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The potential changes come as Maine courts have struggled with a backlog of cases and a shortage of attorneys for low-income adults.

Reporting by the Maine Sunday Telegram pierced through city-wide noise in Portland with a corrective focus on people and personal accounts.

Maine voters could face a ballot question on whether to adopt the 1909 state flag, also known as the Pine Tree Flag.

The Maine legislature has a massive list of bills in funding purgatory.

A bill that would expand the scope of Maine’s criminal code for assaults against an emergency care provider passed easily in both chambers last week but advocates say there is still more to be done to protect health care workers. Maine law currently...

As the bill awaits final passage, some advocates say there’s more to be done to prevent violence in health care settings.

Bill awaits final passage, but some advocates say there’s more to be done to prevent violence against health care workers.

The bill, LD 1119, awaits final passage, but some advocates say there’s more to be done to prevent violence in health care settings.

The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services received no additional funding from the budget

Lawmakers are making a second attempt at hiring Maine’s first public defenders with a $8.1 million proposal to the state budget committee. Gov. Janet Mills left $20 million unallocated for lawmakers to distribute across all state programs in her...