WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Federal Housing Finance Agency issued the following news release: U.S. house prices rose 12.6 percent from the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (FHFA HPI(R)). House prices were up 3.5 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2020. FHFA's seasonally adjusted monthly index for March was up 1.4 percent from February. "House price growth over the prior year clocked in at more than twice the r  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, May 26 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Governor Mills promotes Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan's investment to expand child care capacity, a key complement to the Administration's work to make child care more widely available for working Maine families During a visit to Penobscot Bay YMCA in Rockport today, Governor Janet Mills highlighted the importance of the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan's investment in accessible, affordable, and high-quality child   more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Representative Chellie Pingree (D-ME) sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Acting Regional Administrator Deborah Szaro, who has recently been appointed to lead the agency's new Council on PFAS. In the letter, they highlighted Maine's extensive and unfortunate history with PFAS issues and urged the Council to work with the State of Maine on r  more