Latest Maine Headlines
All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maine Farmers Seek $100M Plan to Tackle PFAS Contamination
Mar 18 2022 // Maine farmers and the state’s agriculture commissioner have testified in favor of a proposal that would create a $100 million fund to help pay for problems caused by long-lasting chemicals. The Maine Legislature is...
Maine Rights Panel Finds Senior Facility Discriminated Against Transgender Woman
Mar 17 2022 // Maine’s human rights panel has ruled in favor of a transgender woman who complained that she was discriminated against when she was denied a room by an assisted living facility. The Maine Human Rights Commission...
University’s Governmental Immunity Extends to Parking Lot, Maine Supreme Court Rules
Mar 16 2022 // The state cannot be held liable for injuries sustained in a parking lot that is regularly used by people accessing a public building, the Maine Supreme Court has ruled. On March 15, in Klein v. University of Maine System,...
Maine Lawmakers Advance Bill Regulating Corporate Use of Biometric Data
Mar 14 2022 // Maine is looking to enact tougher regulations about corporate collection of biometric data. The proposal before the Maine Legislature would require companies to get consent before they collect biometric information such as...
Long-Time Maine Insurance Regulator Cioppa to Retire April 1
Mar 11 2022 // After 33 years at the Maine Bureau of Insurance, including 10 as superintendent and 13 as deputy superintendent, Eric Cioppa will retire on April 1, 2022. Cioppa joined the insurance department in 1988 as a statistician...
Maine Ski Lift Accident Could Have Been Worse
Mar 8 2022 // A ski lift accident that sent a gondola falling to the ground at Sunday River Resort in western Maine could have been far more serious. There was only one occupant in the gondola, which has a capacity of eight riders, and...
Maine Farmers Want Ban on ‘Forever Chemical’ Sludge in Fields
Mar 3 2022 // Maine farmers want lawmakers to pass a bill banning fertilizer and compost containing wastewater sludge that’s been linked to toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions. Sometimes called...
Maine Mother Nears $10M Settlement Over Clinic Failure to Report Abuse
Mar 2 2022 // The federal government has agreed to pay $10 million to a Maine woman after a medical clinic failed to tell her or the state about signs that her son had been abused, according to court records. The agreement between the...
Maine Senate Advances Equal Rights Amendment
Feb 25 2022 // Maine’s Senate voted Wednesday to advance a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would prohibit discrimination based on gender, although it will require further votes. The 22-12 vote keeps the proposal...
Maine Eyes Additional Funding to Fight ‘Forever Chemicals’
Feb 22 2022 // Maine lawmakers are going to consider more funding to fight “forever chemicals” as more farms discover contamination. Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — known as PFAS — have been found in...
Man Found With Severed Arm Injured Himself, Maine Police Conclude
Feb 11 2022 // A man discovered stumbling downtown in Lewiston with a severed arm is believed to have inflicted the injury himself, police said. The victim was injured with a band saw used to cut meat, but didn’t work at the market...
Hospital Violated Maine’s Equal Pay Law, Judge Rules
Feb 11 2022 // A federal judge has ruled that a Maine hospital violated the state’s equal pay law by paying a female psychologist barely half the wage of her male colleagues. The judge ruled that Northern Light Acadia Hospital...
Maine Moves to Extend Workers’ Comp Mental Health Benefit for First Responders
Feb 9 2022 // A Maine legislative committee has signed off on a proposal to help emergency responders gain better access to mental health support. The proposal would continue a presumption that firefighters, emergency medical...
Maine Diocese Deems Abuse Allegations Against 2 Priests Credible
Feb 3 2022 // Complaints alleging that two priests sexually abused children in the 1950s and 1970s have been deemed credible by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland. One of the complaints focused on Renald Hallee, who served in Bangor...
Maine Finds ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Wells in Kittery Homes
Jan 28 2022 // Testing wells in a Maine town contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) and the chemicals may have traveled through well systems and drinking water, the state’s department of environmental protection found. Last month,...
OSHA Investigating Maine Case of Man Found Carrying Own Severed Arm
Jan 25 2022 // A man who stumbled along a street while carrying his own severed arm was saved by two public workers who saw him and happened to be trained in the use of tourniquets, authorities in Maine said. “It had to be divine...
Maine College Settles with Female Coaches on Pay, Treatment
Jan 24 2022 // Attorneys for a Maine college and five female athletics coaches said Friday they have reached a settlement stemming from a lawsuit over fair pay and working conditions. Lawyers representing Colby College and the coaches...
Federal Judge Divides Insurance Proceeds in Maine Fishing Boat Tragedy
Jan 7 2022 // A federal judge has divided almost $1 million in insurance proceeds between the families of four fishermen who died in 2020 when a fishing boat sank in high seas off the coast of Massachusetts. U.S. District Judge John...
Regulators to Investigate Claims Against Central Maine Power Parent in Suit
Dec 15 2021 // Maine utility regulators will investigate allegations raised in a lawsuit against the parent company of Central Maine Power. The investigation by the Maine Public Utilities Commission will focus on whether Avangrid’s...
Maine Roofing Contractor Found Not Guilty in Death of Worker
Dec 14 2021 // A jury has found that a roofing contractor in Maine is not guilty of workplace manslaughter for the 2018 death of a worker. The Portland Press Herald reports that the jury reached its verdict at the Cumberland County...
