Forcing people from their homes causes economic harm and exacerbates the public health crisis, supporters say.

Most of the legislation is in direct response to actions by Trump that Democrats saw as abuses of presidential power, including his firing of agency whistleblowers, his defiance of congressional subpoenas and his campaign’s interactions with Russians in the 2016 election.

Medicare officials say they are encouraged that even as the delta variant has swept across the country, outbreaks in nursing homes have not raced out of control as happened last year.

The animals had gathered Saturday under a tree during a rainstorm and died when lightning struck the tree and traveled downward to the ground.

Gage Dalphonse is on trial in Augusta for killing Jean Fournier following a confrontation in 2019.

The Greene Block + Studios was dedicated at a ceremony Tuesday.

President Biden is facing a healthy measure of skepticism from allies during his week of high-level diplomacy as he summons allies to quickly address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses.

Detectives and the medical examiner recovered remains that will undergo post-mortem examination.

Ryan Fecteau is one of almost 900 state lawmakers in the country who signed on to an amicus brief in support of abortion rights in the Dobbs vs. Women's Health Organization court case.

More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants had been removed from an encampment at Del Rio, Texas.

The bands, scheduled to perform in Portland, made the decision out of concern about spreading COVID-19.

The donation to the project planned for the Portland campus comes from philanthropist Suzi Osher, in honor of her late husband.

LePage, a Republican who served from 2011 to 2019, will formally announce his campaign seeking to challenge incumbent Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, during a rally with supporters at the Augusta Civic Center on Wednesday.

33 companies said they were joining the Tent Coalition for Afghan Refugees, a coalition founded by Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of yogurt and food company Chobani.

The autopsy comes one day after authorities called off their search for Brian Laundrie, who is considered "a person of interest" in the case.

Once a routine matter, now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to provide Republican votes, even though he also relied on Democratic votes help raise the debt ceiling when his party had the majority.

The state also is reporting 632 new cases of COVID-19 over a three-day period.

Johnson & Johnson released data showing that a booster dose to its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a strong immune response months after people receive a first dose.