AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Five people are interested in succeeding Janet Mills as Maine’s attorney general now that she’s been elected governor.

Lawmakers are expected to pick the new attorney general on Dec. 5. They’ll also fill treasurer and secretary of state posts.

The five ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage is warning Democratic Gov.-elect Janet Mills that she’d better be fiscally responsible when it comes to expanding Medicaid.

If not, he’s vowing to return from Florida to run again for governor in 2022.

LePage, who leaves office ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democratic governor-elect Janet Mills has picked the leaders of her team preparing to assemble her incoming administration.

Mills says her campaign manager Jeremy Kennedy and former Maine Democratic Party chairman Ben Grant will lead the team.

Mills, also ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A state judge has sentenced a New York man to life in prison for killing a Maine couple on Christmas Day 2015.

The Kennebec Journal reports that ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A judge said she will weigh in soon on the future of voter-approved Medicaid expansion, as the Democratic governor-elect Wednesday vowed to expand coverage as soon as she enters office in January.

Justice Michaela Murphy heard oral arguments Wednesday in Superior ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A new way of voting makes its national debut in U.S. Senate and House races on Election Day in Maine. Mainers also are choosing firebrand Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s successor.

The hotly contested race for governor features Democratic Attorney General Janet Mills, ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor is offering more hints about what he’ll be up to once his term ends January.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage told reporters Monday that he’s in talks to teach at “a couple” of Florida universities.

LePage and his wife, Ann, own a house in Florida. ...

Mainers have a lot to contemplate on Election Day. On a traditional ballot, voters will be choosing among three candidates for governor to replace the combative Republican Gov. Paul LePage. On a separate ballot, ranked-choice voting will make its national debut in races for U.S. House and ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine judge is set to hear the latest legal arguments over the future of voter-approved Medicaid expansion.

Oral arguments are set for Wednesday.

The judge will decide whether Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration has broken the law by stalling ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage wants Maine courts to rule soon on his appeal of two lawsuits he lobbed against Democratic Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Janet Mills.

But Mills’ office in Tuesday court filings argues LePage is playing politics and trying to ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage says his environmental chief will be retiring.

LePage said Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Paul Mercer will retire from state service Nov. 9. Mercer’s been head of the department since January 2016.

LePage ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage has ordered United States and state of Maine flags be flown at half-staff in respect for the eleven victims of the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.

The Republican governor said Sunday that he and his wife are “deeply saddened by this tragedy, ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage and his wife, Ann, are gearing up for their final Blaine House food drive.

They say the drive will be held for the eighth year in a row on Sunday, Nov. 3, and then again on the following Saturday, Nov. 10. Mainers who donate food will have an ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration is dismissing as “meritless” a lawsuit brought by gubernatorial candidate and Democratic Attorney General Janet Mills over roughly $8 million in unpaid legal bills.

Maine’s Department of Administrative and Financial ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democrats are outpacing Republicans when it comes to absentee voting in Maine.

All told, nearly 100,000 absentee ballots had been requested as of this week. An analysis by The Associated Press indicates Democrats accounted for 45 percent of requests, Republicans 27 ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A $2 million effort to combat the opioid crisis has helped 108 uninsured Mainers access drug treatment and other addiction services, Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration told The Associated Press, citing figures from treatment providers.

That’s short of the ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage is taking his legal fight against Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Attorney General Janet Mills to Maine’s high court.

LePage Tuesday began to appeal a lower court judge’s decision that affirmed Mills didn’t abuse her power by ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s office confirms he traveled to Spain to meet with leaders of the company that owns Central Maine Power.

The Sun Journal

Republican Gov. Paul LePage calls his health “excellent” following a “cardiac issue.”

LePage spoke Thursday on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. LePage has declined to ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says he’ll lead a delegation of 40 Mainers to Iceland for a dialogue on the Arctic’s future.

LePage’s office said he’ll meet Saturday with Iceland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson. LePage says the delegation signals ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says Maine should consider repealing voter-approved Medicaid expansion or paying for the state’s share with a hospital tax.

