Taxpayers there say they can't afford the rising cost of maintaining town infrastructure, such as road repairs estimated at more than a million dollars.

This is the second fatal school bus crash involving an elementary aged student in the past month.

After more than two years of negotiations, the University of Maine Graduate Workers Union has reached a tentative agreement with the university system for its first contract.

Cutler, a former two-term gubernatorial candidate in Maine, was convicted in 2023 of four felony counts of possession of sexually explicit materials involving children. His probation officer accused Cutler of multiple violations of the terms of his probation last month.

Portland Mayor Mark Dion also called for changes to the city's needle exchange program. And he urged city officials to bring school resource officers back to Portland public schools.

Phillip Rench, of Waterboro, was one of the first candidates to challenge U.S. Republican Sen. Susan Collins, but the independent is bowing out after citing an undisclosed personal development.

Last week, a group of Maine lobstermen worked out a plan for how they would respond to an aggregation of endangered North Atlantic right whales in federal waters. In January 2025, an unusually large number of whales surprised fishermen and scientists when they showed up in a part of the southern Gulf of Maine known as Jeffrey's Ledge.

A public hearing Friday evening showed Waldo County Commissioners that residents are not willing to accept the increase in their taxes.

Mills said the bill, while imperfect, was one way to push back against what she called the Trump administration's "unacceptable" immigration enforcement actions.

Claims by a former employee against Gateway Community Services have recently gained national attention.