Auburn News

Auburn Fire Chief Frank Roma tells how firefighters rescued a dog trapped in the icy waters of Taylor Pond early on Tuesday morning and helped to revive the animal using oxygen.

Auburn firefighters launched a swift rescue and pulled a nearly lifeless dog from Taylor Pond after it had fallen through ice early Tuesday morning.

On December 18 Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center will be hosting its Wednesday Lunch and Learn program at the Kennedy Learning Center, Camp Kieve at the end of West Neck Road in Nobleboro.

Maine Citizens for Clean Elections says outside money is pouring into Maine and being funneled in such a way that it's difficult to track who's behind the money.

Officials in Auburn are issuing a safety warning after a pedestrian was hit and killed by a car last week.

Salima Nuh, 37, was headed eastbound when her vehicle was struck head-on by Robert Robitaille, 52, of Lisbon, Topsham police Sgt.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for Androscoggin and Oxford counties Monday.

The local man accused of killing a 21-year-old Husson University student called 911 after the woman's death on Nov. 18 and told the dispatcher he had "lost it" and "strangled my ex-girlfriend," according to a transcript of the call.

Peter Robinson of Lewiston reviews a document during a hearing before the state's ethic commission on a failed 2011 campaign for a casino in Lewiston.

WMTW News 8's Jim Keithley reports from Auburn, where firefighters are concerned about the high risk for porch fires.

Spang brings more than 20 years of manufacturing experience to the board, while Donnelly possesses more than 20 years of banking and commercial finance expertise.

News 8's Shernay Williams talked to a friend of 20-year-old Tara Chase, a New Gloucester woman who died in a car crash in Auburn on Monday.

A 20-year-old New Gloucester woman was killed on Riverside Drive on Monday morning when her car skidded into the path of an oncoming car, police said.

Maine's ethics commission Thursday will take up a case involving the local backers of a 2011 campaign that aimed to bring a casino to downtown Lewiston.

A troop of Scouts, with the help of some local veterans and state lawmakers, is bringing a holiday tradition it started in 2011 in Auburn to the State House.

Three weeks after gunfire rattled a Newbury Street neighborhood , police arrested a man and woman who live in the house that was shot.

For much more than a decade, discussions about the possibility of passenger rail service to western Maine have been happening among business and community leaders.

Edward Little High School held a Wednesday night vigil in honor of Brooke Locke, a 2010 graduate who was murdered in Bangor on Nov. 18. NEW DETAILS TONIGHT ABOUT THE DEATH OF HUSSON UNIVERSITY STUDENT BROOKE LOCKE.

A local man was indicted Wednesday on one count each of intentional or knowing murder, kidnapping and gross sexual assault by the Penobscot County grand jury in the strangulation death of a Husson University student earlier this month.

Phil Nadeau, chairman of the Lewiston-Auburn Transit Committee, said he is hopeful the second bus should begin its Lewiston-Auburn service within the next few days.