Governor Janet Mills announced Monday, that the first round of $450 winter energy relief payments are being mailed to eligible Maine taxpayers today. The $450 Winter Relief Payments are part of Governor Mills’ Emergency Energy Relief Plan to help keep Maine people...
Under the Maine Department of Transportation’s (MaineDOT) three-year work plan for 2021-2023, released Jan. 25, nearly $1.4 billion is set aside for highway and bridge capital projects. The plan — which includes all capital projects and programs, maintenance and...
Beginning this week, members of the 131st Legislature started their review of more than 2,100 bills submitted for the upcoming session that range from designating a state rock to passing constitutional amendments that would guarantee the right to an abortion,...
The state housing authority has issued RFPs to provide overnight warming shelters this winter, and other long-term solutions for next winter and beyond. MaineHousing is preparing to spend $21 million to provide overnight warming shelters this winter and other...
Governor Janet Mills, Senate President Troy Jackson, and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross announced legislation to strengthen Maine’s reproductive health care laws. The legislation is inspired by the story of Yarmouth resident Dana Peirce. In 2019, Peirce was...
Governor Janet Mills announced today that she has appointed Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford, former Speaker of the Maine of House of Representatives, as Senior Advisor for Community Development and Strategic Initiatives in the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the...
Governor Janet Mills unveiled her Administration’s budget proposal for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-2025 biennium. The proposal builds on her last budget by continuing her free community college initiative for another two years, expanding pre-K, building more housing,...
Many Maine residents will soon receive $450 checks to help cover rising heat and electricity bills this winter after state lawmaker approved an emergency spending bill on Wednesday. The centerpiece of the $473 million spending bill is the $450 checks that could begin...
Janet Mills, Maine’s first female governor began her second four-year term after taking the oath of office Wednesday only hours after signing an emergency $473 million heating and energy relief bill into law. Mills, 74, defeated former two-term Republican Gov. Paul...
December 2nd – Both chambers of Congress have passed a resolution to codify the terms of a September railway labor agreement. It now goes to President Biden for his signature. This binding measure was passed under authority provided to Congress by the Railway...
MAINEHOUSING ISSUES $11 MILLION IN EARLY HEATING ASSISTANCE HELP TRANSFER OF FUNDS HAS ALLOWED THE STATE’S HOUSING FINANCE AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE THE FUNDING TO ELIGIBLE HOMES NEARLY A MONTH EARLY AUGUSTA – MaineHousing Thursday announced it has released $11...
By Matt Curren PORTLAND (WGME) – The high price of energy is turning into a factor in this fall’s elections, with a new survey showing strong support in Maine to not follow California’s lead when it comes to accelerating efforts to “go green.”...
