Maine Politics

Maine's political races for governor and Congress are getting a little more crowded now that independents have turned the contests into three-way races.

This week’s tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, has unfortunately sparked what is by now a predictable – and predictably partisan – debate on Capitol Hill about how to deal with mass shootings and gun violence.

In this week's Pulse: Maine braces for the fall of Roe v. Wade, Collins again haunted by Kavanaugh vote and Mills outraises LePage.

Democratic State Sen. Chloe Maxmin has won two legislative races in rural, overwhelmingly Republican districts. In a New York Times essay published this week, and a book coming out next week, Maxmin says Democrats are losing those districts because the party has willfully abandoned them.

An anticipated U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Wade may not have an immediate impact on women's right to access abortion here in Maine but could impact this fall's elections in Maine. And the outcome of those elections could, in turn, affect future abortion policy in the state.

Gov. Janet Mills signed into law on Monday a bill that adds Maine to the list of states that have legalized sports gambling and that gives Wabanaki tribes exclusive access to the booming online betting market.

In this week's Pulse: The status of the tribal sovereignty bill and its political implications.

The Democratic legislators who support a takeover of Maine's two largest electricity utilities dropped their opposition Wednesday to a bill designed to hold those same companies more accountable to regulators.

Leaders of the Wabanaki Nation in Maine held a rally at the State House on Wednesday to both celebrate progress on several bills important to their communities and to keep pressure on Gov. Janet Mills as well as lawmakers to enact the measures.

The Department of Marine Resources opposes the legislative proposal, and on Tuesday a majority of members of a key committee voted against it as well.