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The Senate’s unanimous confirmation vote followed a unanimous vote by the Legislature’s judiciary committee. Gov. Janet Mills will swear in Judge Rick E. Lawrence later this month.

AUGUSTA — On Tuesday, the Maine Senate voted to confirm Judge Rick E. Lawrence to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Judge Lawrence is the first Black Mainer to be appointed to the state’s highest court. “I am deeply honored by the opportunity to...

Maine set big goals for this industry: 3,000 megawatts of wind power by 2020 — but the state has come up far short of those goals so far.

State's bid for better access has been stymied by high cost, misleading maps and Maine's rural nature.

No waste from other states has been a guiding principle of Maine’s trash laws since the late 1980s. It’s also misleading: Other states have sent hundreds of thousands of tons of construction waste to the state dump over the years.

Environmental activists, neighbors of the landfill including the Penobscot Nation and a growing group of lawmakers have decried the unique set of circumstances that allow private companies to dump so much material from Massachusetts into the state facility, despite laws that were once meant to prevent that.

There are now three different forms of business equipment taxation, and nobody can say whether any of it actually improved outcomes.

Over the last few decades, businesses have made off with the federal, state and local taxbase.

If confirmed, Judge Lawrence would be the first black justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Mary Jane Krebs, president of southern Maine’s only private, nonprofit psychiatric hospital, built a legacy of excellence in delivering patient-centered care over the past 50 years.