Maine’s Democrat Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill on July 19 that would bar foreign governments from influencing state elections or ballot measures, but the state Legislature will make the final decision next week on whether the measure becomes law. The governor cited constitutionality concerns as one of her reasons for blocking the bill (pdf),…

NEWRY, Maine—A competitor was killed in a crash on the first day of a rally race through a forest in western Maine, leading organizers to cancel the event’s second day. Erin Kelly, a 48-year-old woman from Marshall, Virginia, was killed Friday when her team’s car crashed near Lower Richardson Lake during the New England Forest…

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has filed a proposal with the secretary of state to remove the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. In a July 11 press release, the department said the proposal was based on evolving scientific evidence and trends including available clinical and epidemiological data about COVID-19, increased…

The nonprofit National Trust for Local News is set to purchase a string of daily and weekly newspapers in Maine, including the Portland Press Herald, officials confirmed on July 10. The deal is set to be finalized in late July, and will also include all of the other assets of Masthead Maine, which also owns…

Dominick Varney, known as Priscilla Poppycocks when performing in drag, paints his social media page with sexual innuendo. Yet Maine’s Bangor High School (BHS) paid him $1,000 to put on a workshop with a theme of his choice for LGBT students in May. “I just know you are a role model for these kids, and…

Maine’s Welcome Home nickname should be Welcome Woke, say some Republicans in the New England state. Last week alone, Maine’s Democratic lawmakers shot down a parental consent bill over the use of alternative gender pronouns in school,  passed one of the largest tax hikes in Maine’s history, and one of the most liberal late-term abortion…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) overstepped its authority with a plan for lobstermen to reduce the lines they place in the water by 98 percent within ten years. “It’s a huge win,” eighth-generation lobsterman Jason Joyce of Swans Island, Maine, told…

PORTLAND, Maine—A man charged with four counts of murder for allegedly killing his parents and two others in a series of shootings that shook Maine earlier this year has been indicted, officials said on Friday. Law enforcement officials say 34-year-old Joseph Eaton confessed to police to the killings at a property in rural Bowdoin and…

PORTLAND, Maine—A frantic 911 call to report at least one person had been fatally shot led law enforcement to discover four bodies at a home in Maine and eventually to arrest a man who fired at vehicles on a nearby highway before confessing to police that he was behind the killings. According to heavily redacted…

A state police officer opened fire at a man near the U.S.-Canada border on Monday. The man was driving a truck that had a sign claiming there was an explosive device on board. A state trooper noticed the sign after he tried to stop the man around 10:40 a.m. Maine State Police troopers pursued the…