How the federal budget proposal to slash billions from Medicaid could affect Maine

How the federal budget proposal to slash billions from Medicaid could affect Maine

State officials, health care providers and advocates say the proposed cuts would have drastic consequences.

Versant Power’s rates will go up next week

Increases for residential customers will be around 31 cents a month or $2.80 per month, depending on which district the customer is in.

Maine had among the nation’s top growth in productivity last year

Labor productivity describes the amount of goods and services produced per hour worked.

How to watch Cooper Flagg in the NBA draft

Mainers’ eyes are on Newport native Cooper Flagg, who is expected to be the overall No. 1 draft pick this year.

Maine supreme court to decide whether state must release people without lawyers from jails

Kennebec County Superior Justice Michaela Murphy ruled in March that Maine has violated the Sixth Amendment rights of indigent defendants.

One of Maine’s only NBA draft picks can’t believe what Cooper Flagg has done

“He's the greatest thing to happen to basketball in the state of Maine,” Skip Chappelle said about Cooper Flagg this week.

Paper mills in Maine and across the US releasing more greenhouse gases than federal data shows

As the Trump administration eyes rollbacks on industrial emissions limits, a new report claims that paper mills are already dirtier than they appear.

This former Bangor department head is now leading an Aroostook town

Aaron Huotari is Fort Fairfield’s fourth town manager in the last decade, but the first to come from outside Aroostook County.

Halal butchery owners frustrated by town’s months-long delay in approving expansion

The owners of Five Pillars Halal Butchery, Kathryn Piper and Hussam Al-Rawi, originally hoped to start building the expansion this summer.

Rick Bennett leaves Republican Party to run for governor as an independent

The former Maine Senate president ran for Congress in 1994 and in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in 2012.

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