Residents have been protesting a roughly 20 percent increase in Lisbon’s tax levy, caused by years of heavy spending and a ...

Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. Instead, in Maine, such deals have put evictions on their permanent records.

Frustrated with rising taxes, locals put forward a petition to change the town’s charter so they have a greater say over ...

Two major factors are driving up insurance rates in Maine: rising costs of prescription drugs and little competition in Maine's market.

As with any predator, sharks will tend to go where the food is. That could be one factor driving the sightings reported in ...

Mundy, the university’s president, compared the funding disruptions to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Roughly 50 religious leaders and advocates testified on bills restricting bathroom use and participation in women’s sports ...

Together, the federal act and the new state law leave Maine’s clean energy sector in a precarious place, according to ...

Legislation signed by Gov. Janet Mills this month codifies and fast-tracks Maine’s transition to 100 percent clean energy amid growing uncertainty about the future of federal tax credits for renewable ...

But the transition has been aided by federal support, which is at risk. Nick Planson of Shred Electric explains how his company converted an old pontoon boat into a 24-foot oyster processing barge ...

Maine’s foster care population grew at a higher rate than any other state between 2019 and 2023, new federal data shows. It was one of just six states that increased its foster care population during ...