WATERBORO — Voters approved a $37.6 million budget to operate Regional School Unit 57 for the fiscal year that begins July 1, reducing by $109,000 the original proposal passed by the school board. The spending plan approved by the 177 voters at the three-hour district budget meeting Tuesday night means the budget is one step […]

BOSTON — As the state Senate begins debate Wednesday on a more than $36 billion state budget, medical marijuana advocates are objecting to proposed amendments they say will impose new taxes on low-income, chronically ill patients and further delay opening of state-licensed dispensaries. Matthew Allen, executive director of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, said his […]

Town crews raise the State of Maine, American and Canadian flags in the Old Orchard Beach town square Tuesday, in preparation for the Memorial Day holiday and opening of the summer season.

SEOUL, South Korea — When a South Korean ferry sank with hundreds trapped inside last month, the whole world knew about it. But in North Korea, there was utter silence about the collapse of a 23-story apartment building for five days, until state media issued a rare apology. The North is not a black hole […]