Governor-elect Bob Ferguson intends to trim $4.4 billion from the state budget, but listed universal free lunches for ...

Good morning, Boston. Here are the five things you need to know in local business news to start your busy Friday — and the answer to the housing-affordability crisis.

The new year has repeatedly brought glad tidings to TJ and Victoria Neville of Hampton, most recently the birth of their ...

Catholic parents who live in rural Maine — far from any public schools — are challenging a state law that excludes most faith-based schools from Maine’s rural tuition assistance program.

Two religious schools in Maine made their case to receive public money, despite the state’s anti-discrimination law, during oral arguments Tuesday in front of the United States 1st Circuit Court ...

However, little changed because the Maine Legislature had amended the anti-discrimination law before the ruling to include religious schools. That law, called the Maine Human Rights Act ...

A panel of First Circuit judges appeared troubled by Maine’s bid to apply educational and employment antidiscrimination laws to religious schools receiving public funding during oral arguments Tuesday ...

Students exit St. Dominic Academy in Auburn, Maine. The school is one of two that is appealing a federal court decision that requires religious institutions to adhere to the state’s nondiscrimination ...

A new statute designed as an end-run around the Supreme Court places a “sword of Damocles” over religious education, one ...