DURHAM Durham voters Nov. 7 will decide whether to enact a retail marijuana moratorium for six months. Town Administrator Ruth Glaeser said Tuesday the moratorium would cover all retail operations included in the citizens’ initiative voted into law the last election, including manufacturing and cultivation facilities, as well as social clubs. Glaeser said she does […]

ROCKLAND A railroad authority is exploring a pilot program that would bring seasonal Amtrak service to Maine farther north. The pilot program is being explored by the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, which is responsible for handling Maine’s contract with Amtrak’s Downeaster service line. The Bangor Daily News reports the Downeaster line currently begins […]

AUGUSTA Supporters of Maine’s new ranked-choice voting law vowed Tuesday to fight a bill approved by lawmakers to delay, and possibly repeal, the voter-approved system. Maine last year became the first state in the nation to approve statewide ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank candidates from first to last rather than voting for just […]

BUXTON (AP) — Maine’s two U.S. senators say the U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding $100,000 to a Buxton seaweed harvesting and processing company. The senators say the money is going to VitaminSea to fund a concept study for larger scale commercialization of its seaweed products. VitaminSea harvests seaweed to create health products such as […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Groups fighting to give terminally ill people the right to physician assisted suicide in Maine are launching a petition drive to force a statewide referendum on the issue. The Bangor Daily News reports that Westport Island resident Valerie Lynn Lovelace is spearheading a push to enact the Maine Death with Dignity Act. […]

STOCKTON SPRINGS (AP) — A Maine writer has rallied a community to help fix a spelling error on the gravestone of a soldier stationed in the state in the 1800s. Children’s book author Angeli Perrow says she was doing research for a book and found out about Sgt. Leopold Hegyi, an ordinance sergeant who was […]

WOODLAND (AP) — Maine State Police say a driver flipped his pickup truck end over end while trying to find a lighter he had dropped. Police say 29-year-old Ryan Lowell, of Limeston, was driving on Route 161 in Woodland in Aroostook County on Monday night when he became distracted searching for the lighter. Investigators say […]

NEW VINEYARD (AP) — Police say the leg of a 4-yearold child was severed by the bucket of a front-end loader at a gravel pit in Maine. They say the child was with his grandfather, who was working at the family’s gravel pit with the front-end loader at the time. Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols […]

CORINNA (AP) — Maine State Police say a man was bitten by a police dog as he resisted being arrested following a six-hour standoff. Police say 55-year-old Gregory Frank taken into custody Monday at a Corinna home. It wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer. The Portland Press Herald reports that officers responding to […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Federal regulators say they have approved a change to fishing rules that will allow Maine and Massachusetts scallop fishermen opportunities to fish in state waters. An arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says both states qualify for a program called the State Waters Scallop Exemption Program. The program allows some […]