A Maine law that went into effect in July created a bipartisan task force. It's charged with diagnosing problems lying in ...

Several new state laws cut the red tape on new housing construction, create a fund for affordable housing and bar ...

The Maine Legislature approved seven studies on topics including property taxes, health care, higher education and housing production. Some of these proposals initially started out as bills to make ...

Thursday’s hearing at the U.S. District Court in Boston is over the lawsuit Libby filed in March in response to the censure, and is against Democratic House Speaker Ryan Fecteau and House clerk ...

According to legal documents Libby later filed, Rep. Ryan Fecteau (D–Biddeford)—the Speaker of the Maine House—then found her in violation of a House rule that any member who "is guilty of a ...

Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau, D-Biddeford, put forward a bill that would lift certain barriers in opening childcare facilities.

State Rep. Laurel Libby (R) does not challenge the verbal censure itself but instead asks the justices for an emergency injunction blocking Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau’s (D) declaration ...

In February, Ms. Libby posted a photo on X that identified a trans athlete who had won the state girls’ championship for pole vaulting. She posted a follow-up saying the student had competed in the ...

Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau emailed and called Libby on Feb. 18, asking her to take the post down. “In addition to risking the young person’s safety, your post violates one of the long ...

Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau and Maine's Democrat majority censured Libby for a social media post earlier this year, in which she identified a trans athlete who had switched from competing ...

In the post, Libby mentioned the transgender athlete’s name and included a photo of her face, which Speaker Ryan Fecteau had said could cause safety concerns. Libby refused, despite commenters on the ...

Fecteau highlighted a new law introduced by Rep. Amy Roeder (D-Bangor), LD 427, that reduces the minimum parking requirements to one space per dwelling unit.