A referendum to replace Maine's official flag with a design from more than a hundred years ago was soundly defeated on Election Day. Question 5 sought to restore the 1901 "Pine Tree Flag." But with ...

That played a role in lawmakers’ approval of a bill to let Mainers vote on replacing the current flag. The state’s official ...

Voters on Tuesday rejected a referendum to replace the current state flag with a modern version of the original design, which flew from 1901 to 1909. With 72% of the votes counted Wednesday morning, ...

Maine will not get a new state flag. About 55% of voters, or around 356,000, rejected a proposed redesign of the official ...

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff The long-discussed effort to change Maine’s state flag is heading toward defeat, ...

Oct. 27—In the year since the Lewiston mass shooting, Maine's yellow flag law has been invoked more than 400 times by police seeking to take weapons away from people they believe pose a danger to ...

Oct. 27—In the year since the Lewiston mass shooting, Maine's yellow flag law has been invoked more than 400 times by police seeking to take weapons away from people they believe pose a danger ...

Governor Janet Mills is marking this sad day by directing that all United States and State of Maine flags be lowered to half-staff statewide in remembrance and honor of those lost, injured, and ...