AUGUSTA (AP) — Lawmakers are rejecting the latest effort to roll back Maine’s minimum wage law. The Maine House voted 81-69 to reject a bill Thursday to reduce annual increases in Maine’s minimum wage. The bill now heads to the Senate. The bill would have capped the increase at $11 per hour instead of $12 […]

LEWISTON (AP) — Maine’s U.S. senators say the federal government is providing more than $200,000 to three Maine counties to help with economic development in mostly rural parts of the state. Republican Sen. Susan Collins and independent Sen. Angus King say the grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration will also help […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Federal fishing regulators say they are conducting a five-year review of threatened and endangered populations of Atlantic sturgeon. Populations of sturgeon are listed as threatened in the Gulf of Maine and endangered in New York Bight, the Chesapeake Bay and off the Carolinas and South Atlantic. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]

SCARBOROUGH (AP) — A Maine superintendent is calling for an end to a student voter registration drive that is part of a campaign to force her ouster. The Portland Press Herald reports that students at Scarborough High School have been trying to get 18-year-old classmates signed up to vote. The drive is part of a campaign to […]

OMAHA, Neb. — Grayson Allen curled to the left side of the lane, jumped and kicked out his left leg a bit as he let fly the shot that would send Duke to the Final Four over two Kansas defenders. With the clock showing less than a second left in regulation, the ball teasingly bounced […]