The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to reach an agreement on two competing plans to tackle rising health insurance costs. Sen.

Nancy Hunt arrived at an emergency room from a Genesis HealthCare nursing home in Pennsylvania in such dreadful shape, ...

Despite a rollback of federal climate policies this year, Maine lawmakers continued to press ahead with the state’s clean ...

One thing Gov. Janet Mills has done well during her tenure is to budget in a way that has left us with surplus cash. This ...

The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment ...

Author: Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez for KFF Health News. Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, correspondent, works for the KFF Health News ...

Maine officials warn a new federal directive will increase homelessness in the state. The Trump administration is cutting funding for the Continuum of Care program, which helps move some of the most ...

The number of Medicare patients in Maine who received buprenorphine treatment for their addiction to opioids increased about 70 percent between 2019 and 2023. In this photo, a patient waits for ...

Author: Lauren Sausser for KFF Health News. Lauren Sausser, South Carolina correspondent, covers health care across the South ...

Thousands of Mainers gathered for the “No Kings” protest in Portland on June 14, 2025. Photo courtesy of Javier Oliver. A new report from Defend America Action warns that Pres. Donald Trump’s economic ...

Maine State House in Augusta. Photo by Channa Steinmetz. I don’t agree with uber right-wing former GOP state Rep. Larry Lockman about much. But sometimes, unlikely things happen. Like recently, when ...

Retired nurse Jonathan Haines (left) and other Mainers protest outside of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ Biddeford office on Tuesday, Nov. 20 to urge Collins to put the needs of everyday Mainers ahead of ...