Maine House

Maine might ban traffic stops that are intended as a way to investigate unrelated criminal activity. Such traffic stops are sometimes called “pretextual” stops. A proposal by Democratic Rep. Victoria Morales of South Portland would end the practice. The Maine House of Representatives voted to advance the proposal on Tuesday. The Maine Legislature House Democratic Office says the bill is…

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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.