During the final hours of work Tuesday, House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) announced the intention to take up ...

The Maine Legislature passed legislation to strengthen existing avenues for oversight of Maine jails, a compromise after an ...

Maine is poised to become the first state to halt large data center projects, as the moratorium bill now heads to Gov. Janet ...

The session was colored by this year's elections, but was still pretty quiet, with no single issue stealing the spotlight at ...

The Democratic majority of the Maine Legislature cast its initial approval for a supplemental budget Wednesday night that ...

The dome of the Maine State House in Augusta. (Jim Neuger/Maine Morning Star) Thousands of state employees and programs relied on by tens of thousands of Mainers are at risk if the federal government ...

The bill would have introduced the option in 2027. Opponents raised concerns that electronic tagging would make it harder to ...

Two bills seeking to curtail the development of data centers are headed to votes before the full Maine Legislature.

The fiscal troubles of Washington County, Maine, home of the West Quoddy Head lighthouse, inspired a state bill that would authorize municipal bankruptcies. State Sen. Marianne Moore, who sponsored ...

When Ashley Smith arrived to testify before the Maine Legislature during a committee hearing last spring, she was terrified. "I was shaking like a leaf in the wind," she says. She told lawmakers that ...