Advocates said they could meet only a fraction of the demand for emergency housing, with only 14 percent of eligible clients receiving shelter statewide. A low-income housing development in Portland.

Roughly 50 religious leaders and advocates testified on bills restricting bathroom use and participation in women’s sports this spring.

Two major factors are driving up insurance rates in Maine: rising costs of prescription drugs and little competition in Maine's market.

The presence of sharks are an indicator of an ecosystem’s good health, according to a shark biologist.

Sean Scott is a religion, politics and society reporter for The Maine Monitor, covering how religious institutions impact personal and political decision making across the state.

Advocates and developers warn that the law threatens to put Maine’s growing renewable energy sector on ice.

Paramedic Mark Tweedy returns the Portland Fire’s mobile medical outreach van to the department’s central station on Congress Street on July 8, 2025. Tweedy goes out on the MMO van five days a week to ...

Joan Ferrini-Mundy, the university’s president, compared the funding disruptions to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emily Bader is a health care and general assignment reporter for The Maine Monitor where she covers substance use, mental health and access to care. She is particularly interested in exploring how ...

With rising call volumes and a firefighter shortage at fire departments statewide, officials sound the alarm for solutions.

Many of the Maine woods have been cut so hard that reshaping them for carbon storage will be neither quick nor easy.

Nearly two years after the Legislature began debating whether storing energy — in batteries, or reservoirs, or fuel cells — should be considered generation or distribution and whether utility ...