Members of Maine’s part-time Legislature will make $45,000 for the two-year term after previously making around $28,000. They ...

Lawmakers gathering in Augusta next week to start the 132nd Legislature will make more money than their predecessors, who voted last session to increase compensation by 61%. A bill inserted into Gov.

The new year will bring state lawmakers back to Augusta for the first part of the 132nd session of the Maine Legislature, ...

Maine lawmakers will begin the new year with fatter paychecks under a previously approved law that bumps up pay by more than ...

For the first time for many Maine legislators, they have hope that change is coming to make lawmaking more transparent and ...

A Maine attorney who helped legalize same-sex marriage in the state and nationwide has been chosen to receive the second-highest civilian award in the United States.President Joe Biden bestowed the ...

GOP Sen. Scott Cyrway supports Democratic Sen. Joe Baldacci's tax relief plan. Where the money to pay for it should come from is another conversation.

Maine's child welfare watchdog has once again found deficiencies in how state caseworkers investigate possible abuse or neglect and how they work to reunify parents with children who have been ...

President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Citizens Medal upon Mary Bonauto and 19 others Thursday night at the White House.

At the latest meeting of a group drafting legislation, a state official said proposed language doesn’t fit the scope of the ...

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine has a small population and a part-time Legislature, but state leaders and ...