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Byline: Ivy Secrest CASPER - As the 2025 legislative session approaches, wildland firefighters are considering how they will advocate for their interests as bills concerning fire safety come before state [...]

Byline: Ivy Secrest CASPER As the 2025 legislative session approaches, wildland firefighters are considering how they will advocate for their interests as bills concerning fire safety come before state lawmakers. [...]

Byline: Ivy Secrest CASPER As the 2025 legislative session approaches, wildland firefighters are considering how they will advocate for their interests as bills concerning fire safety come before state lawmakers. [...]

Byline: Bill O Boyle Oct. 23--WILKES-BARRE -- Sen. Marty Flynn (D, D-22) on Tuesday said the millions of dollars in Local Share Account funded projects will help boost local communities [...]

Byline: Rachel Ohm Aug. 12The Maine State House complex will get a security overhaul by late 2025 after legislative leaders gave approval for the use of additional space for the [...]

Byline: Rachel Ohm Apr. 18AUGUSTA In the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. last year, Maine lawmakers have approved a slate of new gun safety measures that [...]

Byline: Orion Donovan-Smith Mar. 11WASHINGTON Northwest lawmakers are set to play key roles in a bipartisan effort to improve railroad safety in the wake of a high-profile derailment that spewed [...]

Byline: Orion Donovan-Smith May 26WASHINGTON Opponents of restricting firearms often argue that 'the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,' [...]

Byline: Randy Billings May 19AUGUSTA Advocates said Wednesday that they will keep pressuring state officials to reform the practices and culture within the state's beleaguered child protection services, even though [...]

Byline: Rachel Ohm Apr. 2A first-of-its-kind report on the activities of a Maine State Police intelligence agency drew criticism Friday from lawmakers who said the report fell short of expectations [...]

Byline: Joe Wojtas Feb. 9STONINGTON State Rep. Greg Howard, R-Stonington, announced Tuesday that he will be seeking reelection this fall to the 43rd District seat he now holds. Howard, a [...]

Byline: James Mayse Jan. 6Congressman Brett Guthrie said Wednesday that immigration policies that keep migrants outside the United States are needed, because it will help reduce exploitation of migrants by [...]

Byline: Scott Thistle Oct. 24-- Oct. 24--Leaders of the Maine Legislature voted against allowing seven different gun-related bills to be introduced in the next legislative session. The bills, sponsored by [...]

Byline: Caitlin Andrews Oct. 23-- Oct. 23--AUGUSTA, Maine -- A bill that would require natural gas and propane leak detectors in certain buildings following last month's fatal explosion in Farmington [...]

Byline: Virginia Annable April 03--Prison and school safety will be among the items state legislators will focus on in the session that begins May 16, one of this region's legislators [...]

Byline: Jonathan Lai PHILADELPHIA _ New Jersey lawmakers want Rutgers University to study gun violence, its causes, and how to prevent it. Rutgers wants to do the same. So a [...]

Byline: Brian Hallenbeck Feb. 28--State lawmakers will host an informational hearing on trends in gaming. The session is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. Thursday in Room 2C of the [...]

Feb. 22--Indiana's top school official has asked state and local legislative leaders to take action to improve school safety. Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick issued a news release [...]

Byline: Julia Bayly Oct. 19--Maine's landmark food sovereignty law was on the books for less than a month before the federal government informed state officials in July the legislation was [...]

June 12--The LePage administration's Department of Corrections has not given the public good reason to trust it lately. Over the past six months, Maine Department of Corrections Commissioner Joseph Fitzpatrick [...]

Nov. 17--Janesville residents should appreciate that trains rolling through the Five Points intersection on the west edge of downtown don't carry volatile Bakken crude oil from North Dakota and Montana. [...]

Byline: Taylor Luck June 16--AMMAN -- The Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) have strengthened their presence along the Iraqi border on Sunday as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [...]

Byline: Karen Langley Feb. 14--HARRISBURG -- The shooting in Newtown, Conn., was never far from the discussion Wednesday as two panels of state senators heard testimony on school safety from [...]

Byline: Bethany Rodgers Feb. 09--ANNAPOLIS -- Local legislators heard about everything from school security to student drug abuse in a Friday morning briefing from Frederick County's sheriff. Sheriff Chuck Jenkins [...]

Byline: Mary Ann Bragg Jan. 15--SOUTH WELLFLEET -- Four pieces of legislation expected to be filed this week could reduce the threat of public harm on Cape Cod in the [...]

Byline: Robert Long Dec. 22--AUGUSTA, Maine -- The National Rifle Association's call Friday to deploy armed security personnel in U.S. schools diverted the national debate, ignited by last week's Sandy [...]

Byline: Don Hopey Nov. 02--The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection produces incomplete lab reports and uses them to dismiss complaints that Marcellus Shale gas development operations have contaminated residential water [...]

Byline: Don Hopey Nov. 02--The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection produces incomplete lab reports and uses them to dismiss complaints that Marcellus Shale gas development operations have contaminated residential water [...]

Byline: Eric Russell May 21--AUGUSTA, Maine -- Lawmakers on Friday deferred action once again on legislation that would adopt a tiered classification system for registered sex offenders even though the [...]

Byline: Eric Russell April 15--WINDHAM, Maine -- Prisoner No. 69366 at the Maine Correctional Center could be labeled many ways. He's an addict since birth, by his own calculation. He's [...]

Byline: Daniel Malloy Jan. 11--WASHINGTON -- When organizers working for MoveOn.org, a liberal activist group, showed up on the South Hills stomping grounds of Rep. Tim Murphy in 2007 to [...]

Byline: Reid J. Epstein Jan. 11--The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) has some Long Island members of Congress and local police reassessing security for their local political events. Rep. [...]

Byline: Carol Polsky Oct. 20--A week to focus attention on teen safety online, in dating and in daily life, known as 'Teen Personal Safety Awareness Week,' was officially announced Tuesday. [...]

July 23--HARRISBURG -- Patricia Carone started biking 17 years ago. And this week the former Butler County state representative, along with other bicyclists, urged Pennsylvania lawmakers to spend about $2 [...]

Byline: Jared Janes May 14--PHARR -- Gov. Rick Perry said he wants to refrain from quibbling with several members of the state's congressional delegation over the distribution of Homeland Security [...]

Byline: Jared Janes May 8--Livestock ports in Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo will remain closed indefinitely as a security team seeks safer inspection areas for the U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarians. [...]

Byline: Sherry Long Jan. 23--Area lawmakers received 1,324 reasons Friday to ensure actions are taken to make Route 115 safe, after two fatal crashes in the last month. Lisa Catalanello [...]