SKOWHEGAN (AP) — Police in Maine are investigating after fake Facebook police pages were created that posted fictional crimes. The Portland Press Herald reports Facebook was notified of a fake Skowhegan police Facebook page and a fake Augusta police page reporting crimes that never occurred. The fake sites were removed as of Monday night. Police […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The federal Environmental Protection Agency is presenting the University of Southern Maine with an award for its efforts to reduce food waste. The university says it recovered 5.5 more tons of food in 2015 than it did in the previous year. The school says it looks like this year’s numbers will surpass […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A national organization that advocates for Muslim civil rights is calling for state and federal investigations of vandalism that targeted a halal market in Portland, Maine. Police in Portland were looking on Tuesday for someone suspected of using a baseball bat to smash six windows at Ahram Halal Market in the city. […]

EAST BOOTHBAY (AP) — The executive director of Maine oceanography center Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has died at age 58. Graham Shimmield led Bigelow Laboratory for about nine years. Officials with the lab say he transformed the facility by developing a new marine research and education campus in East Boothbay. Bigelow has almost doubled […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The average retail price of gas has risen 3.2 cents in Maine over the past week. GasBuddy’s daily survey of 1,228 gas outlets in the state says the average price is $2.34 on Tuesday. The national average has also gone up. It is now $2.28, having risen 2.7 cents in the last […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Two groups of University of Southern Maine students are headed for Cuba to learn about the country’s tourism and health care industries. The trip is the first of its kind and involves undergraduate and graduate students in tourism and nursing. The students depart Tuesday. The Portland Press Herald reports the students will […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Several seasons for the hunting of small game animals in Maine are coming to a close for the year. The seasons for raccoons, skunks and opossums all end on Dec. 31. There is also a season for the hunting of gray squirrels that ends on that day. Hunters who pursue gray squirrels […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Office of Tourism, Ski Maine Association and Maine Snowmobile Association are collaborating to provide weekly reports on snow conditions across the state. The reports on visitmaine.com will be posted each Wednesday starting in January. Phil Savignano, senior tourism officer, says it’s important for people to know that there’s always snow […]