Maine courts have agreed to hear the latest arguments about the state's failure to enact voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Read More
“It now appears that she’s turning down all three options even though her attorney said earlier this week that she would come testify." Read More
State officials have refused to renew an education credential for a former Westbrook lawmaker, following allegations of sexual misconduct with female students. Read More
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins wanted lawyers for Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who says he sexually assaulted her to be cross-examined by lawyers, but it's unclear if the woman will testify before a Senate panel. Read More
Democratic candidate Janet Mills attempted to lay claim Tuesday to a key issue in the four-way race for governor — the economy. Read More
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The candidates in Maine's 2nd District are extending their fight on guns, while gubernatorial hopefuls are working to define themselves as Democrat interests rush into the race. Read More
The Maine senator hasn't yet joined two Republicans calling for a delay in Brett Kavanaugh's nomination after a woman came forward publicly to back her claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school. Read More
President Donald Trump on Monday defended Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her when the two were in high school, praising him as “one of the finest people” and signaling that he supports a proposed hearing on the allegations. Read More
Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said ballots are being printed and election preparations are going forward, despite Gov. Paul LePage's veto of additional money needed to conduct the fall election. Read More
That is a scenario that Republican Party officials had hoped to avoid. Read More
The Maine Republican has said that Democrats had wrongly “cast a cloud of doubt” on both Ford and Kavanaugh by not coming out with this information sooner. Read More
Steven McGrath, who led the Governor’s Energy Office since August 2017, left that job on Friday. Read More
Debra S. Katz, the attorney for the woman, Christine Blasey Ford, said her client considered the incident to be an attempted rape. Read More
The prognosis comes amid a darkening mood among Republican officials as the November election nears. Read More
The effort aims to solve a long-term, growing problem in Maine’s home health care system, but is already drawing spirited resistance to the tax and regulatory regime it would erect. Read More
Speaking publicly for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend — both “stumbling drunk,” Ford alleges — corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County. Read More
Sweeping changes proposed to the federal Endangered Species Act have conservation groups and others alarmed about protecting plants and animals on the verge of extinction in Maine and around the country. Read More
Context is everything. The New York Times realized this after the fact. Read More
State Sen. Andre E. Cushing III, R-Newport, who was forced to step down from a leadership role due to election ethics violations, is running for a seat on the Penobscot County Commission. Read More
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday “categorically” denied an allegation of potential sexual misconduct when he was in high school that has roiled the final days of an already contentious confirmation fight in the Senate. Read More
Paul Manafort relented to a year of withering legal pressure by pleading guilty to charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and is providing some cooperation with the U.S. Justice Department. Read More
“When I have a caller who tells a young staffer in my office who does case work that he hopes she is raped and impregnated, we have really reached a new low." Read More
Violence against the media isn’t new — history shows why it largely disappeared and has now returned
This isn’t news. Violent acts against the media are as old as our nation. Read More
The 128th Maine Legislature, which presided over a state shutdown last year and stretched nearly five months past its scheduled end in 2018, closed its work for the year on Thursday — but not without dealing with Gov. Paul LePage’s late threat to call it back. Read More
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday that she received a letter from a person about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and referred it to federal investigators. Read More
Kavanaugh wrote that he assumed the man who approached him "and touched my arm" during a break at the Senate Judiciary Committee proceedings had been one of the many protesters in the hearing room. Read More
The president’s eldest son is coming to Maine in October to raise funds for the state Republican Party and its challenger to U.S. Sen. Angus King. Read More
