The Pine Tree Flag was the original state flag, adopted in 1901 before being replaced by the current flag in 1909. In the new ...

Mainers will not see a new — or rather, the old — state flag waving at the state house, as Question 5, An Act to Restore the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Officials say the measure with the most votes would prevail if both pass. Maine’s State Flag In Maine, ballot Question 5 asks ...

U.S. Rep Jared Golden, D-Maine, who was born in Lewiston, renounced his opposition to an assault weapons ban a day after the ...

Before the rampage, Maine’s yellow flag law had been used only 81 times in the 40 months after taking effect in July 2020, or ...

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 themselves ...

The chosen flag will signify a consensus among the population of Maine. Whether old or new, the flag will have been chosen by the people of today for the first time in over a century.

While the presidential race is consuming much of the political oxygen nationally, Maine has a closely watched congressional ...