Politics & Government

Bills to address the suicide and opioid crises in Washington County and to review state lands that are significant to the tribes in Maine will be considered during the second session of the 130th Maine Legislature.

With the Maine Legislature still debating a tribal sovereignty bill that would reframe the relationship between the state and the tribes in Maine, an understanding of federal Indian law and how the state is an outlier in the country in its adversarial approach to the tribes was the focus of a...

Maine residents will have three state referendum questions to vote on at the Tuesday, November 2, polls, with the referendum on the Central Maine Power (CMP) corridor garnering a great deal of attention and money, as spending by lobbying efforts topped $60 million as of October 1.

The United States intends to allow fully vaccinated travellers to enter the country for nonessential purposes by land and ferry from Canada and Mexico in November, says Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

While Washington County may lose some representation in the state legislature with the new redistricting maps that were recently approved, whether the county, which lost more than 5% of its population in the past 10 years, will have less of a voice in Augusta is not yet clear.

Maine Governor Janet Mills and the state's congressional delegation want the U.S. government to follow Canada's lead in easing restrictions on nonessential travel across the shared border.