The letter, which was signed by roughly 130 legislators from both parties, urges the Maine Department of Heath and Human Services to start a new process to find a contractor to provide MaineCare clients with rides to medical appointments.

They include codifying into state law that hospitals must give 120 days notice before closing a maternity unit. Currently giving such notice is voluntary.

47% of cases reviewed by the Child Welfare Services Ombudsman had issues with a detrimental effect on the safety of children or the rights of parents. While that failure rate is still high, ombudsman Christine Alberi said it marked the first time in five years that it was below 50%.

LifeFlight of Maine says its pilots have encountered drones when approaching and departing Maine's major hospitals in Bangor, Lewiston, and Portland, putting pilots, patients and crews at risk.

A message on the health center's website says that two providers will relocate to Topsham Family Medicine. A third provider is leaving the practice.

The acting director of the U.S. CDC now says that vaccinations for meningitis, rotavirus, RSV, flu, and hepatitis A and B are now only recommended for high-risk groups or through what the administration calls "shared clinical decision making."

A new study from the University of Maine finds that establishing a public medical school in Penobscot County would not be financially feasible.

The Maine attorney general's office says that more than 478,000 people were affected by the data breach last spring at Covenant Health, many more than the roughly 8,000 originally reported.

About 3,653 cases of Lyme disease were reported in 2025, according to preliminary data from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases of other tick-borne diseases, including Babesiosis and Anaplasmosis, also increased and set new highs.

One city councilors says he is hearing from concerned constituents and advocates for the unhoused about the situation. It was below 15 degrees that night.