BREWER, Maine (AP) — Former Republican Gov. Paul LePage is giving his endorsement to the Maine Senate bid of a conservative agitator who once accused Democrats of waging a "war on...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's former Republican governor spent all or part of at least 80 days outside of the state during his last year in office, according to travel records that revealed trips...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles has begun offering Real ID-compliant driver's licenses.

The federal Real ID law was passed by Congress after the 2001 terrorist...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Thousands fewer Mainers than projected have signed up for Medicaid in the first six months of a statewide expansion of the program.

BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled in favor of Maine's former Republican Gov. Paul LePage in a lawsuit accusing him of abuse of power.

BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Former Republican Gov. Paul LePage's wife won't be the only one in their family spending the summer working at a restaurant. LePage will be joining her as a...

DEXTER, Maine (AP) — Most funds earmarked for a Maine domestic violence program went to day-to-day jail operations instead.

The Bangor Daily News reports just $10,000 of $36,000 raised...

The National Park Service is putting out to bid contracts to install signs directing motorists to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument more than a year after then-Gov. Paul LePage dropped...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The former head of the Illinois Department of Public Health has been tapped to lead the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The City Council in Maine's largest city is restoring funding for a program that provides financial help to asylum seekers who don't qualify for state assistance.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine will build a new pre-release center on the grounds of a former minimum-security prison under an agreement struck by the governor and local lawmakers.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Soon after taking office, Maine's Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced renovation plans for the governor's mansion. She wanted to add solar panels.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The administration of Maine Gov. Janet Mills is ending the use of photos on food benefits cards, saying there is no evidence such efforts cut down on fraud.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The former governor of Maine pardoned two people in his last days in office without going through the traditional process of consulting the clemency board and holding a...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's system for providing attorneys for people who can't afford them lacks the safeguards to ensure adequate representation for clients and to prevent against...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage pardoned his late mentor's grandson in the final days of his second four-year term, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press that...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Documents show former Maine Gov. Paul LePage pardoned late mentor’s grandson, drug traffickers, others.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A pair of bills in Maine would reopen a shuttered prison in the Down East portion of the state.

Former Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, emptied the minimum-security...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine legislators have revived a so-called "red flag" bill that could allow police to confiscate guns from people deemed to be a threat to themselves or others.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine has lost its latest fight in a yearslong battle involving a state psychiatric hospital and $72 million in funding that federal officials want back.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A nonprofit advocacy group linked to Republican former Gov. Paul LePage has geared up in recent months to protect fiscally conservative policies he favored.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A former Maine lawmaker who was pardoned by former Gov. Paul LePage has pleaded not guilty to fraudulently obtaining hunting licenses.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Police have charged a former Maine lawmaker with fraudulently obtaining hunting licenses.

The Portland Press Herald reports the Maine Warden Service says Jeffrey Pierce...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former Gov. Paul LePage suggested Monday that the Democratic Party's money comes mostly from Jewish people.

The Republican told WGAN-AM that Jewish people should be...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Plans to install solar panels at the Maine governor's mansion moved forward Tuesday as the state said it has received one bid.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Former Gov. Paul LePage and current Gov. Janet Mills couldn't be more different when it comes to politics. But, according to their state driving records, they share at least...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Latest on the Maine governors' driving records. (all times local):

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A spokesman for Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills says the traffic tickets she's...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A legislative committee unanimously recommended Thursday that lawmakers pass Gov. Janet Mills' plan to pay Maine's bills and repeal limits for Medicaid-funded addiction...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage says any elimination of the Electoral College would hurt white people.

LePage told WVOM radio that allowing the popular vote to choose the...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills has reaffirmed her opposition to oil and gas drilling off the state's coast by declining to participate in a governors' group.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's governor says she looks forward to meeting fellow governors — and going to the White House.

