On Saturday, Maine Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Marra announced to the Democratic State Committee that Executive Director Katie Mae Simpson will be stepping back from the role. Lisa Roberts, currently serving as MDP’s Deputy Director, will begin her tenure as Executive Director immediately.

If the Legislature approves, Maine will join the move to change the Electoral College system by having states award electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote.

Superintendent Howard Tuttle spoke to the Chelsea Selectboard on Thursday about the budget, which could jump 6 percent locally.

The vote is the latest effort to close the school, which officials have debated keeping open since 2009 in light of declining enrollment.

The Department of Health and Human Services says the Working Families Supplement benefit will increase from $15 to $50 in month for about 13,000 residents.

A national movement would alter the role of the Electoral College and become law if enough states, including Maine, support the change.

Only two weeks after it signed a $150,000, three-year contract for a marijuana track-and-trace service using a system called Metrc, state agencies have withdrawn the contract and issued another, broader request for proposals.

Four Maine hospitals, including one in Bangor, will receive less funding from the federal Medicare program this year as a penalty for having high rates of infections and other patient complications, federal records show.

Focus is increasing on access to farmland and its potential as a renewed economic driver for Maine as potential new farmers look for land and established ones get ready to retire.

Mid Coast-Parkview Health — the Brunswick-based health care network that expanded in 2015 when Mid Coast Hospital merged with Parkview Adventist Medical Center — is exploring the possibility of integrating into the MaineHealth system.

U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) commended the work of the men and women in Maine’s fishing industry at the Maine Fisherman’s Forum in Rockport today, listening first-hand to the priorities and concerns of Maine fishermen from around the state.

A Maine Republican’s bill that sought to ban teachers from discussing political or ideological advocacy with students has been unanimously rejected by a state legislative committee.

A deal with a Florida company to provide seed-to-sale tracking has been set aside and will be rebid.

Conservative lawmakers long have pushed for requiring government-issued photo IDs at the polls, despite a lack of evidence of voter fraud.

The debate over two land-based salmon farms in Penobscot Bay spilled inland to Augusta on Thursday during a public hearing on a proposed law that would affect the licensing of such projects.

State officials say Maine fishermen caught $46 million more worth of lobster in 2018 than they did the previous year.

James W. Sewall Co. announced today that Kay Rand, who recently stepped down as U.S. Sen. Angus King’s chief of staff, has joined the company’s board of directors as an outside member.

U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), and U.S. Representatives Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) today reintroduced bipartisan, bicameral companion legislation that would incentivize the use of energy efficiency biomass heaters in homes and businesses instead of relying on fossil fuel energy.

Area towns have provided results of their Town Meetings.