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The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles will now allow residents to designate their gender as “non-binary” on driver’s licenses, to the Maine secretary of state’s office.

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has decided to delay changes for six months that addiction treatment agencies had said would threaten their operations in the middle of an opioid crisis.

It’s early June, but the last few days have felt more like winter than summer as unseasonably cool temperatures have rolled across the state.

In a town that sits as the gateway to some of the state’s moose-iest spots, more than 1,600 people gathered at the Skowhegan Fairgrounds on Saturday for what has become one of Maine’s can’t-miss spring events.

When the new University of Maine Cooperative Extension Diagnostic and Research Laboratory in Orono opens later this month, it will be among the most biosecure, technologically cutting edge and scientifically advanced laboratories in the state.

Federal officials have issued new guidance for tractor trailer drivers as part of a rule governing the transportation of agricultural products across the nation.

Editor’s note: This is the second story in a series on the weak spots in Maine’s care for children with mental health challenges.