The government shutdown began at midnight on Oct. 1 as Democrats and Republicans appeared to be nowhere close to reaching a ...

Maine's Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is expected to announce a bid for the U.S. Senate with a challenge to Republican Sen.

The government shutdown entered its 12th day on Sunday as Republicans and Democrats remain at an impasse over a spending plan ...

The Trump administration announced Friday it had begun mass layoffs of federal employees, a step not taken during previous ...

House members' absence during the government shutdown is creating a political dilemma for Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and is testing his leadership.

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.* With three weeks remaining before Election Day ...

If there’s one candidate who embodies the disparate trends creating this crop of Democratic insurgents, it’s Graham Platner.

A bill in the works has support from Maine fishermen and lobbyists for big-money species such as tuna in Hawaiʻi and crab in ...

One of the US.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation is the subject of an effort for cutbacks ...

The 250-plus emergency bills submitted range from making the potato the state vegetable to addressing federal health care cuts.

A federal judge in Boston had some pointed words for Donald Trump as he issued one of the dozens of decisions by courts in ...