Maine News Updates

Gov. John Baldacci's office today announced an executive order to cut $63 million from the state budget.

AUGUSTA  — With a $300-to-$400 million budget hole looming, Gov. John Baldacci is planning to order Maine state departments to curtail spending.

AUGUSTA  — Safety officials say Maine's highway death toll for the year remains below 2008, which was the safest year on the state's roads since 1959.

PORTLAND -- Maine's highest court has overturned a lower court judge's ruling that a state law that authorized game wardens to stop all-terrain vehicle operators without cause was unconstitutional.

BOSTON -- A federal agency says 136 people died in New England from work-related injuries last year, 27 fewer than in the previous year and the lowest number since it began compiling the statistics

 State ethics commission staff will soon begin an investigation into the fundraising practices of a group that contributed at least $1.6 million to defeat gay marriage in Maine.

At least three candidates for governor are worried the state’s public financing system will run out of money in the midst of their campaigns.