The Maine Senate returned for a one-day session Wednesday to confirm more than 40 nominees to assorted state positions. Senators unanimously confirmed Gerald Reid as a Maine Superior Court justice.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maine Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill gives the State of the Judiciary address before a joint session of the Maine legislature in ...

FILE-Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks to the media in this July 19, 2023, file photo, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file) PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine officials said ...

PORTLAND, Maine — The deadline has arrived for Maine officials to reach a resolution with the U.S. Education Department over a finding that the state violated antidiscrimination laws by allowing ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of Maine announced Tuesday they have entered into a settlement that requires the state to increase community-based ...

The Justice Department sued Maine’s Department of Education on Wednesday over its refusal to comply with demands to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, an escalation of a ...

Maine has tried to send fewer teenagers to prison, emphasizing rehabilitation programs instead. But the rural north of the state shows the effort has played out unevenly. The highway to Caribou in ...

Maine officials said Friday the state will not comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports in the wake of a Trump administration finding that the state violated antidiscrimination ...