From consolidating the 107 School Administrative Units to sunsetting the Pease Development Authority and embracing artificial intelligence to "compliment not replace" state workers, a 77-page report on improving state efficiency has been issued.

Anheuser-Busch InBev is closing its Merrimack brewery employing about 125 full-time employees in the next two months, officials said Thursday.

These disparities exist not because of individual behavior, but because of structural barriers: unequal access to care, implicit bias in clinical settings, a lack of culturally concordant providers, and the cumulative stress of navigating racism long before labor begins.

            English is indisputably the world language today, and how it got to be so is a topic well worth discussing, but in this column, I mean something else by planetary.

The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.