Maine cannot enforce a law voters approved two years ago that limits what foreign governments can spend on campaigning in state and local elections, following a federal appeals court decision Friday.

A Maine voter-approved law barring companies with stakes held by foreign government from spending on state elections runs afoul of the First Amendment, a panel of First Circuit judges held.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed on Friday that the language of an upcoming statewide referendum question on whether to require photo identification in order to vote does not need to change.

Focus segment, Matt Gagnon, the CEO of the Maine Policy Institute, spoke with CBS13 about Senator Susan Collins' re-election bid.

Senator Susan Collins of Maine may now be approaching her toughest re-election battle yet. The moderate Republican cast a critical “no” vote on Donald Trump’s massive domestic policy bill last week—legislation packed with tax cuts and rollbacks to safety net programs.

A panel of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a district court’s preliminary injunction against a Maine ballot initiative that prohibited “foreign governments and ‘foreign government-influenced entit[ies] from contributing or otherwise influencing candidate elections and ballot initiatives.

The Maine Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Secretary of State regarding the wording of the Voter ID citizens' referendum.