One of the perks of being the majority party at the beginning of each decade is you get to decide the political boundaries for congressional, Executive Council, state Senate and state representative districts.

MARLBOROUGH, N.H. — A selectman says the board never intentionally violated the right-to-know law, even though Cheshire County Superior Court Judge Phillip P. Mangones cited nine violations in a recent decision.

New Hampshire's economy is the best in New England because for years we have managed to live, more or less, by former Gov. Mel Thomson's maxim: "Low taxes are the result of low spending." How long, though, can Granite Staters trust that their leaders will remain committed to that rule of governance?

After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood hires lots of outside lawyers. They make a great deal of money for the state, and for themselves. Not everyone is happy with that situation.