Kaitlyn Budion
News ReporterKaitlyn Budion is Maine Public’s Bangor correspondent, joining the reporting team after several years working in print journalism.
After growing up in Minnesota, Kaitlyn moved to Boston to attend college at Northeastern University, where she studied journalism. In Boston she reported for Somerville Media Center, the Massachusetts State House News Service, News@Northeastern, the GroundTruth Project and more. She moved to Maine in 2021, reporting for the Morning Sentinel, where she covered local government and PFAS contamination in central Maine.
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The long-running legal challenge over Maine's failure to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who can't afford them has reached the state Supreme Court. Arguments before the court today focused on whether the lower court has the authority to order defendants released from jail if they are not provided a lawyer. -
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said the absentee ballots allegedly shipped to a Newburgh woman last week seem to correspond with missing absentee ballots in Ellsworth.
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The park service reports that the national monument had just over 35,000 visitors in 2024, who spent $2.7 million and supported 26 jobs in the surrounding region. -
The University of Maine has unveiled major athletic facilities upgrades on the Orono campus, including the New Balance Track & Field and Soccer Complex, the renovated Walsh Hockey Center and Alfond Arena. -
A Chelsea woman who says she was the victim of excessive force and unlawful arrest has filed suit against a Maine State Police trooper. This the second excessive force lawsuit filed against Maine State Police in the past month. -
Even though Acadia National Park will stay open during the federal government shutdown, there will be changes to the usual visitor experience. -
Faculty at Thomas College in Waterville voted yesterday to join the Maine Education Association, making it the first private college in Maine to unionize. -
The National Park Service announced today that parks will remain as accessible as possible during the government shutdown, but some services may be unavailable, but it's not yet clear what that means for visitors. -
Kelly Ballinger was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Portland to five years in prison for embezzlement and was ordered to pay back roughly $1 million.
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Attorneys representing state Supreme Court Justice Catherine Connors said she should not receive a public reprimand for failing to recuse herself in two cases, arguing it would be dangerous and corrode judicial independence.
