Paul LePage

While reviewing fire damage Tuesday in his hometown, Gov. Paul LePage dismissed a suggestion that he had "discretionary" funds he could tap to help the more than 200 residents who have been displaced by three major blazes in the past 10 days. "What...

Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a bill Tuesday that would allow school boards in Maine to decide whether their superintendents must live in the communities where they work. The bill, which has bipartisan support in the Legislature, is of particular concern to...

City and school officials clashed Monday night over how to account for revenue cuts proposed by Gov. Paul LePage, including a nearly $2 million hit to the school budget. The school budget presented to the City Council on Monday assumes LePage...

A representative of Maine's hospitals said Monday he is surprised and disappointed that Democratic lawmakers want to combine a decision on Medicaid expansion with a proposal to pay a $186 million debt to hospitals. While hospitals support both the...

Let's just call former Gov. John Baldacci's 2007 directive to consolidate jails a fail. There's no point in tiptoeing around it any more. The consolidation plan -- in which the state would take over control of the jails -- was pitched as a way to ease...

On Wednesday, every Maine public school will get a report card with one grade. Some schools will get an A, some an F, lots will get a B, C or D. Following through on what Gov. Paul LePage said during his February State of the State address, the state...

Maine could become the 13th state to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to overturn the controversial Citizens United ruling. Sen. Richard Woodbury, I-Yarmouth, plans to introduce a resolution Tuesday in the Maine Senate that directs the...

Having been denied permission to land lobsters, members of Maine's groundfish industry are saying they may have to consider moving or expanding their businesses further south. Many in the industry had supported LD 1097, a bill that would have allowed...

A coalition of advocacy groups, including AARP Maine, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and the American Heart Association, will launch newspaper and radio advertisements Tuesday urging legislators to support a plan that would allow the...

The longtime headmaster of Saco's Thornton Academy has been named executive director of Portland's first charter school, Baxter Academy for Technology and Science. "I'm very, very excited about this opportunity," said Carl Stasio, who retired last...

There's a lot of money in the trash business. Just ask the Maine Legislature. For the past three months, the media spotlight has been trained on several hot-button topics, including the state's next two-year budget, Medicaid expansion and using a...

Labor leaders, union workers and state representatives gathered at the Franco-American Heritage Center on Sunday to honor those who have died on the job at the seventh annual Workers Memorial Day and May Day Dinner, presented by the Western Maine Labor...