Maine News

No holiday celebration is more uniquely Maine than the ones that take place during the weeks after Thanksgiving in Camden and surrounding areas.

AUGUSTA – Governor John Baldacci announced today that Maine will apply to the U.S. Department of Education for Race to the Top funds during the second phase of the application process next spring.

Dr. Dora Ann Mills, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control, said Nov. 5 that H1N1, or swine flu, was more widespread than any influenza she had seen in the position she has held for the past 13 years.

LEWISTON, Maine a ' A Mechanic Falls native who won the Medal of Honor for leading a bayonet charge against an enemy position during the Korean War has died.

A 39-year-old Medway man has been arrested and charged with Arson in relation to a fire yesterday morning that destroyed an abandoned house.

Maine's public universities will offer more three-year bachelor's degrees, boost the number of students enrolled in online courses and health care-related programs, and try to price themselves right to attract more students.

Mainers who owe back taxes are taking advantage of a limited tax amnesty program, with $8.5 million already collected with two weeks to go before the program ends.

We didn't believe we were living through the golden age of Maine chocolate until more than a dozen boxes of sweets arrived at our offices from chocolatiers across the state.

AUGUSTA – Governor John E. Baldacci today issued an executive order directing State agencies to cut the rate of spending in the current fiscal year by $63.1 million.

This past week has been a challenging one in Maine for H1N1, since the disease has surged and vaccine supplies remain very limited.

Gov. John Baldacci ordered Maine state departments Friday to curtail spending by $63 million to make sure the budget is balanced.

Fire investigators are trying to determine if there's a connection between a fire that destroyed a house in Medway and three other intentionally set fires in the northern Maine town.

Leigh Saufley, Maine's chief justice says the judicial branch in the state is already bare bones, and it's about to get worse.

Ryan "Spose" Peters hasn't been shot nine times and doesn't boast about his street rep.

Maine utility regulators have set dates for another round of public hearings on Central Maine Power's $1.5 billion plan to expand its transmission network.

GREENWOOD, Maine a ' A volunteer firefighter has been charged with arson in connection with overnight fires that destroyed two vacant houses in western Maine.

Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine in Orono, talks to Sjur Bratland , asset manager, and Knut Erik Steen , technical manager, both with Hywind from the Norwegian company Statoil, about research conducted at the facility.

A 19-year-old Augusta man wants to withdraw his guilty pleas in a vicious machete attack on a father and daughter in their rural Pittston home.

How safe are Mainers when it comes to gun crime in their home state? Very safe, according to studies and crime statistics compilations.

The race for governor is even more crowded. John Richardson, the commissioner of the state Department of Economic and Community Development and former Speaker of the House, announced his candidacy Monday.