The referendum will allow Maine residents to vote on keeping in place the state’s current flag or replacing it with a new design picked from the contest. Maine’s current flag design features ...

A new poll spells potentially bad news for plans to change the Maine state flag. Question 5 on the state ballot asks Mainers ...

"But they don't need to be doing that." But Gov. Janet Mills has said she supports the current yellow flag system. Maine's gun rights groups have also opposed red flag law proposals, arguing that ...

Use of Maine’s yellow flag law has grown dramatically since the Lewiston mass shootings: law enforcement agencies completed more than 500 weapons restriction orders in the past 14 months ...

Mills authored the state's novel "yellow flag" law with a prominent gun rights group. She says a red flag proposal that would ...

Gun safety advocates turned in petitions Thursday to force a November referendum on a red flag law that would make it easier for police to remove weapons from people deemed a threat to themselves or ...

Tuesday night in her “State of the Budget” address, Gov. Janet Mills made a point of saying that she’s opposing the effort to ...

Jan. 13—Maine's utilization of its unique yellow flag law spiked in the final months of 2024 as police agencies sought to remove weapons from people who pose a danger. Though authorities used it ...