Associated Press

The Shawnee Peak was a name chosen in 1988 by new owners who already operated Shawnee Mountain in Pennsylvania, which bears the name of a Native American tribe that was pushed west by settlers.

The current lighthouse went into service around 1891. The keeper's cottage, built around the same time, is in a separate structure.

One of the largest employers in Maine is permanently closing a Russian subsidiary and ceasing business in the country.

With no opposition, Paule LePage coasted to the Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday, setting up a fierce general election campaign against Democratic incumbent Janet Mills.

The Portland Press Herald reports that the state estimated a year ago that a fully functioning system would cost $55 million. That's more than four times what was expected when former Gov. Paul LePage's administration first launched the replacement effort in 2016.

Maine has the second-highest rate of preschool student expulsion in the country.

The new law lengthens the ombudsman's tenure from one to five years and gives the ombudsman power to hire more staff, among other things.

Chris Gardner, executive director of the Eastport Port Authority, said Tuesday that the request was denied “for a myriad of reasons.”

State officials are conducting the review after a recent car crash involved a man who was convicted of killing another driver during a 2019 police chase and should have had license suspended, but did not.

The Maine Human Rights Commission voted 3-2 on Monday that there were reasonable grounds that Sunrise Assisted Living in Jonesport violated the Maine Human Rights Act and discriminated against the complainant on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.