Maine companies are bringing in food waste from out of state as the market for household and commercial composting slows here. Mainers produced 632 tons of food waste a day last year – almost a pound of apple cores, rotten vegetables, spoiled yogurt and meat trimmings a day for every person in the state. Three […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in a week will thrust President Donald Trump’s largely unknown choice for acting Pentagon chief into the military hot seat and shift attention to the search for a permanent replacement who will probably face sharp Capitol Hill questioning about the administration’s murky foreign policy. Trump […]

GOULDSBORO — A Maine sheriff says two people died in a Christmas morning crash on Route 1. Lisa Grant, 57, of Orrington and John Organes, 35, of Sullivan died following a crash Tuesday morning at the intersection of Route 1 and Chicken Mill Road, WMTW-TV reported. Hancock County Sheriff Scott Kane says Grant was pronounced […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A new Maine law calls for state officials to make “reasonable efforts” to keep families together instead of making it a “priority” as required by previous law. Republican Gov. Paul LePage and lawmakers pressed for the bills after the deaths of two girls, 4-year-old Kendall Chick in December in Wiscasset and 10-year-old […]