A statewide poll found that a majority of Maine residents don’t believe Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) deserves to be reelected. The University of New Hampshire and the American Association of

In 1958, breaking a string of Republican victories that began during World War I, voters picked Democrat Ed Muskie, a Rumford native coming off a successful stint as governor, as one of the state’s two U.S. senators. Since then, Maine has had had three Democratic senators, three Republican senators and one independent.

More than two-thirds of Mainers don’t think Sen. Susan Collins deserves to be re-elected next year, including most Republicans, according to a survey conducted last week. The data released Thursday by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center comes 18 months before the November 2026 election and a year before campaigns are expected to ramp up.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) said in an interview that aired Friday that she does not plan to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for Senate next year, though she didn’t entirely rule it

On April 10, the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act, a bill that would require all voters to show documentary proof of U.S. citizenship — such as a passport or certified birth certificate — just to register to vote in federal elections.

Jordan Wood is among the first but certainly won't be the last person to announce their candidacy in what is expected to be one of the nation's closest-watched Senate races next year.

FREEDOM, Maine ( BDN) -- The Select Board in the town of Freedom is down to just one member after a star of “The Blair Witch Project” was voted off. Freedom residents voted 122-91 to recall Heather Donahue from the town Select Board on Wednesday.

FREEDOM, Maine (WGME) -- A former Hollywood star turned Select Board member is at risk of getting the boot by local residents. Heather Donahue is best known for her role as Rei in the 1999 horror film "The Blair Witch Project.” She is now a member of the Select Board for the town of Freedom.

Like Nebraska, Maine divides its four Electoral College votes between its two congressional districts, often splitting the vote in presidential elections. In 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump peeled away the largely rural 2nd ...

Heather Donahue of "Blair Witch" fame quit acting long ago, moved to a small town, and was elected to the select board. Now she's at the center of a firestorm over a rural road's access.

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next pope. These candidates are known as “papabile,” an unofficial Italian word that would translate literally as "popeable," or someone who has what are regarded to be the qualities to be pope.