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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Searchers at Baxter State Park have located the body of missing hiker Esther Keiderling this afternoon, after a three-day search on Mount Katahdin. -
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. -
Republican Sen. Susan Collins said she is still evaluating all the provisions in the major spending bill before the Senate. -
Maine organizations researching PFAS are the latest groups to face sudden grant terminations, this time from the Environmental Protection Agency. -
State lawmakers are considering a bill that would narrow Maine's right to repair law to only apply to some vehicles- but advocates of the law say it undermines the law and goes against what residents voted for two years ago. -
As the Trump administration considers changing provisions of the Endangered Species Act, advocates for the law say protected species in Maine could be harmed. -
Democratic state lawmakers are sounding alarms about proposed federal cuts and work requirements for Medicaid- known in the state as MaineCare- which they say would be extremely detrimental to Mainers who rely on the program. -
A Wabanaki-led nonprofit plans to transform a former Waldo County farm into a permanent home base for food sovereignty efforts. -
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testified today that the agency removed maximum contaminant levels of four PFAS chemicals because there was a procedural error in how the standards were set and they could be restored in the future. -
Advocates for Sears Island gathered in Bangor on Wednesday night to voice opposition to a port on the island, saying the project is less about offshore wind and more about development in general.
