The Maine Legislature is, for the second time in three years, considering a bill that would change the state flag to the increasingly popular "pine tree and North Star" version. The bill left the ...

AUGUSTA — A legislative committee voted Monday to kill a bill that would have changed the Maine state flag to an earlier and more simplistic 1901 design.

The bill would replace the current flag with the state flag used from 1901 to 1909, which features a pine tree in the center of a white field and a blue star in the upper left corner. Sign in or ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Chris Korzen tells a story about a controversy that has smoldered in Maine for three decades and that now is flaring again, about whether to change the official state flag.

AUGUSTA — A bill proposing to change Maine’s general issue license plates from the chickadee to the 1901 Maine State Flag is scheduled for a public hearing at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) — The official state flag of Maine will not be changing. House lawmakers rejected LD 115 on Wednesday by a vote of 91 to 53. The bill would have replaced the current flag ...