As colleges and universities across Maine confront increasing federal inquiries and regulatory pressure, as well as a number of lawsuits,…
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The proceedings over Central Maine Power’s latest request for a rate increase have taken another unprecedented turn. On Wednesday, the Maine…
A pregnant resident of Lincoln County, with the backing of a grassroots organizing group, …
On June 10, Tom Hill was at his office in Sydney, Australia, when his phone pinged with a notification: the U.S. Senate Democratic primary…
On July 24, a research crew studying puffins on Eastern Egg Rock spread out among the boulders to mark burrows where they had seen birds…
Maine health care providers are grappling with how to prepare for more patients without insurance.
As…
The Democratic primary for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat concluded more than a month ago, with social worker Paige Loud finishing…
The fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford earlier this month marked the second time federal immigration…
At the Piscataquis County Jail in Dover-Foxcroft, the smallest in the state, corrections officers sometimes spend hours a day administering…
Few things have been certain in the mad dash for Maine Democrats to replace Graham Platner as the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate.
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One day this spring, Sgt. Ryan Close went into the secure evidence room at the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and retrieved a heavy-duty…
Candidates for the Maine Legislature have to file personal financial statements ahead of the general election that disclose how they and…
After years of planning, the Maine state government is seeking a contractor to run a program that aims to cut down on packaging waste, but…
By June 10 the fish were supposed to have come and gone already, but there they were. At first, they looked like a shadow in the water. On…
In addition to the thousands of Mainers who showed up to vote in the primary election last month, 125 volunteers appeared at polling stations…
The first official survey of Maine housing building activity shows the state made progress toward its housing goals last year. But the data…
At a dinner at the White House in February 2025, President Donald Trump turned to Gov. Janet Mills and threatened to withhold federal funding…
The state has begun rolling out changes to its system of behavioral health services for children covered by MaineCare, the state’s version of…
A printer jam. Spreadsheet issues. Mixed-up memory sticks. A two-hour warning that turned into a four-and-a-half hour wait. A livestream…
On Tuesday, Central Maine Power customers sounded off about their electricity bills at a public hearing on the utility company’s…
Roughly 50 people decked out in rainbow garb streamed out of First Parish Unitarian Universalist in downtown Portland last Saturday morning…
Maine voters have become more familiar with ranked-choice voting since they adopted it statewide a decade ago. But Maine has never seen a…
Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced her reelection campaign in February by posting a video that showed her opening a box of New…
At the Maine State House last week, Republican candidate for governor David Jones showed voters how he would rank himself and other GOP…
The State of Maine has a formal process for political candidates to remove themselves from the ballot if they decide to withdraw from an…
The proposed expansion of the Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town and Alton comes as Maine grapples with where to put the PFAS-contaminated…
Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat from Maine, has developed a reputation for voting against the Democratic Party in major moments — he was the…
During a hearing at the Maine State House earlier this month, the secretary of state’s office heard testimony from an unlikely source: a man…
When Lincoln County Commissioner William Blodgett, 89, retires at the end of the year, he is all but guaranteed to be replaced in the role by…
The state’s public university system plans to award its first contract for an artificial intelligence platform to ChatGPT Edu, an OpenAI chatbot tool for higher…
As more people in Maine and New England buy heat pumps and electric vehicles, power grid operator ISO New England expects electricity use in the region to grow by about…
More than 400 Christian Mainers gathered in and around a large tent erected in the shadow of the Maine State Capitol in Augusta last week, braving the mud with camp…
Mainers decided to begin using ranked-choice voting in elections for the state Legislature, governor and federal offices all the way back in November of 2016 — the…
Graham Platner’s since-deleted Reddit comments became a flashpoint during his Democratic primary campaign against Gov. Janet Mills for U.S. Senate, but they didn…
Washington County farmers face mounting economic uncertainty, but they will not see a proposal for relief funds on the November ballot.
Lawmakers made several…
A quarter of rural voters in U.S. Senate battleground states said they are more likely to make voting decisions based on their faith than on their finances, according…
After Maine’s red flag law was passed via ballot referendum last fall, advocates expressed hope that the law would expand pathways for family members to get dangerous…
In 2022, the Maine Legislature took a rare step and required municipalities to adjust local zoning rules in an effort to spur housing construction, a move that…
Nearly four dozen water systems that provide drinking water across Maine would be at risk of violating new limits on “forever chemicals” if the state began…
Maine lawmakers passed the nation’s first statewide ban on large data centers Tuesday in what they say is an attempt to buy time and study how the power-hungry…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Library Commission met Monday for the first of two special meetings to begin drafting new public library standards.
The meeting, which the…
Maine has spent just over a third of the opioid settlement funds it has received during the past four years, according to new data released this week by the Maine…
A tax generated by property sales helps power Maine’s various affordable housing initiatives, including a program that assists first-time home buyers and another to…
MACHIAS — Farm owners and land stewards in Washington County will have to wait to see whether a $45 million funding package is coming their way after state legislators…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights …
Last year, a federal government decision to eliminate grant funding for counselors, social workers and other mental health professionals left some Maine schools without…
As religious tensions rise, synagogues and other houses of worship in Maine look to beef up security
It’s been seven years since Scott Nussinow became the chair of a new safety and security committee at Temple Shalom, a Jewish synagogue in Auburn, and started thinking…
When the town of Brooks first envisioned the brick school near its crossroads in the 1930s, it was designed to hold up to 350 students. By the time the town voted to…
Steven Michaud stepped down on March 1 as president of the Maine Hospital Association after serving 26 years as the state’s top lobbyist for hospitals and after being…
Maine and New England must choose between two divergent paths for how to generate electricity in the coming years, according to two noteworthy reports released this…
