Maine News

Cindy Small of Wiscasset displays some military dog tags that hang on the Maine Battlefield Cross Memorial at the State House on Friday, May 24, 2013.

Local singers, songwriters and one comedian proved they have stage presence at the third annual Midcoast Maine Has Talent variety show held May 23 at The Strand Theatre in Rockland.

AUGUSTA Tuition will increase slightly this fall at the state's seven community colleges, school officials announced Friday.

Atlantic puffins are among the state's most popular birds, but relatively few Mainers have actually seen them up close.

Allagash Brewing Company brewer and founder Rob Tod tastes an experimental beer in a new storage and aging facility next door to the main building in Portland on Wednesday.

On May 99, the 126th Maine Legislature hosted Welcome Back Day to honor those individuals who have served as state representatives and state senators in the past decades.

As Mainers head to camps, pull out their grills, and put boats in the water for the first time this season, health officials of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention have issued an advisory to raise awareness of the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning and how best to prevent it.

AUGUSTA, Maine - Democratic legislative leaders said Thursday that Republican Gov.

A Lisbon man who used his own child's Social Security number in a scheme to illegally receive welfare benefits has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Maine Prep begins its summer season of SAT prep classes with four July-only classes statewide.

Two news organizations on Thursday challenged a judge's decision to keep the public from learning the details of a case against a man charged with killing a 15-year-old girl.

Marguerite Marston, 59, of Bridgton was treated for leukemia through a partnership between Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap Encourages Maine Businesses to Accept Driver's Licenses/IDs with Military Service Designation as Proof of Status for Military/Veteran Discounts AUGUSTA, Maine – This Memorial Day Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap would like to remind Mainers about the new Military Service Designation available for Maine ... (more)

The Maine Affiliate of Susan G. Komen has announced its 2013 grantees, awarding nearly $265,000 to eight Maine programs.

A group of southern Maine police chiefs gathered Tuesday morning to oppose a bill that would allow most Mainers to carry concealed weapons without filing for a permit.

Did the company's radio spots give the impression its the cheapest option? The company says it changed those ads when its model changed.

There's a buzz in Penobscot County as the number of new beekeepers is on the rise.

In a preview of his Maine forecast for the New England Economic Partnership conference in Boston on Thursday, Charlie Colgan said that he revised his estimate for the end of recession in Maine to late 2016.

After a four-hour debate Tuesday, the House of Representatives approved a bill that would pay off Maine's $484 million debt to the state's hospitals, agreeing to go along with a Democrat-backed amendment calling for the state to accept federal money to expand Medicaid to roughly 70,000 people.

All of Maine's acute-care hospitals have agreed to participate in statewide network that allows health care providers to share and view patients' health records electronically.