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AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage announced today that he is not favor of raising taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.

University of Maine, Orono unveiled the base for its 1/8 scale wind turbine which will be floated down the Penobscot River and out to the Gulf of Maine where it will become the first floating wind turbine off the coast of the U.S. Buy Photo We agree with Patrick Woodcock, director of the Governor's Energy Office, that it's time for a comprehensive ... (more)

A bill sponsored by freshman Rep. Matthea Daughtry, D-Brunswick, has fiercely divided Brunswick's legislative delegation and town officials, further inflaming years of conflict over redevelopment of the former Navy base.

Ethan : I have to say, I think the Democrats' move to tie Gov. Paul LePage's hospital payment plan with a demand that he agree to expand health care coverage is brilliant.

Rick Bennett of Oxford talks about fixing the national debt to several hundred people gathered at the monthly breakfast meeting of the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce at Lost Valley in Auburn on Thursday.

Gov. Paul LePage wants to strip from state law goals for increasing the state's wind energy capacity over the next two decades.

Maine would replace party caucuses with a nonpartisan presidential primary and elect its governor, legislators and federal officials with ranked-choice voting under a system proposed Monday in the Legislature.

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine said Friday that she will not run for governor on the Democratic ticket in 2014.

At long last, Governor LePage has finally chosen to directly address the ever growing number of local municipal and school district voter passed resolutions against his administration's biannual budget with its zero revenue sharing scheme- by essentially throwing his hands in the air and telling the towns to figure out the problems among ... (more)

AUGUSTA Democratic legislative leaders told Gov. Paul LePage that they'll pass his plan to pay back Maine's hospitals.

Pingree, U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud and former Gov. John Baldacci have publicly considered running for the Democratic nomination for governor against Republican Gov.