State health officials say nearly 170,000 people in Maine, which is nearly 12.5% of the state's population, receive SNAP ...

Thousands of state employees and programs relied on by tens of thousands of Mainers are at risk if the federal government ...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.) is getting more air support during the government shutdown, with a new $250,000 digital ad buy ...

The layoffs would be done according to seniority, so federally funded employees could bump less senior workers whose jobs are ...

A new coalition of food security advocates and organizations sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins Wednesday evening ...

Maine's commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services told lawmakers SNAP benefits could be delayed for roughly ...

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Most federal employees received a partial paycheck last week for days worked before the shutdown began. But with no apparent ...

There are thousands of federal workers in Maine, and many have received the last paycheck they will see until the government ...

The U.S. Senate failed for the 12th time on Wednesday to approve a bill to fund the government, meaning the government ...

A group digging into government spending obtained pension data from every state where it’s legal, and they’ve found that ...