Politics & Government

Calais residents took to the polls on November 6 and favored withdrawing from AOS #77 by a margin of 62% to 38%. The vote in the local referendum question was 877 to 534.

While the race for the next U.S. president has generated much attention on the national political scene, and the contest for a new U.S.

Free passage into Canadian waters around Passamaquoddy Bay appears to have ended, as U.S. boaters recently have been stopped by Canadian officials while they have been in Canadian waters and told they must obtain clearance, even if they do not intend to land in Canada.

Maine voters will be facing some full slates of candidates in the primary election on Tuesday, June 12. With U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe deciding not to seek reelection, 11 candidates have jumped into the race for U.S. Senate.

Following public hearings last October and December, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced on February 17 its decision to renew the operating license for the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station for a five-year period, until June 30, 2017.

Adopting guidelines for casino gambling in Maine, allowing communities to benefit from local renewable energy projects, expanding the elver fishery and making it a crime to falsely affiliate oneself with a federally recognized tribe are among the topics of bills that area legislators have...