Mainers are bracing themselves for a big change: the state license plate featuring a chickadee is being replaced by a pine tree − a reference to an old flag from 1901 that's making a popular ...

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Mainers are going to decide in November whether to adopt a new flag, one that tracks closely with the state's first flag. The design by contest winner Adam Lemire of Gardiner features a soaring pine ...

This image was chosen as the model design for a potential new Maine state flag. Maine voters will decide in November whether to adopt it as the official flag. Image courtesy of the Maine Department of ...

Mainers voted Tuesday on whether to change the state flag to this version designed by a Gardiner architect. Credit: Courtesy of the Maine secretary of state's office Maine rejected an effort to change ...