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The Great American Read, a limited eight-part series about 100 of the country’s best-loved novels, will premiere Tuesday night on PBS with a two-hour-long…

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine politics might have a very different look today if a tight 1990 congressional race had ended differently. But then-U.S. Rep.…

BANGOR, Maine — Close to 80 people marched outside the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building in Bangor on Saturday to demand that President Donald Trump…

BATH, Maine — Dozens of law enforcement officers from around the state gathered Thursday in Bath as part of a procession to honor longtime police dog…

BREWER, Maine — Thick ice formed on the Penobscot River earlier than normal this year, so the U.S. Coast Guard was called in to help break it up as part…

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s population this year hit the highest point since 2010, entirely because of newcomers from other parts of the country and the…

WISCASSET, Maine — In 1998, still flush with tax money from the Maine Yankee atomic power plant — which had closed two years earlier — Wiscasset opened a…

A fat-tire bike designed in Maine was the talk of Union Glacier Camp this week in Antarctica, where the bike’s rider — Hank Van Weelden of Alberta, Canada…

PORTLAND, Maine — Voters in the Unorganized Territory just north of Gouldsboro weren’t satisfied at all with the leading choices this election. Not one…

CUSHING, Maine — Thelma “Terry” Dodge became owner of an empty waterfront field in Cushing on Nov. 15. The next day, she died at the age of 92.The day the…