President Donald Trump’s tariffs could destabilize Maine’s lobster, lumber and electricity industries.Canada is Maine’s biggest trading partner.According to the Press Herald, Maine imported $4.4 billion worth of goods from our northern neighbors last year.
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.
Earlier this month, Maine Representative Jared Golden, a Democrat, co-sponsored a bill that would prohibit commercial offshore wind development acro
Tariffs that are central to President Donald Trump's economic policies could destabilize markets for numerous Maine products from lumber to lobsters to electricity. The president has said he will impose tariffs of 25% of the value of a product imported from Mexico and Canada beginning Saturday.
It cut off funding this week, with no notice, to agencies working to resettle immigrants and refugees in the state.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey joined more than 20 of his Democratic colleagues in suing to block the budget move while members of Maine's delegation called for congressional action.
In response to the federal funding freeze, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced he would join a multistate lawsuit against President Donald Trump.
Some local leaders are calling out President Donald Trump's decision to reinstate what is known as the global gag rule.
Some believe the administration will alleviate financial pressures and secure the border. Others worry of potential consequences to the climate and immigrants.
NH lawmakers try to revive border battle over Naval Shipyard, seeking help from Trump. US Supreme Court ruled in Maine's favor in 2001.
Maine, meanwhile, is mired in a long-running debate over where to develop an offshore wind port — Mack Point, an existing industrial port in Searsport, or adjacent Sears Island, an undeveloped state-owned island linked by a causeway.
On the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term, he used his executive power to remove protections for LGBTQ+ people, including a declaration that the federal government would not recognize trans and nonbinary people.