Hampshire's preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November 2019 was 2.6 percent, unchanged from the October rate, which remained at 2.6 percent after revision. The November 2018 seasonally adjusted rate was 2.4 percent. Seasonally adjusted estimates for November 2019 placed the number of employed residents at 756,010, an increase of 1,410 from the previous month and a  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Dec. 27 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following electric order (No. 26,321) involving Liberty Utilities, New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Eversource Energy and Unitil Energy Systems: This order approves an increase to the Electric Assistance Program's income eligibility threshold from 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines to 60 percent of the New Hampshire state median income. I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY The Commission oversees the el  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Dec. 24 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following letter (No. DW 17-165): Re: Abenaki Water Company, Inc. Request for Change in Rates Extension of Time for Response to Staffs December 11 Letter To the Parties: On December 20, 2019, Omni Mount Washington, LLC (Omni) filed a letter requesting the Commission to allow it until January 13, 2020 to respond to Commission Staff's (Staff) December 11 letter. No responses to Omni's request have been fi  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Dec. 27 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following letter (No. DM 19-202) : To: Christine Britos, Manager, Abworth Energy, LLC d/b/a Abworth Energy, 17 Haynes Road, Deerfield, NH 03037 Re: Abworth Energy, LLC d/b/a Abworth Energy Application to Renew Registration as a Provider of Electric Aggregation Service Dear Ms. Britos: On December 19, 2019, Abworth Energy, LLC d/b/a Abworth Energy (Abworth Energy) submitted an application with the Comm  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Dec. 27 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following letter (No. DG 17-023): Re: Liberty Utilities (EnergyNorth Natural Gas) Corp. d/b/a Liberty Utilities NHPUC Tariff No. 8 Revision Adding Excess Flow Valves Northern Utilities, Inc. Excess Flow Valve Regulations Docket Closure To the Parties: The above-captioned dockets were opened in response to regulations promulgated by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration r  more

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado, Dec. 19 -- Colorado Mountain College issued the following news release: Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, president of Colorado Mountain College, and Dr. Tom Stritikus, president of Fort Lewis College, were elected to the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education, the major coordinating body for the nation's colleges and universities. They were selected Dec. 12 and their terms will begin in March 2020 after ACE2020, ACE's 102nd Annual Meeting. ACE's member  more

DURHAM, New Hampshire, Dec. 24 [TNSmedicalresearch-Journal of Biological Chemistry] -- The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release: Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have reported the first structural model for a key enzyme, and its activating protein, that can play a role in some genetically inherited eye diseases like retinitis pigmentosa and night blindness. "There has been substantial research on the biochemical pathway involving this enzyme, known as PDE  more