All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2021 // The Biden administration supported in court filings this week a South Portland air quality ordinance that has effectively prohibited the import of crude oil via a Canadian pipeline.The U.S. Department of Justice filed a...
Jun 16 2021 // Maine lawmakers want to strengthen lead testing in school drinking water. The Maine Legislature has been considering a proposal to decrease the standard for lead in drinking water from 15 parts per billion to four parts...
May 26 2021 // A state lawmaker from Maine is facing a lawsuit from neighbors who say she and her husband cut down thousands of trees from their property to build a barn and horse paddock. Sasha and Christopher Malone filed the lawsuit...
May 12 2021 // The owner of a paper mill in Maine that was the site of an explosion last year has filed a lawsuit against a company that was responsible for inspection and maintenance. One of the facility’s pulp digesters ruptured...
May 6 2021 // Maine is one of the latest states to enact its own version of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model data security law, signing the Maine Insurance Data Security Act into law on March 17.The NAIC...
Apr 21 2021 // The mother of a transgender teenager who died by suicide at a youth detention center in Maine has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the state.Michelle Knowles, of North Vassalboro, filed the lawsuit Tuesday against...
Apr 21 2021 // A Maine man accused of setting fire to a Massachusetts church with a predominantly Black congregation been charged with hate crime offenses, federal prosecutors said.Dushko Vulchev is charged in federal court with four...
Apr 9 2021 // A judge in Maine has ruled that a woman who has impaired vision can go ahead with a claim against Uber, which she has said discriminated against her by refusing to allow her guide dog into a vehicle.The lawsuit stretches...
Apr 7 2021 // A Waterville, Maine, auto body manufacturing plant is facing nearly $400,000 in proposed fines for unaddressed fall and noise hazards that placed its employees at risk.The Shyft Group Duramag LLC – formerly F3 MFG Inc....
Mar 25 2021 // A settlement that is pending approval from a federal judge would require the former owner of a shuttered chemical plant in Maine to spend more than $180 million to clean up mercury contamination.The settlement concerns the...
Mar 12 2021 // The Machinists Union is providing more than $61,000 to help a shipbuilder recover from a gruesome injury at Bath Iron Works.Garrett Bailey was injured on Jan. 23, and the contributions came from a collection from...
Mar 11 2021 // A Maine man is suing a paper mill company that operates in the state about levels of long-lasting chemicals in wells and elsewhere.Nathan Saunders of Fairfield filed the lawsuit Friday against Boston-based Sappi North...
Mar 5 2021 // A woman was critically injured when a tree knocked down by powerful gusts fell on the vehicle, driving a tree limb through the windshield and dashboard and impaling her, officials said.Theresa Roy, 79, was critically...
Jan 29 2021 // A Maine judge will hear arguments in a property boundary dispute that resulted in a Dover-Foxcroft garage being cut in half last year.Gabriel Brawn removed half of the building that he believed was on his land using a...
Jan 20 2021 // A woman who has Tourette’s syndrome may proceed with her lawsuit against a surgeon who declined to repair her injured shoulder because of her disability, the state Supreme Court ruled.The doctor performed surgery on...
Jan 13 2021 // The owner of a Maine boat carrying four fishermen that sank off Cape Cod last fall has asked a court to declare it is not at fault.The owner of the 82-foot Emmy Rose wants a Maine federal court judge to declare that it is...
Jan 12 2021 // A Maine-based smoked salmon producer is defending itself against claims that its products are not sustainably produced.A New York resident alleged in a lawsuit that Ducktrap River of Maine does not use sustainable...
Jan 4 2021 // An aquaculture worker who got hurt tending to salmon raised in offshore pens is covered under state law, but not under the federal law that defines some of the rights for mariners, Maine’s supreme court ruled.The...
Dec 16 2020 // Curley Associates, an insurance agency based in Sanford, Maine, has acquired Robert L. Haley Agency Inc. of Gray, Maine. The acquisition was effective October 16, 2020.According to Curley, the Gray location will remain...
Nov 20 2020 // Police in Maine said a man died in a workplace accident in which a scissor lift he was using tipped over at a job site. The accident killed James Thompson, 58, of Yarmouth, police said. Thompson was painting the inside of...