The Maine Library Commission is expected to consider a proposal Monday that would require public libraries to sign an agreement so they can maintain access to…
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On an October 18 trip to Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal, I noticed something about the forest canopy overhead: The red, orange and yellow …
As far as Kelly Smith is aware, there are no transgender athletes competing on sports teams in the Augusta school district. She’s running for the school board to help…
Maine schools, churches see growing interest in Turning Point USA after Charlie Kirk’s assassination
One idea seemed to be on everybody’s mind during the Cumberland County Republican Committee’s Friends of Charlie Kirk event on Oct. 21: revival.
Roughly 200…
Maine Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins are often split on issues — after all, she’s a Republican and he’s an independent who usually votes with Democrats.
But…
Maine’s shortage of affordable housing has led to calls to aggressively build new homes and apartments: up to 84,000 more by 2030, according to a 2023…
Mainers will see two big questions on the ballot this year: one about election procedures, and one about a potential red flag law.
Maine citizens can put…
Maine, once a national competitor in student achievement, now sits at or below the national average for standardized test performance.
While scores nationwide…
Maine’s test scores on a national standardized test have taken a staggering tumble since the 2000s, when Maine was hailed as one of the higher-performing states in the…
Maine is required to arrange visits between parents and children within seven days after the state removes children from their homes due to concerns about abuse or…
Some civil rights advocates are worried that Question 1 on next month’s referendum ballot could block incarcerated people’s right to vote.
The coalition Voter ID…
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Most Maine homes and small businesses can expect the cost of their electricity supply to go up in January.
Nine out of 10 Maine homes receive their electricity…
Maine is grappling with such a shortage of dentists that some doctors are adapting to treat early tooth decay themselves.
Most children in Maine don’t get an…
Sen. Bernie Sanders is warning Maine Gov. Janet Mills to keep out of the state’s midterm Senate race, while backing Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and veteran who…
The first time Sam Cheeney saw a green crab was in the early 2000s, as part of an ecology class at the University of Maine at Machias.
He and his classmates…
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At Neighbor’s Cupboard in Winterport, funding cuts aren’t the biggest challenge.
Phylis Allen spends her days looking for things. She searches for potatoes at Sam’s Club, cheap beets and ginger at Walmart and a local grocery store. She studies the…
When a campfire jumped its ring near a remote northern Maine lake last month, it took Maine Forest Rangers five days of …
The Maine State Police reviewed nearly three dozen complaints about troopers who used physical force in the past decade. Not once did the agency determine the force was…
The day he took office, President Donald Trump issued a …
In Technology Director Mike Arsenault’s office at the Yarmouth School Department, papers and boxes sat on his desk — some of it swag from the tech company MagicSchool,…
The training facility of the Maine Space Corporation, the quasi-governmental agency tasked with building the infrastructure for the state’s nascent space industry, sits…
St. George Municipal School District superintendent Mike Felton thought long and hard about opting into a Maine Department of Education program to have public school…
Waldo County officials are struggling to explain their use of public funds as locals have begun questioning oddities in the county commission’s records.
Missing…
Selma, an asylum seeker from Angola, moved to Texas at the start of the pandemic and then to Maine in January 2022. She fears persecution if she returns because of a…
Jane* was the breadwinner of the family, but her husband obsessively monitored their finances. Every week, he made her present a ledger of their income and expenses. If…
In 2023, experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Early last spring, while still cleaning up the wreckage of devastating winter storms, southern Maine towns began drafting new rules governing how they’d rebuild or…
When Lance Satterwhite rented a U-Haul and left his home in Texas for central Maine, he and his family didn’t yet have a place to live.
“We loaded up and headed…
A University of Maine initiative exploring ways to bring renewable energy to Indigenous and rural communities was gaining momentum this spring when the Trump…
John Chisholm has been interested in sharks as long as he can remember. Growing up in Plymouth, Mass. in the 1970s, he spent a lot of time searching for great whites on…
Johnnie Walker, director of housing and shelter services at Partners for Peace, has worked at the domestic violence resource center for 25 years. When she started…
Maine could have among the highest health insurance rate increases in the Northeast next year, according to Bob Carey, superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance…
Reverend Gwen Fry realized she was a transgender woman in 1976 as she watched the transgender tennis player Renée Richards fight to compete in the U.S. Open as a woman…
It would be hard to argue that Maine’s solar incentive program hasn’t been successful in spurring the development of small-scale solar projects. Since it was…
A new law expands who is eligible for charity care in Maine while federal Medicaid cuts are expected to push tens of thousands off public insurance.
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rsu 20 among districts rejecting proposed budget
A small group of people gathered in a sweltering cafetorium — a room that serves as both cafeteria and auditorium — at Gray-New Gloucester High School on…
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Federal rebates on new and used electric vehicles will now expire at the end of September
When shopping for a car, one rule of thumb is to time your purchase so…
Maine will end its transitional housing program for asylum seekers by the end of September, citing budget constraints and declined arrivals.
“The state…
The 24-acre lot for sale in Belfast, between Renys and Goodwill, is touted as “an ideal location for retail, office, or mixed-use development.”
But ads for the $…
After about 15 years in different health care settings, Brad Tuttle and his wife, Alley Tuttle, decided to leave traditional health care and start a direct primary care…
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On Tuesday morning, hundreds of thousands of Mainers woke up to higher electricity bills. Central Maine Power’s …
Modivcare, Penquis and Waldo Community Action Partners will continue to provide rides to medical appointments in their respective regions for another year amid a court…
Legislation signed by Gov. Janet Mills in June codified and fast-tracked Maine’s transition to 100 percent clean energy amid growing uncertainty about the future of…
Last year, when Syd Moore began work helping survivors of domestic violence find housing, they managed about eight cases. Now, Moore works with two dozen cases, with…
From a distance, what appears to be an old pontoon boat with a shade canopy was tugging at its mooring near an island in Casco Bay. Up close, the retrofitted pontoon is…
Two of Maine’s largest paper mills are among the dirtiest in the country, according to a new study on U.S. pulp and paper plants, putting their emissions on par with…
As the legislative session is expected to wind down, Gov. Janet Mills has already signed a number of bills into law, including ones that will establish new standards…
Summer vacation is officially underway, and — while it’s been rainy and cool these past few weeks — the months ahead are gearing up to be hotter than usual, per the…
