Maine Morning Star

Frances Killea with the Natural Resources Council of Maine (left) and Sally Stockwell with Maine Audubon, hiking Wheeler Brook trail in September. The area is part of an unbroken stretch of land across the New Hampshire and Maine border, and would be affected by the Trump Administration's proposed rollback of the Roadless Rule protections. (Photo by Kai...

Rep. Laurel Libby at a June 23, 2026 press conference announcing a petition to prompt Maine's health department to change Medicaid oversight rules. (Photo by Eesha Pendharkar/Maine Morning Star)

At a public hearing Thursday, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services heard from more than a dozen legislators and members of the public who sai...

Bobby Charles at a Portland press conference on Sept. 9, 2026 in response to his sister's public criticisms (Photo by Eesha Pendharkar/Maine Morning Star)

Drawing on her own experience of being sexually abused as a child, Republican gubernatorial nominee Bobby Charles’ sister, Anita Charles, criticized his record on abortion at a Wednesday press c...

The entrance to the Maine Department of Corrections in Augusta. Feb. 25, 2025. (Photo by Jim Neuger/ Maine Morning Star)

Commissioner of the Maine Department of Corrections Randall Liberty is retiring on Oct. 1 after seven years in the post and more than four decades of corrections, military and law enforcement service. 

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Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine tours the Maine Energy Marketers Association Technical Education Center in Brunswick on Sept. 3, 2026. (Photo by Emma Davis/ Maine Morning Star)

As the only Senate Republican representing a state that has voted three times against President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is once again amplifying h...