Democrat Janet Mills is in the nation's capital to attend the annual...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Lawmakers in Maine held a hearing on a bill that would require all schools test for lead in drinking and cooking water.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former Republican Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he was not aware of his administration spending more than $1,100 a night during a stay at a Trump hotel.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Documents obtained by a Maine newspaper show the state's former Republican governor and his staff spent at least $22,000 in public money at a hotel owned by the family of President Donald Trump.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — For eight years, a Republican governor viewed by critics as a blabbermouth and bully systematically shifted the course of state government to the right with a take-no-prisoner style.

Maine's new governor is wasting no time in trying to undo the most visible signs of his legacy.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A proposal to repeal religious and philosophical exemptions to school immunization requirements in Maine has been referred to a legislative committee.

The proposal by Democratic Rep. Ryan Tipping of Orono and several co-sponsors was referred to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs on Feb. 12. Public hearings and work sessions about the proposal haven't yet been scheduled.

The bill strikes language in state law that allows exemptions.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The administration of Maine's new Democratic governor says the state's enrolled over 6,200 under voter-approved Medicaid expansion since January.

The Department of Health and Human Services in a Friday post says Maine is partnering with advocacy non-profit group Consumers for Affordable Health Care to sign up more enrollees through workshops and special enrollment days.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's new Democratic governor has signed an executive order allowing state agencies to consider new wind energy projects in areas of Maine where her predecessor had sought to prohibit them.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage contends a federal lawsuit filed by a political adversary is moot because he's no longer governor.

Former Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves sued when a job offer from a charter school operator was rescinded because LePage threatened to withhold funding.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A lease letter obligates the state to pay $11.3 million over 30 years for a 16-bed psychiatric residence that was supposed to cost $2 million to $3 million to build, and also includes stipulations that require the facility and service to be provided in Bangor.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's new governor says she's taken down her predecessor's "Open for Business" highway sign and replaced it with one that reads: "Maine Welcome Home."

The sign is part of Democrat Gov. Janet Mills' push to attract newcomers, including immigrants and young people, to the aging, rural state. Her office says the sign was installed Thursday on the Maine turnpike in Kittery.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's new Democratic governor is taking steps to install solar panels on the governor's mansion as she calls for the state to be more welcoming of renewable energy.

Gov. Janet Mills' administration posted a request for proposals Friday to move ahead on plans to design and install a photovoltaic system that would supply 50 percent of the Blaine House's electricity needs.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's Democratic governor has told federal regulators that the state won't move forward on her predecessor's plan to require certain Medicaid recipients to work or volunteer.

Gov. Janet Mills wrote Tuesday to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that she's instead directing Maine's health and labor agencies to help prepare recipients of governmental assistance for work.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Newly elected Gov. Janet Mills received multiple standing ovations at the state's Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, ending an eight-year absence by Maine's chief executive from the event.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is renewing a tradition abandoned by her predecessor of celebrating the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. with the NAACP in Maine's largest city.

Mills, the state's first female governor, is set to participate in a private dialogue Monday with students of color hosted by the Portland chapter of the NAACP at the Holiday Inn by the Bay. She's also set to deliver public remarks at the event that typically draws 700 people.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Lawmakers in Maine will consider a bill designed to end non-medical exemptions from childhood vaccinations this year.

Maine has one of the lowest vaccination rates for children entering kindergarten. It's also home the country's highest rate of whooping cough, a dangerous disease that can be limited with the use of an easily available vaccine.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Maine commission created as part of the former Republican governor's efforts to hinder wind projects has released a report drawing few conclusions about the impact of wind turbines.

The wind energy advisory commission's report released this month said its initial information does not suggest wind turbines pose "significant detrimental impacts" on property values, tourism or other concens.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's new Democratic governor is set to sign senior housing bonds held up by her Republican predecessor since 2015.

Gov. Janet Mills' office said she intends to sign the bonds Tuesday.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage refused to release the bonds for years to protect Maine's fiscal health. He argued that releasing the bonds would enrich a few individuals, although he did not provide any proof of this.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine has taken steps to expand Medicaid without a federal stamp of approval, but the woman nominated to lead the state's health agency said there's no question that Maine will receive federal funding.