6 months ago

Gov. Janet Mills said she wants to bring back the Children’s Cabinet. Here’s what that is.

During the past year, the violent deaths of two little girls and the prevalence of mental illness among teens in Maine’s youth prison have stoked worries about how the state cares for its kids.

7 months ago

The parts of Maine where LePage was least popular prospered most under his tenure

Touring the Millinocket mill where his family worked for generations, Sean DeWitt was struck by the vastness of the unused space.

7 months ago

Judge rejects LePage bid to stall Medicaid expansion

A judge has denied Gov. Paul LePage’s administration's request to stay an order forcing it to implement voter-approved Medicaid expansion, but pushed the deadline to do so back to after the Republican leaves office.

8 months ago

‘Maine has lost a friend’: Tributes to George H.W. Bush pour in from throughout the state

Mourners lay roses and wreaths next to a sculpted Navy anchor on a bluff overlooking the house of the 41st president of the United States Saturday morning.

10 months ago

Donald Trump Jr. fires up the base in Maine appearance with LePage, Brakey and Holbrook

The political red meat was bleeding through the walls at a Portland hotel Monday night, as the president’s eldest son boosted for the Maine Republican Party.

1 year ago

In Maine visit, Sessions promotes federal plan to crack down on fentanyl dealers

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared in Portland Friday to promote a federal push to prosecute suspected fentanyl dealers in parts of the country especially hard hit by the opioid crisis.

1 year ago

LePage says he would send Maine troops to border amid backlash over family separations

Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday that he’s willing to deploy the Maine National Guard to the southern border, breaking with other Republican governors in New England who’ve said they would withhold troops over the Trump administration’s policy of s eparating children from their migrant parents.