Authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and suspended COVID-19 vaccinations in one state.

A lawsuit seeks to have the state reimbursed for the purchase of 1.8 million fake masks late last year.

The city will consolidate all of its scattered public health and social services programs into a single building at 39 Forest Ave. beginning this summer.

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is concerned that consumers who bought food from Morse's Sauerkraut could get infected.

Pine Island, also known as White’s Island, was illegally taken from the tribe in the mid-19th century. Conservation groups helped get it back.

Retired cattle rancher Dexter Kruger, who is the oldest-ever Australian man, is now writing his autobiography.

The question of how sharks perform long-distance migrations has intrigued researchers for years.

The book was pulled last month amid allegations of sexual assault and harassment against biographer Blake Bailey.

The New York governor was criticized last year for penning a book touting his performance on the virus while the crisis was ongoing.

The couple quarantined together during the pandemic.

The measure has the support of advocates for the disabled, but school administrators and some parents said the bill would prohibit some of the only techniques that work in dangerous situations.

What began with "Thank You" is now a five-year tradition that has many fans.

Under the terms of a consent decree, the Scarborough company also will pay for wetland restoration projects costing about $850,000 at its property on Pleasant Hill Road.

The half-orange lobster is believed to be a one-in-50 million catch.

Gerald Goodale, who was arrested last week in connection with the 1987 killing of Janet Brochu of Winslow, appears by video for an arraignment Monday in Somerset County Superior Court in Skowhegan. The arraignment was postponed because Goodale seeks the representation of a specific lawyer.

The music school has been based at Woodfords Congregational Church for the past 12 years and was able to purchase the Neal Street building thanks to an anonymous donor.

Because of pandemic-related uncertainties and Bowdoin College's schedule, the Brunswick-based theater felt it had to change venues for the shows to go on.

The apology is the latest in a series of ceremonies in which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has sought to make amends for the mistreatment of Indigenous and minority people in Mexico in past centuries.

The U.S. will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks

Mckenzee Wheeler, 13, is believed to be with friends in the area.

Federal authorities are also reportedly looking into whether U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz had sex with the same 17-year-old Greenberg was accused of trafficking.

The two-vehicle crash was reported around 9:30 a.m. Monday in the area of Sebasticook Valley Family Health Care.

The court is taking on a case about whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb, in this case a Mississippi ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The United States signaled it would not pressure the two sides for a cease-fire.

State reports 199 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the third consecutive day with fewer than 200 cases.

The Treasury Department says 39 million families are set to receive monthly child payments of up to $300 per month for each child under 6 and up to $250 per month for children between the ages of 6 and 17.

AT&T will join its massive media operations that include CNN, HBO, TNT and TBS in a $43 billion deal with Discovery, the owner of lifestyle networks including the Food Network and HGTV.

The Legislature has been meeting at the Augusta Civic Center to maintain distancing, but new federal and state guidelines have prompted legislative leaders to begin planning for a return to the Capitol.

Unless more sawmills come on line, the huge jump in prices for building materials likely won't filter down to wood suppliers in Maine.

The neighborhood currently has more than 500 emergency shelter beds and accounts for 20% of police calls and 10% of EMS calls, despite having only 5% of the city's population and 1% of the land area.

Photographers caught up to Portland-area high school students getting their COVID-19 vaccinations this spring. Here’s what they had to say.

The plan is one of the first to be subject to the new affordability requirements established in the Green New Deal for Portland, which was enacted by voters in November.

Marcella Sorg, a research professor at the University of Maine, has been consulting with the state's chief medical examiner since 1977.

With shootings spiking in cities nationwide, there are growing signs that the thirst for change is being blunted by fears of runaway crime.

Not everyone is giving up wearing a face mask despite the latest government guidance that means fully vaccinated Americans can uncover their faces in many cases

Rochelle Walensky defends the quick to decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people.

While officials say the riverside burials have taken place for decades, the sheer numbers in the shadow of the pandemic are focusing more attention on the practice.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says if there is a large surge in cases, reopening plans could be thwarted.

Pre-dawn Israeli airstrikes buried several Palestinian families beneath mounds of rubble, rockets bombarded Tel Aviv and southern Israel, and Arab-Israeli civil unrest has expanded into the West Bank.

Some states are returning the money the Biden administration provided to run tests in schools.

The Brooklyn Center City Council voted for the creation of new divisions that would handle non-moving traffic violations and respond to mental health crises.

The 9-month-old male will be taken to an animal sanctuary.

The storm could destroy roads and cut supply lines to a country that has been ravaged by COVID-19.

Sunday was the second day in a row of infections under 200 as Mainers get ready for relaxed rules on indoor mask-wearing next week.

Among other legislation, the House has passed the Comprehensive Debt Collection Improvement Act, which would enact various measures that regulate debt collection and restrict collection practices.

In rural communities like the Androscoggin County town of Turner, enthusiasm about vaccinations is tepid.

After a year of lost business and disruption, a growing industry that generates $1 billion annually in Maine is ready to get back on its feet.

A food tech company in Wisconsin plans to commercialize cultured lobster meat, but industry leaders in Maine say they don't see it as an immediate threat.

The 12-hour fundraiser generated $106,000 for the South Portland nonprofit.

A just-completed Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course helped Mainers and Mississippians bridge the Great Political Divide.

The Class of 2021 in high schools across Maine will graduate next month in ceremonies that will feel more traditional than they did last year.

Some worry the move might spur more commercial sex in Maine as pimps tell young exploited women 'you won't get in trouble because it's legal in Androscoggin.'

A Bridgton man who fled the scene on foot was found an hour later and faces three charges, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office says.

Two adults and one child were killed Friday afternoon in the fiery accident on Route 1.

The cleric, Ebrahim Raisi, has been linked to mass executions in 1988.

The Black, intellectually disabled half-brothers spent decades behind bars for the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.

The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city and a state senator offer the apologies Saturday at the historically Black college's commencement.

An Israeli airstrike that targeted and destroyed the offices of The Associated Press, broadcaster Al-Jazeera and other media outlets.

The rover will leave the lander after a few days to explore an area known as Utopia Planitia.

First lady Jill Biden says finally going mask-free feels like 'we're moving forward.'