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A federal judge has agreed with voting rights groups and Democrats that the Constitution gives the power to regulate federal elections to states and Congress — not the president
Redesignating more than $400,000 toward the project should allow the town to complete the baseball field portion of a larger plan for an athletic complex, the project’s clerk of works said.
Roy Palmer, a U.S. Army veteran, died in 2020 after doctors gave him too much pain medication for stomach pain, leading to an overdose and respiratory cardiac arrest.
This is the first publicly known instance of an international student in Maine losing their visa, although the ACLU filed a lawsuit last week to restore the status of international students in New England who have been targeted.
The state's education leaders said signing the letter would 'bind the Maine DOE to language of executive orders or other federal guidance without the force of law.'
The University of Maine was ordered to halt work on the research project just weeks before it had planned to launch its most advanced floating wind turbine yet.
District leaders are concerned about increasing behavioral issues in schools just a few years after the state raised the threshold to physically restrain or seclude students.
Voters recalled Heather Donahue from office Wednesday night, after Ryan Willette stepped down Monday night, leaving the town with just one selectperson.
Michael Williams of Waterville, who suffers with a terminal illness, applied for and was granted a wish for his daughter and grandson to visit him from North Carolina, Amy Calder writes.
ShineOnCass, created by Monica Charette after the 2014 death of her daughter Cass, works with organizations to promote youth literacy in memory of Cass, who was an avid reader.
A bill before a legislative committee would test the use of cameras and sensors to identify and automatically ticket speeders in highway construction zones.
Eight others are scheduled to receive 2024 Mid-Maine Chamber awards Thursday at the organization's annual awards event, to be held at the Waterville Elks Banquet Center.
The emergency bill makes it easier for judges to appoint lawyers for people who can't afford one themselves, and it authorizes the state to hire 5 new public defenders.
The state's higher education leaders say Republican-backed bills to raise endowment taxes would produce negligible benefits while forcing schools to slash financial aid and operating budgets.
As the craft beer market plateaus nationally and Maine's market becomes more competitive than ever, local brewers turn to new alternative products and other innovations.
A bill to require Maine cities and towns to report annual home construction data is headed for the House — but without bipartisan support or a mandate that all municipalities participate.
After a close race in the town election, Janelle McKinnon will officially represent West Gardiner on the Maine School Administrative District school board.
The presidents of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby and the University of New England joined more than 230 college leaders in rebuking the federal government's 'political interference' in higher education.
The bill includes a grant program to help residents safeguard their homes, provides a one-time dose of funding for the Maine Emergency Management Agency and establishes a new state office intended to reduce storm damage and protect infrastructure.
'There are a lot less local people that want to do (this work), so we have to have this program,' said the owner of an apple orchard. 'Without it, we’ll just be out of the industry. We go away.'
The way the Trump administration has approached the Title IX probes in Maine has been unusual, legal experts told The Maine Monitor, citing both the speed and lack of procedure.
The lawsuit seeks to restore the visa status of more than 100 international students in New England, although it's unclear if any Maine international students have had their visas terminated.
The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one involving sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they're counted, and the famed white or black smoke to signal to the world whether a new pontiff has been elected.
The termination letter said Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment failed to pay at least 65% of its climate-smart agriculture grant directly to farmers.
The new business, run by a husband-and-wife duo out of the kitchen at the Mercer Community Center, offers ready-to-bake meals for pickup and delivery each week.
After months of clashing over General Assistance reimbursements to local emergency shelters, DHHS adopts a new rule that will slash Portland’s rate nearly in half.
The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program was brought to a halt by the Trump administration in February. But states have interpreted federal guidance differently.
The project, which brings together a hotel, apartments and restaurant in a former mill hopes to capitalize on the momentum brought by other investments and planned projects in Skowhegan.
Targeting people based on their beliefs at school board and other local municipal meetings is becoming more common, driving the political divide, Jason Blazakis says.
Dozens of trans students have competed in high school sports in Maine since 2013, but such participation has suddenly become a flashpoint in a high-stake political and legal battle with the Trump administration.
The Auburn lawmaker, who was censured in February for a social media post about a transgender student, said she was disappointed with the decision but 'the fight is far from over.'
Regulators had shut down the fishery this month after scallopers hit a temporary limit that goes into effect when federal regulators do not pass annual rules in time.
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden sees 'progress' in the action that the president says will improve the U.S. commercial fishery by opening up harvesting in previously protected areas.
The once-revered electric vehicles have endured vandalism, public scorn and a wave of trade-ins by some drivers no longer comfortable with what the brand represents.
The complaint by Migrant Justice, a Vermont-based farmers' rights group, alleges substandard working conditions on some farms that supply the supermarket chain's milk.
Waterville fire Chief Jason Frost and deputy chief of EMS Everett Flannery III also want to run a third ambulance as need will increase with the closure of Northern Light Inland Hospital.
The owner of a prominent vacant lot wants to turn it into a park and give it to the city, but some officials want to see other development at the site.
The meeting came after workers at the Kittery shipyard were initially targeted as part of the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the federal workforce.