Mainers will pay more for cigarettes, cannabis and streaming services under a supplemental state budget approved by the ...

The roughly $320 million spending bill would provide tens of millions of dollars to nursing homes and plug a funding ...

State lawmakers are nearing a final vote on a two-year budget as they work to wrap up the legislative session ahead of a self ...

Lawmakers narrowly approved adding $320 million in spending and additional taxes to the state's next two-year budget that was voted on this spring, after a brief rebellion among progressive Democrats ...

The budget bill was pushed forward in the Senate and eventually passed in the House after an initial "no" vote on Wednesday.

Gov. Janet Mills wants to continue offering high school grads two years of free community college. But a legislative ...

According to the Maine Community College System, high schoolers in the class of 2025 would be the last to qualify for free ...

Maine lawmakers have concluded the bulk of their work for the legislative session. In the last five and a half months, they passed an $11.3 billion two-year budget, plus an additional $320 million in ...

The $320 million plan, which is expected to be printed Tuesday, adds new initiatives and taxes to the two-year budget that ...

As Maine lawmakers hash out a new budget, the Legislature’s budget-writing committee has proposed discontinuing the state’s ...

Child care advocates in Maine are calling on state legislators to reject Governor Janet Mills' proposed cuts to child care ...

Childcare providers, parents, and advocates rally against proposed budget cuts that threaten wage support and early education programs across Maine.