The Democrats who control both chambers of the Legislature have also rejected multiple Republican-sponsored bills to rollback or scrap the paid leave program altogether before it kicks in next January.

Congress has yet to reauthorize funding for the Older Americans Act, which provides about six million dollars a year to Maine for Meals on Wheels and other community services.

Residents of Maine's unorganized territory say they are shocked by the recent spike in property values and concerned about what it might mean for their tax bills.

Under the measure landowners have to report details of their contracts to tend woodlands to absorb climate warming pollution.

Timberland owners want to prevent a repeat of a devastating infestation of the voracious forest insects in the 1970s and 1980s.

Leaders at DFD Russell said in a written statement that they face many financial pressures: from losing a vital community grant, to low reimbursement rates from commercial insurers, to ongoing uncertainty around Medicare and Medicaid.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says the two million plate job is too big for the Maine State Prison production facility to turn around by July 31, 2026.

The Gulf of Maine will again experience colder than normal deep-water temperatures, according to a new forecast and modeling from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A group of residents at a mobile home park in Gorham are trying to become the latest cooperative to successfully purchase their community in the face of an offer from an out-of-state investment firm. Their situation has prompted calls for more protections intended to help mobile home park residents more easily buy their own communities.

One provision of the bill would require home sellers to disclose whether their private well was tested for the "forever chemicals."