The state has been slow to adopt rules to protect Florida's endangered springs. While a boom in residential construction has increased the amount of groundwater being taken from the aquifers.

New Yorkers fuming over the new $9 congestion toll to drive into Midtown Manhattan should instead pack up move to sunny Boca Raton, Florida, the mayor of the beachy coastal city said.

Florida abruptly changed its policy for changing gender markers in January last year without any public input.

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Florida rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 4,817 in the week ending January 3, up from 3,475 the week before, the Labor Department said.

A family expected to never again see their pet, Crouching Tiger, after she vanished from their home in New Hampshire 8 months ago. Then they got a surprising call from a shelter 700 miles away in Michigan — saying the black cat had come in as a stray, the Humane Society of Huron Valley said on Facebook.

Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly is part of a nationwide retail theft ring. The Gorham Police Department said officers responded to the Walmart on Main Street around 5:45 p.m. Thursday for a report of a man who had stolen over $60,000 worth of electronics from retail stores across the country.

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the coast of New Hampshire.

If a student is going to college online, part time, and especially if it’s their first college experience, the eight-year completion rates are even worse. At Southern New Hampshire University, only 14% of part-time, first-time online students complete in eight years or less.

The overall average breast cancer incidence rate in the U.S. was 131.8 per 100,000 and the overall average breast cancer mortality rate was 19.3 per 100,000. Among women in the U.S., breast cancer accounts for 32% of all cancer cases and 14% of all cancer deaths, the report found.

It’s been controversial since it was first introduced in 2021: a voucher-like program allowing families in New Hampshire to use public school money for private and religious education or homeschool expenses.

President Biden previously ordered that flags fly at half-staff until Jan. 28 to honor former President Jimmy Carter. Some states have decided to raise them.

A fast-growing airline that launched at Concord-Padgett Regional Airport last spring is canceling one of its new nonstop routes there.