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J. Scott Applewhite/APThe approval comes in the wake of a consequential U.S. Supreme Court decision that found the state's exclusion of religious schools from a state tuition program to be unconstitutional. -
Robert F. Bukaty/AP fileCommunity action programs around Maine are bracing for what they believe will be a sizeable increase in the number of Mainers calling for emergency fuel this winter, as heating assistance funds won't stretch as far due to high energy costs.
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It includes a 15% across-the-board wage increase over three years, beginning with 7% in the first year of the agreement. -
In this week’s Pulse: LePage's history with Medicaid expansion, LePage gets an "incomplete" from sportsmen, money dumps, police union calls out ‘misinformation’ in high-profile race, and upcoming debates.
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The number of attorneys willing to take on indigent defense cases in Maine has fallen from more than 400 to just 163 during the past two-and-a-half years.
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In August of 2019, 62-year old Norman Fisher was transferred from a hospital into the care of Residential and Community Support Services, or RCSS, which operates homes in southern Maine. Within 72 hours of his arrival, Fisher died.
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To meet the demand for wind technicians, Northern Maine Community College launched the state's first — and still only — comprehensive training program. It started with a bang: nearly three dozen students enrolled. But in the years since, enrollment has plummeted.
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The average cost of prescription drugs in Maine increased by 12% between 2020 and 2021.
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A severely entangled right whale was spotted 15 miles south of Nantucket on Wednesday by researchers from the New England Aquarium. The 17-year-old whale known as Snow Cone was carrying fishing gear from a new entanglement, along with gear from an earlier incident.
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By day, Derek Yorks is a wildlife biologist for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, specializing in reptiles. But he and a friend have been working evenings and weekends to develop a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify and capture invasive snakes and lizards in a robotic trap.
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They worry that students with disabilities, who struggled when schools went to remote learning during the pandemic, could fall even further behind.
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As the state's wind power trailblazer, Mars Hill exposed some of the regulatory and legal pitfalls that can result when 400-foot-tall wind turbines are built near homes.
