Maine News

When a stranger thanks Sgt. Nathaniel Grace of the Maine Army National Guard for his service, he makes it a point to return the gratitude.

They came from the townships and plantations of Concord, Lexington, Highland, Carrying Place and Pleasant Ridge.

The House of Representatives gave initial approval Monday to a proposed constitutional amendment to allow an enhanced early-voting system in Maine, but the vote tally was just short of the two-thirds needed for final passage.

Maj. David Cote hopes to honor the 46 Mainers who have died in the war on terror with engraved rocks atop the state's tallest mountain.

The Maine House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Monday aimed at Maine's so-called "skills gap," developing Maine's workforce with job-training initiatives.

Maine law enforcement officials say they've likely found the remains of a 15-year-old Glenburn girl last seen more than a week ago.

Two brothers who served as altar boys in the 1970s are suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, claiming diocese officials knew the Rev.

"Meth is a drug that has worked it's way across the country. Now we are seeing them in our state." Says Perry Antone, Director of Public Safety for the City of Brewer.

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For the third time in a week, Democrats in the Legislature prevailed Monday on a vote to link an expansion of Medicaid eligibility in Maine to a plan to repay the state's Medicaid debt to its 39 hospitals.

In an hourlong briefing to media Monday, Republican Gov. Paul LePage said his goal, if re-elected in November, would be to eliminate the state's personal income taxes entirely by the end of his second term.

The Maine Department of Labor has added three more sessions of its popular free course that educates employers and the public about regulations governing the workplace.

Lately, the news has highlighted the opportunity to expand health care coverage in Maine.

Social work is defined as the professional activity of helping individuals, groups or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal.

Craig Mott, 36, center, the dock manager at the Friendship Lobster Co-Op, helps unload the day's lobster haul from the Miss Kylie in Friendship Harbor on Wednesday.

In the first six months since the Maine Turnpike Authority increased tolls at various spots along the 106-mile highway, revenue increased by 16 percent even as the number of cars on the turnpike dropped by 4 percent.

Red tide monitoring is going high-tech with a robotic "laboratory in a can." A garbage can-size canister was deployed in late April in the ocean waters off southern Maine to collect and transmit data about toxin-producing algae blooms, known as red tides, that show up in the Gulf of Maine each spring.

Congress is preparing to debate major farm and food policy bills that would likely cut funding to programs used by many low-income Mainers but could separately provide a boost to Maine's thriving local foods movement.

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A new memorial is being erected to honor Maine emergency medical services personnel.