The change is expected to save the state around $57 million in the next two years, according to a health and human services budget spreadsheet.

A proposal to allow doctors to waive the waiting period for terminally ill patients who want to be given life-ending drugs drew an emotional debate from lawmakers in the Maine Senate Monday before it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has set an ambitious timeline for passing President Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation to cut ...

Poland Spring Resort celebrates the Seppala Siberian Sleddog’s official designation as the official state dog of Maine. The ...

D-Eliot, talks about efforts at "creating a Maine where every child has the support and resources they need to thrive." ...

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on roll calls from the week of June 2-6. There were no roll calls ...

Senate Republicans are trying to win over Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) to back the party’s ambitious tax cut plan amid fears they could lose a couple of conservative ...

A bipartisan bill in the Senate aims to use conservation measures to protect the state's oldest forests and undeveloped lakes ...

A state law passed in 2019 requires public hearings for citizen initiatives, though a hearing was never held on a 2021 ...

The Democratic co-chairs of the Legislature's Judiciary Committee have argued that, despite a state law requiring a hearing, ...

Maine legislators tabled an online casino bill in April, but the propsoal gets a second chance in the state legislature's ...

Advocates urged lawmakers to increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations, but Republicans vowed to oppose any new taxes.