$600 million tax bill passes Kansas Senate, fails in House

Maine governor considers releasing female inmates for tourism jobs

Report: Quarter of Kansas wheat in poor, very poor condition

The Northern Maine exodus continued in 2016, census says

Gianforte defeats Quist to win special election for Congress (Montana)

House passes bill mandating 12-point type on abortion information

Insurer pulls out of Kansas, Missouri health care exchanges

House passes K-12 funding bill despite warnings that court will reject

Mary Mayhew to leave LePage administration

Shuttered Madison mill to be sold piecemeal in June auction

State confiscates homemade national monument sign, warns against other postings

Kansas legislature still struggling over budget 100 days into the session

Bear rips off car bumper in Steamboat Springs to get to doughnuts

Maine to ATV users: Watch it with the giant vehicles

The Latest: Kansas clarifies time of contact with slain boy

ACLU files complaint over Pryor, Reed Point basketball game dispute

Maine Supreme Judicial Court rules ranked-choice voting unconstitutional

Maine resolution would aid scheme to rewrite U.S. Constitution

Internet company owner’s appeal fails to sway Eudora City Commission

Maine Health Insurance Co-Op Emerges From $90 Million Deficit

Kobach to announce plans on governor’s race within 2 months

Clock ticking on Legislature, Brownback's time as governor

Trade pact worries lobster industry

Small-town Kansas hospitals struggle to keep up

Report recommends Kansas residents take advantage of ‘agritourism’

Coast Guard, NWS team up to curb rise in paddler deaths

'Fierce' Big Tobacco lobbyists stopped the smoking tax in Montana

Bill allowing Kansas cities and counties to establish outside drinking areas passes Senate committee

LePage refuses to put up National Monument road signs

State to close Machiasport prison next month

Kobach says he won’t pre-judge voter fraud panel’s findings

House negotiators back away from full repeal of 2012 tax cuts

Haskell suspends track and field program indefinitely

House negotiators withdraw bill repealing Brownback tax policy

WSU economists forecast flat job growth in Kansas in 2017; state-led recession 'potentially around the corner'

Legislative panel unanimously rejects pesticides bill proposed by LePage

LePage’s flood of late bills includes bid to spike Maine Turnpike Authority

DHHS fired a public records coordinator — for releasing a public record

Residents given bear warning: bruins coming for your trash

Kansas Senate committee floats utility tax to fund education

Transcript from Jacob Ewing case highlights close ties in Holton

Collection agencies object to House bill nixing tax exemption

Lewiston liquor bottler warns ending nips sales would have ‘drastic impact’ on company

Neighbors Speak Out Against Loaves and Fishers Project

LePage threatens to veto deposit on ‘nips,’ remove them from Maine stores

Former Kansas Rep. Joshua Svaty to run for governor in 2018

Moose photo season approaches in northern Maine

School district won’t say what it plans to pay Hayden in new  COO position; new questions about timing of superintendent’s resignation