Maine News

Relentless rain and cool weather since early June have sent visitors scrambling home and washed away millions of tourism dollars across the Northeast.

The coast of Maine is a long way from Mexico, but to drug cartels it's an emerging market for heroin and cocaine.

A bad recession is like these June rains. Neither can last forever. During this bad economic weather, Maine should prepare for the coming recovery by implementing tax reform under the law that takes effect this January.

The Sun Journal's editor knew he was taking a risk when the newspaper launched a penny-pinching series with a bold promise: Readers who didn't save money from the tips over a six-month period could demand a $97 newspaper subscription refund.

Officials have shut down virtually the entire Maine coast to clam digging because of a widespread outbreak of red tide.

A Looking to overturn a bill signed by Governor John Baldacci in May approving same sex marriage, Stand For Marriage Maine announced today that they have collected more than the 55,087 signatures needed to place a People's Veto on the November ballot and are collecting additional signatures as insurance to meet the deadline to qualify the measure ...

Maine drug agents say they have broken up drug rings based in New York and Massachusetts after arresting 14 people in Maine.

Senate Appropriations Committee allots $41 million for the fiscal year 2010 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations budget.

Foes of gay marriage said Wednesday that they have gathered enough signatures to force a statewide vote on the law allowing same-sex couples to wed.

A ruling from the Maine Supreme Judicial Court opens the door to lawsuits against the Catholic diocese in cases where victims claim the church knew that a priest had a history of molestation.

I just completed my first year of college. Laura Wing After rolling countless suitcases and a laundry cart packed with bags across 5th Avenue , I crossed the busy cab-filled street for the last time in a few months.

Controversy surrounds the finding by the Maine Human Rights Commission that a transgendered child should have been allowed to use the girls' bathroom because she identifies as female.

IXFIELD, Maine - A 911 call from a cell phone about a house fire in Dixfield, Maine, was routed to the wrong county, costing firefighters valuable time.

Rebecca Peatman had been down this parade route a time or two before, just never as grand marshal.

AUGUSTA, Maine a ' Gov. John Baldacci said Saturday the words of the Declaration of Independence are as meaningful today as they were when they were written more than 200 years ago.

The Maine Warden Service is investigating an all-terrain vehicle accident in Standish that killed a 79-year-old Gorham man.

Loren Coleman on July 3rd, 2009 The Maine Warden Service is looking into two sightings of a giant snake in the Rumford canal system.

Maine's sand beaches bring about $500 million of new money into the state each year and support some 8,000 jobs, but the beach economy could be put in jeopardy because of the rising sea level.

On the day Americans celebrate the land of the free, a Maine man wants governors to feel free to live off the land.

Bill Green has been travelling the back roads and byways of Maine for NEWS CENTER for more than 25 years.