PORTLAND (AP) — Police in Portland, Maine will now consider new recruits who are non-citizens and who have recently used marijuana. The Portland Press Herald reports the city’s police department is loosening its hiring policies during a time when departments across the state are struggling to find new recruits. The department says non-citizen candidates qualify […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage wants to boost the salary for the next governor. LePage, a Republican, has said that the $70,000 annual salary is too low to attract the best talent, and he’s proposing boosting it to $150,000 for the next governor. He said the salary would go from the nation’s lowest […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A bill in Maine that would have loosened restrictions on parents having guns in their cars on school grounds has failed to get a single affirmative vote, not even from the legislator who sponsored it. Democratic state Rep. John Martin asked his House colleagues to reject his bill because of the recent […]

PORTLAND (AP) — U.S. senators from Maine and Vermont say they have reintroduced a bill designed to curb youth homelessness and provide help for young victims of trafficking. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont say the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act would continue grants to […]

SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — A petition to roll back regulations restricting short-term rentals through services like Airbnb has forced a Maine city to reconsider the rules. Petitioners in South Portland gathered more than 1,000 signatures in opposition to a new requirement that owners live in their rental homes. The successful drive forces the City Council […]