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Gov. Mills' Office has said she will sign the bill.

VERONA ISLAND — A bill sponsored by Sen. Chip Curry (D-Belfast) to install a suicide barrier on the Penobscot Narrows Bridge has been signed into law by Governor Janet Mills.

A handful of Maine Senate Democrats joined with Republicans on Thursday to officially kill a measure that would have restored MaineCare coverage to many low-income people who were ineligible due to their immigration status. The vote means that those Mainers will continue to be excluded from the state's Medicaid program simply because of where they’re

AUGUSTA — All but one local legislator voted Thursday to override Gov. Janet Mills' veto of a bill to allow Wabanaki tribes the same benefits of other federally-recognized tribes.

Gov. Janet Mills has vetoed her first bill of the 131st Legislature, a measure to establish visual impact standards for future offshore wind projects, which originated from her own office. In her letter to lawmakers, Mills said she vetoed L.D. 1847 because the Legislature failed to recall the bill at her request after it was amended to require that all projects have project labor agreements, which she does not support. ...But this requirement, she said, was a step too far because more than 90% of workers in Maine’s construction industry – which would compete for th...