BANGOR (AP) — Legislators serving on a new committee looking for ways to strengthen the state’s work force and improve the state economy are visiting Bangor and Orono. Members of the Workforce and Economic Future Committee are touring the University of Maine’s Advance Manufacturing Center in Orono today as it focuses on work force development. […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Energy officials say the average cash price for heating oil has grown 2 cents from last week’s price survey to $3.76 per gallon. The weekly survey by the governor’s energy office on Tuesday also showed the average kerosene price jumped 10 cents to $4.24 per gallon. Propane prices fell 1 cent from […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maj. Gregory Sanborn, the secondin command of the Maine Warden Service, has died at age 47 after battling cancer for more than a year. Gov. Paul LePage called the 23-year veteran of the warden service “a true ambassador of our great outdoors and our entire state.” The Fryeburg native died Tuesday in […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s highest court has upheld a lower-court ruling that exempts certain properties at Hebron Academy from property taxes even though they’re rented for outside use. The town of Hebron had appealed a Superior Court judgment that the private boarding school in Hebron was a “literary and scientific” institution and that most of […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Public health workers are handing out and putting up fliers warning drug users of potentially deadly heroin on Portland’s streets. The city’s public health division has received tips about two types of heroin circulating the city that are highly potent and carry a high risk of overdose. Police last week issued a […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A landlord has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of killing two tenants inside their Biddeford apartment. Police say James Pak, 74, shot the two tenants on Dec. 29 after arguing with them about late rent, snow shoveling and parking. He’s been indicted on two counts of murder in the […]