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The City Council is divided on enacting the ordinance that would cap larger landlords' rent increases at 10% annually.

City Councilors vote 5-2 in support of the ban, joining three other Maine communities.

Maine, one of the demographically whitest states in the US is about to have a more diverse legisature.

The Maine House of Representatives elected Rachel Talbot Ross, 62, as the first Black person to lead the state's House of Representatives.

The election of three Black women adds more diversity to the Legislature in the nation's whitest state.

The new legislative session began on a historic note with the Portland Democrat getting sworn in 50 years after father became the state's first Black lawmaker.

Republicans in the Maine Senate rejected the bill, which fell short of getting a two-thirds majority needed to pass as emergency legislation and take effect immediately.

Maine has seen more people of color and women hold office in recent years.

Amid its historic achievement of diversity — including the first Black woman elected as Speaker of the House in the Legislature's 202-year history — major challenges loom.

When Jill Duson made Maine political history over 20 years ago, she was the first and only Black woman on Portland’s school board and later its city council. When she takes office Wednesday, she’ll be among five Black state lawmakers, four of whom...