Maine redistricting thrown into confusion by census delay, constitutional Catch-22

The state’s process insulates against gerrymandering, unless one party has supermajority control of the Legislature.

Society Notebook: Spurwink’s virtual gala succinct but still inspirational

The nonprofit provider of behavorial health and education services recognized Community Housing of Maine Executive Director Cullen Ryan as its humanitarian of the year.

How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week

Among other legislation, the House agreed to the Senate amendment to the Medicare Sequester Act to exempt Medicare from pay-as-you-go budget limits in the most recent COVID-19 stimulus spending law.

Read the Maine State Police discipline records

Newspapers join forces in lawsuit, investigation

Competing Maine newspapers team up, and get financial and legal support, to find out what the Maine State Police is concealing about officer misconduct.

Inside the Maine State Police, officer misdeeds are kept secret

The Maine State Police conducted more than 200 internal affairs investigations in the past six years and found allegations to be true in 65 cases, but the misconduct is kept hidden in all but a small number.

Clammers digging through pandemic, but shellfish are fewer

More New Englanders have dug in the tidal mudflats during the last year, but they’re finding fewer clams

Maine researchers discover ‘forever chemicals,’ other pollutants around summit of Everest

Researchers from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute find toxic elements smudging the world's tallest peak in ways unseen and previously unstudied.

As annual town meeting attendance dwindles, is secret ballot the way to go?

Towns that utilized a secret ballot for recent town meetings saw a larger turnout than those that stuck with tradition.

Central Maine farmers were prepared for the weather, even if it didn’t happen

A nor'easter was expected but didn't turn into much. Local farmers were prepared nonetheless.