Billy Kobin News Today

Family members testified on Thursday about months-long efforts to try to get Robert Card II into treatment amid his concerning behavior.

Portland Press Herald. April 21, 2024.

"The gun safety bills passed by lawmakers this session, notably the governor’s legislation, are a significant step forward for Maine."

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA -- Gov. Janet Mills declined to take a position Wednesday on a set of new gun-control and mental health proposals from Democratic lawmakers that go farther than her policy response to the Lewiston mass shooting.

The commission investigating the Lewiston mass shooting heard from members of the Lewiston and Lisbon police departments on Thursday.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, something stinks in the state of Maine. I get that Lewiston shook a lot of people up. It was a horrific tragedy in a state that doesn’t see such things and has long su...

Dozens of challenges nationally have argued the 14th Amendment should bar Trump from running again, but none have succeeded to date.

"Projected surpluses like this, which have basically become the norm in recent years, are somewhat illusory when so many unmet needs persist across the state."

The shooting review commission is made up of seven members tasked with reviewing the lead-up and police response to the Oct. 25 massacre.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — Lawmakers will consider rolling back strict new rules requiring Mainers to disconnect fossil fuel-burning furnaces and boilers to claim the largest heat pump incentives. A proposal from Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, would “seek to find some middle ground” by removing some of the new rebate rules on installing whole-home heat pump systems in specific areas of the state based on temperatures, his spokesperson, Christine Kirby, s...