Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency has erased dozens of public health and environmental protections.

The Municipal Review Committee, which represents the solid waste interests of 115 Maine municipalities, held a virtual town hall meeting Tuesday to announce Delta Thermo Energy Inc. as the prospective buyer for the Hampden plant.

City Hall announced the closed-door session after the Press Herald reported that Portland's program is the only one in Maine to disregard public health guidelines and keep strict rules for syringe exchanges in place during the pandemic.

The president also has been using his final days in office to issue steady a stream of executive orders as he tries to lock in initiatives that President-elect Joe Biden is likely to ignore.

U.S. defense officials have been worried about a potential insider attack or other threat from service members following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 by Trump supporters that shocked the nation.

On his way out the door, Pompeo made the determination just 24 hours before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

The nation’s leading standardized testing organization also said it was developing a more flexible SAT that would be digital.

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take part in an evening ceremony at the Reflecting Pool to honor the nearly 400,000 American lives lost to COVID-19.

Republican senators, in particular, face a daunting choice of whether to convict Donald Trump of inciting the insurrection, the first impeachment trial of a president no longer in office.

Lawmakers are urging Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck to put Capitol Police Chief Russell Gauvin on administrative leave after a series of social media posts.

Join us Friday, March 12 at 1:00 p.m. when Lisa DeSisto sits down with Joan Ferrini-Mundy of University of Maine.

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.

Overshadowing everything at the very start is Biden's effort to win congressional approval of a $1.9 trillion plan to combat the coronavirus and the economic misery it has caused.

The problem happened during packaging or shipping, but replacement doses were on the way to Maine, says Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC.

The document warned that 'lone wolves' and QAnon conspiracy theorists, some of whom participated in the violent siege on the Capitol , have indicated that they plan to come to Washington.

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Riley June Williams was arrested Monday in her home state of Pennsylvania, the Justice Department said late Monday.

On average, the state has had about 500 deaths and 40,000 new cases daily for the past two weeks.

At stake in several states including Maine are the rules governing school voucher programs and whether some students and certain types of private schools can be excluded from the programs.

With overdose deaths on record pace during the pandemic, city officials are urged to take advantage of state waivers intended to ensure that drug users have access to clean needles and overdose reversal drugs.

Three extremist groups have drawn the most attention from the feds as they seek to avoid inauguration violence: the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters.

Criticized for acceding to President Trump's demand for citizenship information at the expense of data quality, Steven Dillingham says he will resign Wednesday.

Some people think they have too much home equity or too much savings to qualify.

The online ceremony included prerecorded remarks by President-elect Joe Biden.

The proposal, expected to be sent to Congress on Inauguration Day, also includes addressing the root causes of migration from Central America.

‘You would not believe the lack of progress,’ he says in the message. ‘It makes me physically sick.’

One poor country has so far just given out 25 doses, he says.

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris pitch in on Martin Luther King Jr. Day service projects.

Interviews with members of the U.S. Capitol Police show just how quickly the command structure collapsed on Jan. 6.

The overall U.S. toll barrels toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold.

The man, who is a member of 'Texas Freedom Force,' a militia extremist group, remained in federal custody on Monday.

Some answers to a few common questions on Maine's COVID-19 vaccination campaign ahead of additional details expected to be released by the Mills administration this week.

The Criminal Justice Commission on Mitigation of Pandemic Impact has issued a series of recommendations aimed at reducing the overload on the state's court system.

A Boston woman who traveled to the United Kingdom tested positive after feeling ill the day after she returned.

Despite the 9.8 million jobs lost due to the coronavirus, there are signs the country is on the cusp of a kind of boom unseen in the Obama and Trump eras.

Proponents say the deal could allow Israel to become the first country to vaccinate most of its population, while providing valuable research that could help the rest of the world, but critics say the deal raises major ethical concerns.

Lanny Dellinger, 12, of Winslow was hanging on to ice to keep his head above water when first responders with wetsuits on freed him.

Much of the protected land is at the top of West Mountain.

The hot-air dirigible made its debut during a protest of Trump’s first visit to the United Kingdom.

Bobi Wine, who took 34 percent of the vote in last week's presidential election, has rejected the official outcome as fraudulent and insists he will use all legal means to protest the allegedly 'cooked-up' results.

A daylong webinar series explores racial equity in Maine; Gov. Janet Mills and other elected officials honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

A source told the FBI that Riley June Williams intended to send the device to a friend in Russia who planned to sell it to that country's foreign intelligence service, but that plan fell through and she either has the device or destroyed it.

Jeanne Pouchain has a problem. She's officially dead even though she's very much alive.

The words 'Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit' appeared on the transition briefing note for Jan. 20 – Inauguration Day.

Such vetting for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration would involve running people's names through databases and watchlists maintained by the FBI.

Massachusetts-based Nova Farms is buying Donald and Bertha Maxim's 170-acre farm on the Gordon Hill Road.

Kamala Harris will make history on Wednesday when she becomes the nation’s first female vice president — and the first Black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent to hold that office

Among the dead was a U.S. citizen, Saeed Baraka, from Atlanta, who was visiting family in Darfur.

President-elect Joe Biden will take the stage for his inaugural address at perhaps the most difficult starting point for a president since Franklin Roosevelt began his first term.

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.

The anti-vaccine groups are ramping up their tactics and messaging at a moment when more and more Americans are searching for accurate information about the coronavirus vaccine.

Major health care networks say vaccine clinics are imminent, as the state reports 317 new cases and three more deaths.

In the past week, Trump has been consumed with the question of whether to issue preemptive pardons to his adult children, top aides and himself.

The best strategy for those working from home is to try to recoup added expenses from your employer, says one local tax expert.

Racial-justice activists have fought similar battles in King's time and today; for that reason, his most famous speeches are still relevant.

Black Mainers reflect on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.