Kevin Miller
State House CorrespondentKevin joined Maine Public’s reporting team in 2021 after nearly 25 years in newspapers. He covered the State House for the Portland Press Herald as well as the Bangor Daily News and spent a few years on Capitol Hill as a Washington correspondent. A graduate of New York University, Kevin wrote about politics, higher education, and the environment for newspapers in Virginia and Maryland before finally landing in Maine in 2005. In his spare time, Kevin would like to be kayaking, hiking, camping or fishing but also enjoys a good history book or a yard project. He and his wife live in the Midcoast with their short-legged but big-hearted dog.
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The Friday afternoon protest came as immigrant communities are still reeling from ICE's large-scale operation. -
President Donald Trump rescinded a longstanding policy that discouraged immigration enforcement around "protected areas," such as schools, churches and medical facilities. The bill proposed in Augusta seeks to address that change at the state level. -
State lawmakers remain skeptical of the low user complaint rate reported to state officials, saying they believe many complaints are either never filed or don't make it through the appropriate channels. -
Mills also adopted a more deeply partisan tone during her final "State of the State" address, prompting Republicans to accuse the governor of using the speech for her U.S. Senate campaign. -
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Airport officials say six people were aboard, and all were presumed dead, after a private business jet crashed in a snowstorm at Maine’s Bangor International Airport. -
Maine's two U.S. House members — both Democrats — were on opposite sides of $64 billion Department of Homeland Security bill. And while Republican Sen. Susan Collins supports the DHS funding bill, independent Sen. Angus King is calling for cuts to ICE. -
Republicans are accusing Gov. Janet Mills and other Democrats of inflammatory rhetoric that they say puts people at risk. Democrats reject such charges, however, and say they're focused on ensuring that civil rights are protected. -
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says she wants assurances that federal agencies won't engage in what she described as "lawless" behavior during immigration enforcement. But Republican lawmakers in Maine accuse the Democrat of jeopardizing public safety. -
The prospects of ramped-up federal immigration enforcement in Maine’s two largest cities elicited strong responses from state and local elected leaders that — not surprisingly — fell largely along partisan lines. Plus the 2026 money race and Platner gets personal.
