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