AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is holding six bills until the Legislature returns in January, including one that would set up rules for casinos.

AUGUSTA — A conservative think tank says the Maine State Housing Authority wants to charge too much money to release basic financial information for a public website disclosing the cost of government.

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is holding six bills until the Legislature returns in January, including one that would set up rules for casinos.

In a letter dated Friday, Schneider writes that the sale of 5.2 acres in Thomaston to Warden Patricia Barnhart “is void” because it violates state law that prohibits state officials from having a financial interest in “any contracts made on behalf of the state.”

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage tackled the difficult subject of domestic violence in a recent weekly radio address, asking men to step up to make “this behavior socially unacceptable.”

AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Charlie Summers released the wording Wednesday for a people’s veto ballot question, marking the unofficial start of a campaign to repeal a law passed last month to end same-day voter registration in Maine.

AUGUSTA — With Republicans in charge at the State House for the first time in decades, there was a different approach to policy making in the legislative session that ended Wednesday, on issues ranging from the budget to health insurance to charter schools and same-day voter registration.