LePage on Thursday also proposed reducing municipal revenue sharing, putting more school funding into the classroom ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine officials say the state psychiatric hospital in Augusta was found to be in “substantial compliance” for participation with Medicare after a federal review.

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday it received notification of compliance ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A new task force has formed to discuss conservation strategies in Maine once Gov. Paul LePage leaves office.

The Portland Press Herald

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump has tapped a Maine official who battled Medicaid expansion for a position that puts her in charge of the national program, the federal agency confirmed Monday.

Mary Mayhew’s role of deputy administrator and director of the U.S. Center for ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A paper company says it’s investing $300 million into its Wisconsin and Maine mills over the next two years.

Hong Kong-based Nine Dragons Paper said in a Monday press release that its U.S.-based subsidiary ND Paper will spend $111 million at the Maine mills. ...

NORRIDEWOCK, Maine (AP) — A bridge over Maine’s Kennebec River now bears the name of a deputy killed in the line of duty.

The dedication of the Corporal Eugene Cole Memorial Bridge was held Sunday in the deputy’s hometown, Norridgewock, on what would’ve been his 62nd birthday.

Cole ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s office says a secretive commission investigating the wind industry’s impact has begun its work.

LePage’s spokeswoman Julie Rabinowitz said Thursday evening the commission LePage launched in January met for the first time ...

Maine’s outgoing firebrand Republican governor has railed on his perceived opponents with fury and gusto over an eight-year term marked by profanity-laced controversy and a failed impeachment attempt. But the four candidates running to succeed the governor who calls himself “Donald Trump before ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s next governor could face a half-a-billion dollar spending gap.

Maine estimates revenues won’t cover $504 million in potential spending between mid-2019 and mid-2021. Lawmakers and Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s successor will ultimately make spending ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine has largely avoided $28 million in federal penalties by making sure enough welfare recipients are working, according to a Sept. 25 letter obtained by The Associated Press from Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration to lawmakers.

Republican Gov. Paul ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Mainers can soon purchase a new license plate to support the children’s hospital named for late first lady Barbara Bush.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage, lawmakers, Democratic Secretary of State Matt Dunlap and hospital representatives unveiled the plate Friday at a ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor has signed legislation to protect seniors facing foreclosures but calls it a “horrible, horrible bill.”

Gov. Paul LePage signed the bill into law Tuesday but is criticizing lawmakers for removing protections he called for.

LePage’s ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Republican governor says his secretive Maine Wind Energy Advisory Commission will move on despite recent departures.

Gov. Paul LePage told The Associated Press Tuesday that he thinks Maine’s fast-tracked wind permitting law should be repealed. He said he hopes ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An advocacy group wants the courts to step in over the LePage administration’s move to urge federal regulators to reject a court-ordered Medicaid expansion plan.

Maine Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy could weigh in early this week on Maine Equal Justice ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine courts have agreed to hear the latest arguments about the state’s failure to enact voter-approved Medicaid expansion.

Medicaid expansion has been held up for months because of the Republican governor’s opposition over funding issues and resulting legal battles. ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s top election official says that ballots are being printed despite the GOP governor’s veto of an election funding bill.

Maine Public reports that ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The governor’s energy office director is stepping down.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Steven McGrath will step down Friday.

McGrath has headed LePage’s energy office since August 2017. He led state government’s efforts to help Mainers when stormy weather ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. is headed to Maine for a fundraiser for the Maine Republican Party.

The son of President Donald Trump will attend the event on Oct. 1 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. Tickets range from $100 to 10,000.

Special guests include ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers returned Thursday to handle the term-limited governor’s likely last veto and end a drawn-out legislative session.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage said he would campaign every day on his previously-tabled bill aiming to protect the elderly from tax lien ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Latest on the last scheduled day of Maine’s legislative session (all times local):

3:30 p.m.

Maine schools would have to alert the state about investigations into teacher misconduct under a bill headed to the governor’s desk.

The Senate and House ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor is using his likely last veto message to chastise the Democratic secretary of state over an election funding bill.

Gov. Paul LePage on Tuesday vetoed a bill to provide an additional $334,330 to cover the cost of November elections. LePage ...