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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Penobscot Nation Chief Kirk Francis is encouraging tribal members to carry their tribal identification as Immigrations and Customs Enforcement activity increases in Maine this week. -
Washington County is endeavoring to pay off a multi-million dollar emergency budget shortfall. A public referendum asking voters to borrow the money failed in November. Plan B is to ask towns in the county to pay a portion of their taxes early. In Cutler this week, residents weighed in on the fiscal quandary.
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The court ordered the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to redo a study that determined there was a public benefit associated with expansion. -
The long-running lawsuit over Maine's failure to provide attorneys to indigent defendants was back before the state Supreme Court today. The question before the court now is if the suit can include the State of Maine as a defendant. -
The latest report from Maine's Department of Public Safety on crime in Maine finds that the overall crime rate is down.
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A new study from the University of Maine finds that establishing a public medical school in Penobscot County would not be financially feasible. -
The Bangor Housing Authority has announced that it will close the waiting lists for all its public housing properties as of next month.
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Shopping malls, once the commercial hubs of the holiday season, are in decline. But in Bangor, it's also meant a rise in municipal code violations that are so severe that the city has taken the mall's owner to court. -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning of a Salmonella outbreak that may be linked to contaminated oysters. -
A New York woman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bangor last week to operating an unlicensed marijuana growing operation in central Maine.
