Preliminary counts for enrollment across Maine’s seven public universities and law school show that student enrollment could exceed 28,000 this school year…
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On May 25, 2024, more than 100 people gathered on the site of a potential land-based fish farm along the Little River in Belfast. The protest followed six…
Maine’s seagrass meadows are shrinking and thinning. And this isn’t the only place where seagrass is declining. These underwater meadows off Maine’s coast…
On a sunny afternoon in early August, the hot air rippled above a sandbar in Casco Bay as a group of researchers dove into the water. Wearing wetsuits and…
For years, Maine residents and visitors alike have flocked to Popham Beach in Phippsburg expecting to see a variety of shells, seabirds and rock…
The Maine Public Utilities Commission met on Thursday to hear testimony from expert witnesses on a previously obscure financial metric that has become a…
The University of Maine System, which oversees the state’s public universities, will now accept credentials that high schoolers earn through the long-time…
EASTPORT — A controversial underwater artificial intelligence data center proposed in the Bay of Fundy, near Kendall Head off the northern coast of…
On a sticky August morning in Phippsburg, Cait Cleaver, an assistant professor of environmental studies at Colby College, crouched along a section of rocky…
Wendy Brennan agreed to participate in a study examining how arsenic exposure can affect children’s cognitive development primarily because her young…
As Maine’s aging population grapples with complex health needs and rural hospitals struggle with workforce shortages, the state is looking for ways to…
As colleges and universities across Maine confront increasing federal inquiries and regulatory pressure, as well as a number of lawsuits, some have seen…
The proceedings over Central Maine Power’s latest request for a rate increase have taken another unprecedented turn. On Wednesday, the Maine Public…
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 race in Maine…
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 delivering fish to…
Maine health care providers are grappling with how to prepare for more patients without insurance.
As premiums rose…
The Democratic primary for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat concluded more than a month ago, with social worker Paige Loud finishing last in the…
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 lockbox…
Candidates for the Maine Legislature have to file personal financial statements ahead of the general election that disclose how they and their spouses make…
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 closer…
In addition to the thousands of Mainers who showed up to vote in the primary election last month, 125 volunteers appeared at polling stations across the…
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 Medicaid.…
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 broadcast that…
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 as music…
Maine voters have become more familiar with ranked-choice voting since they adopted it statewide a decade ago. But Maine has never seen a ranked-choice…
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 contenders in a…
The State of Maine has a formal process for political candidates to remove themselves from the ballot if they decide to withdraw from an election, and to…
The proposed expansion of the Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town and Alton comes as Maine grapples with where to put the PFAS-contaminated sludge that…
Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat from Maine, has developed a reputation for voting against the Democratic Party in major moments — he was the only Democrat…
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 calling in…
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 a younger man…
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 education, the system…
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 9 percent…
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 chairs and hiking…
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 first state in 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 attempts to…
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 to a new poll.…
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 weapons out of…
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 generated a fierce…
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…
