Maine House

Maine House Democrats have selected a lawmaker to succeed House Speaker Sara Gideon who would be the youngest House speaker in the country serving currently and the first openly gay man to serve in the leadership position in Maine. Rep. Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford was nominated by fellow Democrats to serve as speaker. Since Democrats control the House, it’s...

Maine’s Legislature includes the state’s first recorded instance of a father and daughter serving side-by-side in the same chamber.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins has a well-funded Democrat prepping to challenge her next year. She has national women’s groups ready to attack her over her vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanagh. And she’s a moderate facing an electorate that increasingly prioritizes purity. Still, the four-term Maine senator’s biggest hurdle to reelection may be the president of her own...

Congressional bargainers formally completed a bipartisan border security pact late Wednesday and President Donald Trump labored to frame it as a political win, even though it contains only a fraction of the billions for a “great, powerful wall” that he’s been demanding for months. Trump is expected to grudgingly accept the agreement, which was completed just before midnight. The measure...

Maine’s Legislature includes the state’s first recorded instance of a father and daughter serving side-by-side in the same chamber.

The nonprofit running what once was the largest U.S. detention camp housing migrant teenagers said the last children left the facility Friday. The tent city in Tornillo, Texas, is shutting down, and all tents and equipment will be removed from the site by the end of January, said Krista Piferrer, spokeswoman of BCFS Health and Human Services. The U.S. Department...

As the government’s partial shutdown pushed toward a third week, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are feeling the financial pinch. They’re calling mortgage companies, hoping for a break, and weighing the risks of letting other bills go unpaid. They’re reheating leftovers and turning down the thermostat to save a few bucks. They’re looking into applying for loans or unemployment...

People on both sides of the gun control debate took to social media after a doctored animation and photo appeared to show one of the most prominent survivors of the Florida school shooting tearing up the Constitution. The image of Emma Gonzalez was doctored from “Teen Vogue” in which she ripped up a shooting range target. The doctored animation, and...

Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes, who survived the terrorist attack during his band’s concert at the Bataclan theater in Paris in 2015, took to Instagram Sunday to slam the survivors of the Parkland shooting as “vile abusers of the dead,” in the wake of Saturday’s student-led March For Our Lives demonstrations across the country.

Former Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves has become the seventh person to throw his hat into the Maine governor’s race.

Gov. Paul LePage has vetoed a bill to add a refundable deposit fee to 50 milliliter bottles of alcohol, and he’s threatened to ban their sale entirely in Maine if lawmakers override his veto.

Gov. Paul LePage has vetoed a bill to add a refundable deposit fee to 50 milliliter bottles of alcohol, and he’s threatened to ban their sale entirely in Maine if lawmakers override his veto.

Maine’s highest court is asking tough questions about the constitutionality of an election overhaul approved by voters last fall.

Maine’s highest court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality of an election overhaul approved by voters last fall.