The Greater Portland METRO bus service plans changes in both the cost of riding the bus and how people pay for it, and has scheduled a series of meetings across the seven communities that use the service for input.

Weeks after Portland International Jetport announced it had its all-time busiest year in 2018, Bangor International Airport has announced that 2018 was a record-breaker there, too.

In response to reports nationwide regarding the prevalence of a perfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, Governor Janet Mills today signed an Executive Order creating a Governor’s Task Force to mobilize state agencies and other stakeholders to review the prevalence of PFAS in Maine and put forward a plan to address it.

Nearly 200 residents were nearly unanimous in rescinding the selectpersons’ letter supporting the $950 million transmission line from Quebec to Massachusetts.

Governor Janet Mills announced today she has selected leading energy expert and Maine native Dan Burgess to direct the Governor’s Energy Office.

The utility should fulfill the benefits that it promises up front.

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.

Sen. Angus King should keep up the pressure to address inconsistencies revealed by the agency’s first-ever audit.

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$150,000, three-year contract for a marijuana track-and-trace service using a system called Metrc, state agencies have withdrawn the contract and issued another, broader request for proposals.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