Maine

Next month Maine voters will be asked to borrow $106 million for the state's transportation infrastructure, adding to hundreds of millions of dollars in debt the state has taken on in recent years to prop up its underfunded highway budget.

In an aging nation, Texas is showing the strongest demographic trends, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage is pushing the federal government to reverse the decisions of his state's voters and courts, and block a Medicaid expansion plan.

The Maine Supreme Court dealt a blow to Gov. Paul LePage’s efforts to slow voter-approved Medicaid expansion.

Northeast municipal bond issuance sank 11.7% in the first half of 2018 compared to a year earlier, reflecting a national trend driven by federal tax changes.

A negotiated transaction may help Maine limit the yield penalty from Gov. Paul LePage's last-minute cancellation of the sale last month.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage angered many muni market participants last month with a last-second cancellation of already-priced bonds, but is that the end of the story?

Gov. Paul LePage and state lawmakers are at odds about how to fund a voter-approved Medicaid expansion that was supposed to take effect on July 2.

The tax would fund the voter-approved Medicaid expansion that was supposed to take effect July 2.

Gov. Paul LePage's post-pricing intervention to block the closing of $113 million of GO bonds may increase Maine’s future borrowing costs.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage has been ordered by a judge to begin implementation of voter-approved Medicaid expansion after missing the state’s April 3 deadline.

The successful referendum to expand Medicaid eligibility is a credit negative, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Faced with dueling bond proposals, Portland voters overwhelmingly decided to borrow $64.3 million to renovate Longfellow, Lyseth, Presumpscot and Reiche elementary schools in a plan that was backed by a majority of school board and City Council members.

Voters brought change to both the Atlantic City and New Jersey governments in Tuesday's election.

The center received state regulatory approval to advance a $512 million expansion project in Portland.

Penobscot County, Maine, voters will not be asked until 2018 to fund renovations at Bangor's former YMCA building to ease jail overcrowding, according to County Commissioner Peter Baldacci.

Regional School Unit 9 directors voted unanimously Thursday to use the majority of $729,954 in additional state funds to reduce tax assessments and borrowing for capital improvement projects.

Costly mandates and aging infrastructure are among the challenges S&P cited.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed a new budget early Tuesday, ending the state’s first government shutdown in 25 years.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage vowed to reject the legislature's bipartisan budget proposal.