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Mills signed an executive order on Tuesday directing state agencies to refuse to participate with another state's investigation into people, groups or health care providers over abortion care delivered in Maine.

The Natural Resources Defense Council and other conservation groups are challenging a seafood watchdog's recertification of the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery as a sustainable resource.

The award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will fund the New England Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases.

It's like the plot of a short story — after decades of aging, Maine was the only state in the country that got younger last year.

A new, summer weekend train service from New York City to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is about to take its inaugural run.

The court decided that the federal Environmental Protection Agency lacks the authority to strictly regulate carbon emissions from power plants.

"There's a war, and it's between fossil fuel and saving the planet," says Tony Buxton, a Maine attorney who represents industrial energy consumers such as paper mills and ski areas. "And I'm saying that as a representative of business, not as a representative of some left-wing organization. ... We need to get to work on this."

Sen. Patrick Leahy. Leahy is recovering in a Washington area hospital after surgery to repair a broken hip, according to a statement from his office. Leahy fell at his house in Virginia Wednesday night.

The law enforcement effort comes as opioid overdose rates are again spiking in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont.

The executive director of Maine's passenger rail authority, Patricia Quinn, says June will likely be the best month for ridership since the start of the pandemic.