A state program to help stimulate the expansion of broadband Internet access into rural Maine is generating some controversy as communications firms that compete against some of the grant recipients are challenging the fairness of the program.
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ELLSWORTH, Maine — Maine’s $3.6 billion stimulus package request to President-elect Barack Obama could include money that would complete improvements on heavily traveled Route 1A in Ellsworth.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Representatives of Maine’s forestry and wood products industries urged state lawmakers on Wednesday to protect funding for programs that they claim are critical to ensuring the state’s forests are managed sustainably.
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MADISON, Maine — Legislation is being proposed to give school administrative districts such as SAD 53 in Pittsfield that were unable to find a merger partner by November an additional year to make plans without financial penalties.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Lawmakers who are getting complaints from their jobless constituents want to know why some Maine Labor Department positions to handle unemployment claims are not being …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Veteran lawmakers on the Maine Legislature’s Appropriations Committee say they see their challenge to balance a state budget facing a $140 million shortfall as an …
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PORTLAND, Maine — A staff recommendation to the Maine Public Utilities Commission recommends that the state's largest electric utilities seek more favorable agreements in return for continued …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Beginning Thursday, adult adoptees who were born in Maine can obtain their original birth certificates, and Maine will join the majority of states that have made it a crime to …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — About 75 doctors, nurses and other health care providers along with a few patients met at the Augusta Civic Center Tuesday to provide their views on the American health care system …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — With winter hardly upon the state and two snowmobile fatalities already having occurred, the Maine Warden’s Service will be stepping up checkpoints and enforcement programs until …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — With the deaths of two young snowmobilers already this season in Maine, Gov. John Baldacci joined the state Warden Service in urging power sledders to be careful, sober and use …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Beginning Thursday, adult adoptees who were born in Maine can obtain their original birth certificates.
That is among a scattering of new state laws that take effect on Jan. 1, …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Earlier this year, many reports surfaced of airlines adding surcharges to pay for higher fuel costs, freight companies adding fuel surcharges and even some restaurants and grocery stores blaming their higher prices on fuel increases.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — The state Department of Education is moving ahead with plans to ditch the Maine Educational Assessment in favor of a regional standardized test for third- to eighth-graders.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s congressional delegation is pledging support of legislation requiring accountability and transparency in the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program, which has been …
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. John Baldacci’s pledge of no tax increases to balance the new two-year state budget has done little to alleviate fears in the business community that they will be hit with …
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State regulators scrapped a proposal that would have required farmers to check in with neighboring landowners about whether they want to be informed about aerial application of pesticides.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe announced that the makers of the best-selling alcoholic energy drink in the country, Sparks, is ending the sale of the product that several states believe is aimed at teens.
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