The Maine Gun Safety Coalition is working to collect signatures to put an extreme risk protection order, or a red flag law, ...

The Gun Safety Coalition will still have to collect more signatures to ensure the proposal can get on the ballot. The number ...

If ultimately successful, Maine would join 21 other states and Washington ... compared to only being used 34 times in the ...

This year, the Maine referendum election ballot featured five key questions addressing a range of issues, from the proposed redesign of the state’s official flag to the allocation of funds through ...

The Illinois Flag Commission has a big task ahead after receiving nearly 5,000 proposed designs for a new state flag. By the end of the year, the commission led by Democratic Secretary of State ...

Maine will not get a new state flag. About 55% of voters, or around 356,000, rejected a proposed redesign of the official flag with 80% of the votes counted at 1 p.m. Wednesday. The Associated Press ...

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 ...

Members of the Maine Gun Safety Coalition argue a red flag law could've prevented the Lewiston mass shooting, which left 18 ...

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine rejected an effort to change the state flag in Tuesday’s election, capping a ...

The beloved pine tree design will not return to its former status as the official state flag. Maine voters decided Tuesday ...

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, ...