A $105 million transportation bond was on track to pass in Maine’s Tuesday election, marking the fifth straight year that road and bridge borrowing has passed as lawmakers consider overhauling the funding system. Read More
As expected, voter turnout in Maine’s biggest cities was low in an off-year Tuesday election with few major races. Read More
Mainers will vote on Tuesday with high- and low-profile local races and a state bond question that would mean big money for the transportation system. Read More
The U.S. Corps of Army Engineers will hold a December public hearing in Lewiston on Central Maine Power’s proposed $1 billion corridor project to bring Hydro-Quebec power through a 145-mile transmission line through western Maine. Read More
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The two sets of complaints were referred by the city of Portland to the Maine Ethics Commission on Monday. Read More
It's a move that could lead to punishment for at least one group in the final week of the wide-open election. Read More
It’s unclear what role LePage will play in the race, but his early backing could give Dale Crafts an instant shot of credibility with donors and party activists unfamiliar with him. Read More
Maine will vote on a people’s veto effort aimed at repealing a new school vaccination law passed by the Democratic-led Legislature after Secretary of State Matt Dunlap’s office said Thursday the effort qualified for the March 2020 ballot. Read More
Collins has still raised nearly $8.6 million ahead of the 2020 election, surpassing the campaign-long total for any Maine politician in history. Read More
Mayor Ethan Strimling is running for another four-year term in the liberal stronghold. In the nominally nonpartisan race, he’ll face two more centrist Democrats and a political outsider. Read More
The entry of Adrienne Bennett, a 40-year-old real estate agent, throws a wild card into a budding Republican primary in the swing district. Read More
If Central Maine Power can salvage its planned hydropower corridor through western Maine, it may have a new partner to thank: Yale University. Read More
The Maine Republican Party will hold a presidential primary in March as it looks to renominate President Donald Trump, following Democrats in using a new law allowing a move from party-run caucuses to the first nominating primaries here since 2000. Read More
Maine’s psychiatric hospital in Augusta is fully staffed for the first time in 20 years, though the state’s mental health system still faces challenges in housing patients in community settings and with staffing at a Bangor psychiatric facility that’s in a state of transition, according to a state watchdog. Read More
Congress has never removed a president from office, but it has begun the impeachment process three times, and since the first trial 151 years ago, there has been one constant — party-bucking votes from members of Maine’s delegation. Read More
Only one member of Maine’s congressional delegation had come out in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Tuesday announcement that the Democratic-led House of Representatives would begin an impeachment inquiry. Read More
A Warren spokesman didn’t elaborate on when the campaign planned to hire in Maine or the specifics of how those plans would be integrated with the Senate race. Read More
Gov. Janet Mills pledged Monday that Maine will have a carbon-neutral economy by 2045 in an address before a United Nations summit, tacking on the most ambitious goal of her tenure. Read More
Maine’s judicial branch said Friday it would lower the fine for a first violation of the new law banning the use of handheld devices while driving from $230 to $85 after the lawmaker who championed the bill said the initial amount was higher than intended. Read More
