Looks like the top executives in the New Hampshire Liquor Commission are going to get pay raises of nearly 5 percent.

Gov. Chris Sununu is telling key state officials to prepare for a possible budget veto, which would leave the state with no budget as of June 30.

Now that the House has completed action on its bills and is moving on to Senate-passed bills, it’s time to take stock of legislation that was neither approved nor killed, but tabled. Tabled bills will die at the end of the session unless revived, which at this point would take a two-thirds vote.

It's unusual to hear the chairman of the House Criminal Justice Committee allude to a ZZ Top song from the early 1980s during committee deliberations.

The House has no voting sessions scheduled this week, which is probably a good thing, since a cooling off period is definitely in order.

Rep. Dennis Fields wants it known he was unaware of the meaning behind the pearls when he was handed them on his way into the hearing.

There is a law that requires hundreds of upper-level state employees and commission appointees to file financial disclosure forms.

It may be school vacation week in New Hampshire, but there’s no vacation for the House of Representatives.

Republicans in New Hampshire agreed to extend the program beyond its sunset in December, but only if a work, training or community service requirement was added for able-bodied adults not taking care of children.

REP. PATRICK Abrami, R-Stratham, stopped by the State House newsroom at the State House on Friday to make a good point about the history of efforts to legalize marijuana in the state.

The battle over guns in the House of Representatives is most likely headed to court.

It's not often that senior executives from state agencies are called to the Executive Council table to justify their pay increases.

The question of who gets to take pictures or videos during committee hearings could be the next confrontation between the Democratic majority and Republican minority in the House.

When Democratic senators outlined policy priorities for their new majority at a State House press conference on Jan. 2, additional funding for the state’s beleaguered child protection agency was high on their agenda.

The debate over rules governing firearms in the House chamber and mandatory sexual harassment training for all representatives got most of the attention last week, but there were other votes of some consequence.

With majorities in both the House and Senate, Democrats are expected to pass a marijuana legalization bill early in the upcoming session.

With all due apologies to The Bard, it’s starting to look like last week’s brouhaha over the state’s effort to impose a work requirement on certain Medicaid recipients was a lot of sound and fury of little immediate consequence.

The last weeks of the year, usually a fairly quiet time at the State House, have been anything but.

Despite losing their majority in the New Hampshire House, there’s no shortage of Republicans anxious to serve as minority leader when lawmakers reconvene in January.

When it comes to the opioid crisis in the Granite State, the mantra is shifting from “show me the money” to “show me the data.”

A lot of people at the State House are eagerly awaiting the response from Attorney General Gordon MacDonald to an inquiry from state Sen. Harold French, R-Franklin.