PORTLAND (WGME) – Maine will not get as many crisis receiving centers as Governor Janet Mills set out to create. A crisis receiving center like "The Living Room" in Portland, run by Spurwink, is a building staffed with a team of health workers and volunteers.

The Maine Commission on Public Defense Services says they need more money than what the governor has offered to address a "constitutional crisis" in Maine courts. Mills says they need to change their rules first.

Mills authored the state's novel "yellow flag" law with a prominent gun rights group. She says a red flag proposal that would allow family members to petition a judge to remove a loved one's guns undermines that law.

Democrats’ response this week to President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze all federal grants and loans already approved by Congress was a rare moment of swift, unified and urgent condemnation.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills defended her proposed budget cuts and criticized a proposed 'red flag' law referendum Tuesday night in her annual speech to state lawmakers. Mills used her State of the State address to highlight some of her accomplishments over the past year and discuss key provisions of her budget,

On Tuesday, Gov. Janet Mills outlined her biennial budget to the legislature. The $11.6 billion budget includes a proposal to increase the cigarette tax. On Wednesday, the American Lung Association released its annual “State of Tobacco Control” report which calls on the legislature to ensure the tax remains in the final budget package.

Gov. Janet Mills addressed the state of Maine's economy during her State of the Budget address Tuesday evening.

During the State of the Budget address in Augusta on Tuesday night, Gov. Janet Mills took the opportunity to defend Maine’s unique “yellow flag law” and swiped at a citizen-led effort to bolster the gun safety measure.

This is a developing story and will be updated. Gov. Janet Mills said she is deeply concerned about a memo from President Donald Trump’s administration directing the federal government to temporarily stop payments on loans,

Maine students last year had the lowest average math and reading scores since 1992, the first year the test was administered, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress also known as The Nation's Report Card.

PORTLAND (WGME) – There's a new push to regulate Maine's medical marijuana industry. A bill at the State House would require medical cannabis to be tested, similar to the current standards for recreational marijuana. Gov. Janet Mills addressed this discrepancy during her State of the Budget speech Tuesday night.