Maine News

Commencements are being held Saturday for graduates of Southern Maine Community College in South Portland, Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield, Northern Maine Community College in Presque Isle and York County Community College in Wells.

Jim Stott, co-owner of Stonewall Kitchen, left, speaks about once needing a bone marrow transfusion and wonders, if he didn't have health insurance at the time, what would have been the outcome.

Survey of Households - The preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate estimate for Maine was 6.9 percent in April, down slightly from 7.1 percent in March and 7.3 percent one year ago.

Spring Bird Walk on the Pleasant Point Nature Preserve, Cushing, led by Georges River Land Trust volunteer and Midcoast Maine Audubon Society former president Bill Goodwill.

In early June, the University of Maine will launch a small-scale offshore demonstrator of a floating wind turbine, fabricated in its lab with a lightweight concrete foundation and composite tower.

On Wednesday, May 29 at 6:30pm at the Belfast Free Library , located at 106 High Street, the community is invited to a presentation with Kevin Lewis, CEO of Maine Community Health Options , a nonprofit organization that will provide affordable health insurance to Maine people and small businesses beginning in January 2014.

By Dominik Lobkowicz Long-time Dresden Fire Chief Gerald Lilly is stepping down from his position as of June 30.

A Turner man sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing his wife in 2010 appealed his sentence Thursday in Maine's highest court.

Ted Talbot, spokesman for the Maine Department of Transportation , said the road closure will begin May 21 with an estimated reopening in the afternoon of May 24, weather permitting.

Senior Lorna Stephens, junior Ezra Woodye-Millay and sophomore Baxter Forrest of George Stevens Academy auditioned and were accepted to perform in the 2013 All-State Classical Music Festival.

What some thought would be an easy process to secure a new zip code for the town is not going to be so simple after all, members of the Board of Selectmen said at a May 13 meeting.

Gov. Paul LePage 's veto of a bill that would prevent Maine cities and towns from requiring superintendents to live within their school districts was upheld Tuesday by the Legislature.

PORTLAND Jason Twardus, who is serving a 38-year prison sentence for the murder of his former fiancee in 2007, is asking Maine's highest court for a new trial or acquittal on grounds that new evidence that surfaced before and after his trial could have been used in his defense.

The Maine Hospital Association supports both concepts, but Republicans are angry about tying the two together and hospitals fear a LePage veto.

Over the past 50 years, Maine's legislators and governors have added millions of dollars in tax breaks for businesses without ever doing the detailed analysis to find out which are effective and which are wasteful.

Jason Twardus is trying, for the third time, to get a new trial. He's currently in prison for killing Kelly Gorham, but Wednesday, his lawyers will argue, once again, before the Maine Supreme Court.

Maine Warden Service divers on Wednesday recovered the bodies of two snowmobilers who crashed into open water last December while riding on Rangeley Lake.

Grassroots groups across the United States are mobilizing against the nation's powerful biotech firms as a new round of labeling laws for foods made with genetically modified organisms make their way through state legislatures.

Two lobster fishermen escaped injury by putting on survival suits and climbing into a life raft after their boat caught fire off the southern Maine coast.

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: for general audiences; parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; no one younger than 17 ... (more)