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A straight-talking survivor, Sally Wigon took over her father's Free Street office supply company more than seven decades ago. And she didn't come all this way just to retire.

The formal affair on Pine Point raised $30,000 for the Michael T. Goulet Traumatic Brain Injury and Epilepsy Foundation.

Across-the-board expenses are rising just as federal pandemic relief is running out. Educators see a 'perfect storm of financial pressures' that will challenge schools for the next two years.

A lawsuit involving more than 2 million pages of evidence will confront jurors, who must decide whether Central Maine Power's parent has vested rights in the project Mainers voted to kill in 2021.

The fight over the proposed New England Clean Energy Connect hydropower transmission line has become a multimillion-dollar industry of its own.

The Hollis Center Public Library, one of two in the York County town, has become a source of friction as officials wrestle with budget concerns.

Robert Porter, 39, of Montville remains at large after escaping custody while being treated at Waldo County General Hospital, police say.

Evan Trieu will represent Maine at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. on May 28 after deftly navigating 19 rounds to win the state competition on Saturday.

Countless Maine families and visitors came out for maple syrup in all its forms during Maine Maple Sunday Weekend. People enjoyed tours of several local sugar houses to view the process and satisfy their sweet tooth.

The Senate Republican leader will spend the next few days working from home.

Crews for the movie sequel have been facing the possibility that filming in New York could be disrupted by real-life protests over the Trump case.

A Florida charter school principal has been forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s 'David' sculpture

Hundreds of women are traveling weekly to the southern tip of Illinois to secure an abortion.

The risk for Biden is less that young left-of-center voters will vote Republican and more that they would sit out an uninspiring election altogether.

Syrian opposition activists say Iran-backed fighters are on alert in eastern Syria, a day after U.S. forces launched retaliatory airstrikes on sites in the war-torn country

Her weeklong trip is the latest and higher profile outreach by the Biden administration as it acts to counter China’s growing influence.

He said the Belarusian president has long asked for the weapons.

Eighty-eight-years after a 13-year-old girl's death by suicide, a sexual health bill in Florida would ban girls from talking or learning about their menstrual cycles in school until the sixth grade.

Police said Saturday that no one appeared to be injured in the incident in Portland's Stroudwater area.

Pharmaceutical companies increasingly have barred executioners from using their drugs, saying they were meant to save lives.

The top commander of Ukraine’s military says his forces are pushing back against Russian troops in the long and grinding battle for the town of Bakhmut.

Preliminary information from storm reports and radar data indicate that it was on the ground for more than an hour and traversed at least 170 miles.

His prophecy that computing capacity would grow exponentially – and with decreasing costs – was dubbed Moore's Law and became the standard that scientists for decades raced successfully to meet.

Republicans had sought $200 million in income tax cuts for low- and middle-income Mainers, a goal one lawmaker said Democrats 'flatly rejected.'

The new law makes clear that adults can be rendered vulnerable to abuse even occasionally, as situations present themselves.

While working on 'Death Wings,' which premieres next week, Bess Welden began holding community workshops for people dealing with loss.

A defiant and incendiary Donald Trump, facing a potential indictment, held the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign Saturday in Waco, Texas, a city made famous by deadly resistance against law enforcement.

In actions and legislation, Republicans are seeking to portray perpetrators of the Capitol riot as victims of zealous federal prosecutors, despite many being convicted of serious crimes.

Union Pacific railroad said the people were found in 2 cars - 12 in a shipping container and 3 in a hopper car - on the train bound for San Antonio.

The cause of the explosion remains under investigation.

The ban of Enes Kanter Freedom lasted 12 days, until TikTok's CEO was being grilled on Capitol Hill.

A 'severe' geomagnetic storm spawned brilliant northern lights as far south as Virginia, North Carolina and Arizona.

Critics call the 50-page report overly vague in its evaluation of problems at the agency and solutions for them.

However, he admits cartels have people inside the federal drug regulatory agency to OK imports of fentanyl precursor chemicals from China.

Asylum seekers without U.S. or Canadian citizenship who are caught within 14 days of crossing anywhere along the 3,145-mile border will be sent back.

As a performer, Darcelle was known for hosting the longest-running drag show on the U.S. West Coast.

The two said they were paid as tipped workers – half the state's minimum wage – even when they did work that earned them no tips.

Shortly after taking over the company last October, Musk said he would expand a preexisting paid version of Twitter to include paying for a blue check mark.

A bill presented Friday would expand a program to cover student loan debt for eligible social workers in hopes of attracting, and keeping, more professionals to help children and adults who are waiting for support.

The poll also finds that those earning at least $100,000 annually are more likely to expect their situation will improve in the year ahead.

For Absolem Cider Co., Run Amok Mead and Sidereal Farm Brewing, digging in and growing their craft beverage businesses is as important as the drinks they are making.

Complaints about the office surfaced when Deputy Fire Marshal Richard McCarthy was nominated to take over the agency last month.

The crusade shows how perceptions of Big Tech have changed among typically pro-business Republicans.

It would require schools to publish course studies and a list of books kept in libraries, as well as affirm parents' ability to meet with educators, speak at school board meetings and examine school budgets.

More than a dozen plaintiffs are opposing the church's motion to forward the cases to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, a move that has put the cases, and the investigative process, on hold.

Levant author Morgan Talty keeps amassing awards for his debut collection of stories.

Staff plan to open the Expo as a temporary shelter as soon as April 10 and operate it until a private effort to open a new shelter on Blueberry Road is complete.

Supporters say axing the fees will make it easier for people to find housing in a tight rental market

Biden and Trudeau were to meet for private talks before the U.S. president was to deliver a speech to the Canadian Parliament.

In addition to the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation, the ex-president faces probes in New York over hush money and in Atlanta over efforts to reverse his election loss in Georgia.

Meanwhile, diplomacy intensifies over the war, which has entered its 12th year and also has drawn in Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

Rwanda says it will release the former hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood film about the 1994 genocide, after he was sentenced to 25 years in prison on terrorism charges in 2021.

The bill banned access to gender-affirming health care, restricted the bathrooms students can use, banned discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity and allowed teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by the pronouns they use.

French President Emmanuel Macron says 'common sense and friendship' led to the cancellation of King Charles III’s upcoming visit due to the anti-government protests in France.

Join us for this virtual conversation with the Oscar winner on Wednesday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m.

The New York grand jury is expected to reconvene early next week in the case of hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Some say a proposed mandate for 30-minute lunch periods would be better for students' nutrition, while others argue that it would create more opportunity for trouble.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said U.S. Central Command forces retaliated with 'precision airstrikes' against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

The Iraqi immigrants operated home health care agencies during the pandemic and were accused of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.