King, who toured Acadia on Thursday with acting Director Dan Smith and Rep. Bruce Poliquin, says Americans must commit to leaving national parks in better shape for the next generation.

The Legislative Council says the Capitol building must be maintained as a 'neutral institution of democracy' and not tainted by political messages.

The state's top court recently left consideration of constitutional issues about Medicaid expansion to a Superior Court judge, who will begin to weigh such matters next week.

A lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, who has fled with her family after receiving death threats, tells senators that she wants terms 'that are fair and which ensure her safety.'

Only Vermont has a law that says that candidates for governor must release at least part of their returns.

Although the Republican reforms cut taxes for many, candidates in high-income states tell voters that the cap on local and state tax deductions will hit them hard.

Members of the Belgrade select board say Dennis Keschl consulted with them before agreeing to enter the District 76 race for the Maine House of Representatives.

Republicans refuse the accuser's request that the FBI investigate her allegation before she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The duo, both in their 70s, are accused of voting in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

At a North-South summit, the leaders of the two Koreas say would seek to host the 2032 Summer Olympics together.

Mark Andre's petition seeks money from the colleges to help lower the city's tax rate over the next five years.

President Trump's latest round of import levies on Chinese imports will add costs to more than 100 car parts.

Three parties argue in letters that the U.S. government should allow 70,000 more Mainers to get health coverage as state law dictates, despite the governor's opposition.

Maine's senior senator is still undecided on whether she will support President Trump's Supreme Court nominee as sexual assault allegations against him have disrupted the process

The trade war continues to escalate.

Rep. Chris Collins is under federal indictment accusing him of insider trading and lying to the FBI.

The hearing is announced just hours after she and several colleagues said the Supreme Court nominee and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, should testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins joined other senators, including a handful of Republicans, who have called for a delay in the vote, which is scheduled for Thursday.

Vintage Kennedy photographs have been digitized and published online.

A trove of documents show the WikiLeaks founder's budding relationship with Russia.

A top Republican pollster says the outcome hinges not on the economy, but how voters feel about Trump.

While his friend watched, she says, a teenage Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes.

The independent 2nd Congressional District candidate and special education teacher said his recovery left him feeling he was "called to do something" about the current opioid crisis.

He was among the participants in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in New York with Russians and Trump's oldest son and son-in-law that was arranged for the campaign to receive derogatory information about Democratic president nominee Hillary Clinton.

While Florence wreaks havoc on the Carolinas, the president goes back on Twitter on Friday to dispute experts' conclusion that nearly 3,000 died from the effects of Hurricane Maria.

Just 25 percent of Americans say it's very or extremely important that a candidate has strong religious beliefs, according to the poll.

The city manager calls Mayor Nick Isgro's idea to cap tax rate increases a restriction on future voter options, while Isgro's ideas on eliminating partisan labels elicits other ideas on changing city elections.

Retired Adm. Will McRaven resigned after he criticised Trump for revoking former CIA director's security clearance.

A group of Bowdoin College students marched through downtown to Collins' office, followed by a second rally with protesters clad in black.

The allegation is made in a letter passed along to the FBI, which vets federal nominees.

There were indications that Nixon's aggressive challenge pushed the incumbent governor to the left on several issues, including legalizing marijuana and addressing crumbling public housing in New York City.

Here's a look at the men and women battling to replace Gov. LePage in this year's race.

The nature and importance of the information provided by Democrat Dianne Feinstein, as well as who gave it to her, aren't known.

Steven McGrath came from the private energy sector, where he specialized in finance and management.

The state party will host the president's eldest son at an event in Portland on Oct. 1

On its last day of action in a marathon year, legislators also pass a change to foreclosure law, and some level not-so-veiled criticism at the governor.

The Maine senator, feeling the heat in the intense battle over Brett Kavanaugh's U.S. Supreme Court nomination, calls out callers who resort to obscenity.

