A state judge has ordered Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration to file paperwork to expand Medicaid as voters demanded despite an ongoing appeal, and the governor vowed to fight the order Monday.

Gov. Paul LePage’s administration is seeking public comment on wind energy development after a controversial executive order on that issue earlier this year, but LePage and his staff aren’t saying who is on an advisory panel after disclosing in a lawsuit that it was formed in May.

Sen.Collins on Sunday called the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of pressing criminal charges against immigrants and separating children from their families “inconsistent with American values” and “traumatizing” to children.

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is still locked in ranked-choice counting and the Legislature will be back in Augusta on Tuesday to vote on a spending package.

The Legislature will return next week for a special session over the objections of Gov. Paul LePage, who accused House Republicans who are typically loyal to him of “giving in because it’s an election year.”

Good morning from Augusta, where by now there should be a substantial pile amassing of ballots and other materials from Tuesday’s primary election. But that does not mean we’ll have declared winners before next week.

A man and woman from Yarmouth proved to have a talent for tossing small bags filled with corn kernels when they defeated 25 other two-person teams at the first annual Cornhole Tournament which the Fort Kent Lions Club hosted on Saturday, June 16.

PAWS Animal Welfare Shelter presents Toni as the Pet of the Week.

The Fort Kent Knights of Columbus have announced the winner of their ongoing lotto fundraiser for the week of June 11-17, 2018.

Kaleb Daigle, 2, of St. Agatha said he already plans on becoming a firefighter when he grows up.

Photographer and Fort Kent Elementary School educator Stacy Belanger captured this image of a moose in the backwoods of northern Maine on Friday

The annual Midsommar Festival in New Sweden, slated Friday, June 22, through Sunday, June 24, will feature special hometown talent by way of Montreal.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

E.A. Williams cartoon for June 13, 2018.

Today we go up, up and away, to talk about balloons, specifically weather balloons. They are an indispensable tool used by weather forecasters.

It’s that time of year again when genealogists are apt to feel the urge to track down a family cemetery.

About 3 1/2 years ago, I lost my dad, and so, as we all do, we put flowers on the grave of our loved ones.

Fellow retiree Brent Elwell and I met at Pelletier’s Campground in St. Francis on a warm spring evening.