Corrections

Searchers at Baxter State Park have located the body of missing hiker Esther Keiderling this afternoon, after a three-day search on Mount Katahdin.

The Democrats who control both chambers of the Legislature have also rejected multiple Republican-sponsored bills to rollback or scrap the paid leave program altogether before it kicks in next January.

Democrats’ response this week to President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze all federal grants and loans already approved by Congress was a rare moment of swift, unified and urgent condemnation.

Four of the state's Republican county committees will hold an event in Topsham on Saturday featuring a Maine resident pardoned by President Donald Trump for participating in the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.

Data from the first week of the year indicate 99 people have been hospitalized with the flu or flu associated illnesses this season. And 25 COVID patients are hospitalized as well.

Business groups, journalists, advocacy organizations and others active at the State House have said the preponderance of so-called "concept draft" bills goes against the Legislature's requirement of a transparent and public process.

It is the latest state attempt to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for allegedly misleading consumers into buying polluting fuels.

The housing units should be affordable to the "missing middle" — those who make 80-120% of the area's median income. This group often makes too much money to be eligible for housing subsidies or supports, but still struggles to afford market rate housing.

The case focuses on the constitutionality of a year-old law, passed by an overwhelming majority of Maine voters, that prohibits companies that are partially owned by foreign governments from spending on referendum campaigns.

The proposed regulations are intended to protect valuable farmland but solar power developers worry it will set back Maine's clean energy goals.