Maine's independent U.S. senator cites 5 reasons for his decision, and says the 'stakes are too high' to support President Trump's nominee.

The governor declines to talk about a medical problem that resulted in him being taken from New Brunswick to Presque Isle to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

Those hoping to be fast-tracked and become LPNs must have served in a medical corps, spent at least 12 months providing bedside patient care and left the military with an honorable discharge.

LePage, who called Republican Tom Saviello 'the most repugnant human being,' says he'll apologize when Saviello does, or 'when hell freezes over.'

Safiya Wazir, a Concord Democrat, fled Afghanistan as the Taliban consolidated power

The tape makes the rounds on social media, driven by Breitbart.

The Massachusetts governor didn't accept public financing and the $1.5 million limit that would have come with it.

The Maine Democratic Party issues a release that reveals Christopher J. Hoy's misdemeanor convictions and calls on Republican leaders to urge him to withdraw from the District 33 race.

The governor withdrew more than a dozen nominations after a legislative committee rejected his pick for the Maine Turnpike Authority board.

The state has now conformed with the federal tax code, providing $76 million in tax relief for individuals and businesses and making filing easier.

Maine's Republican senior senator ranked 16th on the annual list for being a crucial vote on a host of policy issues, including the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh

The national effort would help to bankroll a Democratic challenger's campaign in the 2020 election, a tactic that Collins likens to a ’bribe.‘

John McCain's successor says he would vote to repeal, but a vote is unlikely to be called.

The $100,000 effort to boost the candidacy of Republican challenger Eric Brakey, a state senator from Auburn, is funded almost entirely by Andrew Beal, a Texas banker who gave $2 million to support the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

Mainers voted last fall to expand the health insurance program and lawmakers approved the funding in June, but the governor vetoed the bill.

She finds herself in the crosshairs of social media campaigns, a series of rallies and a fundraising drive to bankroll a 2020 Democratic challenger if she votes to confirm the Supreme Court nominee.

Adrienne Bennett, LePage's spokeswoman for six years, has left her bank job to work on legislative affairs for the Labor Department.

Shawn Moody, Janet Mills, Alan Caron and Terry Hayes have varying ideas for attracting and keeping young workers, in the face of a booming economy and record low unemployment.

A former councilor looks to change seats, Walker will run unopposed and no candidates file to run for Ward One councilor in November.

Nomination papers have been taken out for each of the city's open elective positions, but just one person is vying for each of them.

The Maine Democrat, whose tenure as Senate majority leader included several Supreme Court appointments, nonetheless says Brett Kavanaugh's nomination will prevail.

About 50 people turned out for the event, held Saturday outside City Hall.

Jared Golden says he draws inspiration from spirituality, a belief in the value of service and the cooperation of people of all political stripes.

The party's resistance to President Trump enters a new stage.

The House passed the Empowering Students Through Financial Counseling Act that requires students and their guardians to receive financial counseling before assuming federal loan debt.

He's accused in Washington of financial crimes including conspiring to launder money.

Brakey, a two-term state senator, is challenging independent U.S. Sen. Angus King.

The moderate Republican wields a key vote and says she won't make a decision until she has a chance to review Brett Kavanaugh's paperwork and testimony.

The governor had proposed the measures, one of which would shift state policy away from family reunification and toward the best interests of the child.

George Papadopoulos, the first campaign aide sentenced in special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation, said he was "deeply embarrassed and ashamed" for having lied to the FBI.

Its report calls for conducting all federal, state and local elections on paper ballots by 2020.

Republican Rich Donaldson of Georgetown, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Eloise Vitelli, shared images and jokes that mocked Mexicans, gays and prominent Democrats in 2016.

Friday was a filing date for Maine's political action committees and party committees to report their donations and expenditures.

The former president spoke at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as he begins reenter the political fray ahead of the midterm elections.

The nationally funded group uses a new social media tactic to build an audience with clickbait content.

The governor, who was hospitalized last month for ‘discomfort,’ is in good health, his spokesman says.