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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After years of debate and litigation, Bar Harbor is seeing significantly fewer cruise ships this summer. -
Health care advocates say proposed cuts to Medicaid could endanger Maine hospitals that are already struggling to operate. -
A former local union president at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard pleaded guilty to fraud this week in federal court in Portland.
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The state Supreme Court has finalized new rules for discipline proceedings involving their own. -
As expected, Maine basketball phenom Cooper Flagg was the first pick in last night's NBA draft, chosen by the Dallas Mavericks. There were several boisterous watch parties in Flagg's hometown of Newport, where locals who knew the outcome cheered nonetheless. -
The Maine Supreme Court has halted hearings in a long-running indigent defense lawsuit while the legal challenge is appealed.
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Activists in Maine are urging Congress to protect clean energy tax credits, which will be cut in the major spending bill now before the U.S. Senate. -
State lawmakers have approved a bill that allows landfills to continue to accept out-of-state bulky waste through 2027. -
A federal judge ruled this week that a Venezuelan man was unlawfully arrested by border patrol in Calais, and detained for 65 days based on a tip from a concerned citizen.
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The state medical examiner's office has found that hiker Esther Keiderling died from blunt force injuries from a fall on Mount Katahdin earlier this month.
