Maine News

Gov. John Baldacci ordered Maine state departments Friday to curtail spending by $63 million to make sure the budget is balanced.

Fire investigators are trying to determine if there's a connection between a fire that destroyed a house in Medway and three other intentionally set fires in the northern Maine town.

Leigh Saufley, Maine's chief justice says the judicial branch in the state is already bare bones, and it's about to get worse.

Ryan "Spose" Peters hasn't been shot nine times and doesn't boast about his street rep.

Maine utility regulators have set dates for another round of public hearings on Central Maine Power's $1.5 billion plan to expand its transmission network.

GREENWOOD, Maine a ' A volunteer firefighter has been charged with arson in connection with overnight fires that destroyed two vacant houses in western Maine.

Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine in Orono, talks to Sjur Bratland , asset manager, and Knut Erik Steen , technical manager, both with Hywind from the Norwegian company Statoil, about research conducted at the facility.

A 19-year-old Augusta man wants to withdraw his guilty pleas in a vicious machete attack on a father and daughter in their rural Pittston home.

How safe are Mainers when it comes to gun crime in their home state? Very safe, according to studies and crime statistics compilations.

The race for governor is even more crowded. John Richardson, the commissioner of the state Department of Economic and Community Development and former Speaker of the House, announced his candidacy Monday.

A year ago the Maine Community Foundation, one of the state's largest philanthropic enterprises, was preparing for hard times ahead.

Mort and Jean Strom of Camden enjoy breakfast at Maine Gold's Sugar House Cafe last weekend.

John Baldacci next year. The crowded mix of candidates includes seasoned State House insiders, business leaders who've been hitting the pavement hard for months, and candidates to match every ideological stripe.

Hundreds of Maine Boy Scouts are trying to keep Camp Gustin in Sabattus from being sold.

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With 87 percent of precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes had 53 percent of the vote in a referendum that asked Maine voters whether they wanted to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage that had passed the Legislature and was signed by Democratic Gov.

ST. LOUIS a ' The Archdiocese of St. Louis says Archbishop Robert Carlson used $10,000 in discretionary funds to support the successful effort to prevent legalization of gay marriage in Maine.

Korean War veteran Clayton Lancaster, 78 of Dexter walks back to his car after visiting the Togus Mobile Healthcare Clinic for some lab work in Dover-Foxcroft Wednesday.

Down a rural road where wood smoke spirals from chimneys in the settling twilight, a five-acre lot thick with spruce trees is the unlikely site of a dream deferred.

Some folks looking to support the local economy and get some shopping done spent time at the Bangor Civic Center.