Maine

Opposition to AI is a political force. Maine’s leaders should catch up.

Opposition to AI is a political force. Maine’s leaders ...

Maine Morning Star, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:39

A plan to build an AI data center in Lewiston’s Bates Mill complex was set to ge...

Conservative groups push back on Maine law in latest campaign finance court battle filing

Conservative groups push back on Maine law in latest ca...

Maine Morning Star, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:39

The conservative groups that sued Maine over a voter-approved law that establish...

Nearly half of Maine’s counties are behind on their audits

Nearly half of Maine’s counties are behind on their audits

The Maine Monitor, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

Years of poor bookkeeping led to a financial crisis in Washington County. It’s n...

Lessons learned as Maine began pushing for heat pumps in mobile homes

Lessons learned as Maine began pushing for heat pumps i...

The Maine Monitor, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

A look at one couple’s experience installing a heat pump in their mobile home in...

The agency that negotiated the opioid settlements has the fewest reporting requirements. Here’s how it’s spending its money.

The agency that negotiated the opioid settlements has t...

The Maine Monitor, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

The attorney general’s office has no formal distribution process and says it can...

Maine lawsuit challenges fly-fishing-only waters under right-to-food amendment

Maine lawsuit challenges fly-fishing-only waters under ...

Bangor Daily News, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

"It is doubtful Maine voters intended the right-to-food amendment to create a fr...

Hundreds in rural Maine frustrated with mail delivery

Hundreds in rural Maine frustrated with mail delivery

Bangor Daily News, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

That's created problems for Mainers who rely on the Postal Service to get medica...

Annual Cards of Kindness bring joy to residents in long term care

Annual Cards of Kindness bring joy to residents in long...

Bangor Daily News, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

AUGUSTA —The Maine Health Care Association delivered more than 1,370 homemade ho...

How to help clean up Maine’s municipal mismanagment | Opinion

How to help clean up Maine’s municipal mismanagment | O...

Centralmaine.com, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

More timely audits and better communication are good places to start.

Pittsfield ballet students perform ‘The Nutcracker’ at Waterville Opera House

Pittsfield ballet students perform ‘The Nutcracker’ at ...

Centralmaine.com, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

Photojournalist Anna Chadwick captures an intimate look at process of staging th...

For these Maine churches, the story of Christmas and immigrants’ reality tell a similar tale

For these Maine churches, the story of Christmas and im...

Centralmaine.com, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

As congregations count down the days of Advent, the story of Christ's birth and ...

More need to share the burden of Portland’s social service costs | Letter

More need to share the burden of Portland’s social serv...

Centralmaine.com, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

I appreciate Mayor Mark Dion’s Dec. 12 Portland Press Herald op-ed (“When it com...

America needs to get back to basics | Letter

America needs to get back to basics | Letter

Centralmaine.com, Dec 23, 2025 - 10:38

I agreed with Karen Levine Egee’s op-ed, published back on July 7, that “people ...

Trump backs LePage in Maine’s 2nd District congressional race

Trump backs LePage in Maine’s 2nd District congressiona...

Maine Morning Star, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

President Donald Trump on Thursday threw his support behind former Maine Gov. Pa...

Judge blocks new HUD funding restrictions for Housing First initiatives

Judge blocks new HUD funding restrictions for Housing F...

Maine Morning Star, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

A U.S. Department of Justice attorney informed a federal Rhode Island judge Frid...

Howland Sex Offender Let Off With Time Served After Passport Fraud Conviction

Howland Sex Offender Let Off With Time Served After Pas...

The Maine Wire, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

A Howland sex offender convicted of passport fraud was sentenced to time served ...

Portland Redirects Opioid Settlement Cash to Expand Services for Unhoused, Addicts

Portland Redirects Opioid Settlement Cash to Expand Ser...

The Maine Wire, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

The Portland City Council voted unanimously on December 15 to broaden how the ci...

Reddit Post Led To Suspect In Brown, MIT Murders Who Was Using A Fake Maine Plate

Reddit Post Led To Suspect In Brown, MIT Murders Who Wa...

The Maine Wire, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

The five-day manhunt for a suspect in three campus murders ended with help of no...

Feds Charge Pittsfield Man in Child Exploitation Case After Dog Assault Allegations

Feds Charge Pittsfield Man in Child Exploitation Case A...

The Maine Wire, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

A Pittsfield man already accused of sexually assaulting a dog – an attack that l...

New Space-Focused Executive Order Promises Moon Landing by 2028, Nuclear Reactor Beginning by 2030

New Space-Focused Executive Order Promises Moon Landing...

The Maine Wire, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

President Donald Trump took executive action on Thursday aimed at ensuring Ameri...

Norway Select Board considers plan to tear down historic Advertiser Democrat buildings

Norway Select Board considers plan to tear down histori...

The Maine Monitor, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

The rambling, vacant buildings are beyond repair and have become a hot spot for ...

City Council votes to prepay Calais’ share of Washington County tax anticipation note

City Council votes to prepay Calais’ share of Washingto...

The Maine Monitor, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

With a “pay it now or pay it later” option in front of them, Finance Committee m...

RSU 9 board of directors focuses on bus, student safety

RSU 9 board of directors focuses on bus, student safety

The Maine Monitor, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

Directors held a moment of silence for Griffin Mayhew, a board member elected fi...

Lubec voters approve paying town’s share of Washington County 2025 tax anticipation note

Lubec voters approve paying town’s share of Washington ...

The Maine Monitor, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

Town to tap certificate of deposit to pay its $423,512 share.

Wilton-Jay Police Collaboration Committee to present options to select boards

Wilton-Jay Police Collaboration Committee to present op...

The Maine Monitor, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

Options to be discussed Jan. 28 include keeping separate departments, contractin...

Federal actions threaten the essential work of Maine’s nonprofits

Federal actions threaten the essential work of Maine’s ...

Bangor Daily News, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

"By haphazardly cutting federal funding, we risk weakening the foundation of civ...

Letter: Maine wrong on law restricting work with ICE

Letter: Maine wrong on law restricting work with ICE

Bangor Daily News, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

"I believe this legislature, with limited exception, is a disgrace, as is the go...

Letter: Character matters in life

Letter: Character matters in life

Bangor Daily News, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

"A big part of growing up is learning that interest and care for others is often...

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Bangor Daily News, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

A Christmas Carol, updated.

Hall-Dale boys basketball surges in 2nd half to beat Madison

Hall-Dale boys basketball surges in 2nd half to beat Ma...

Centralmaine.com, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

Tayshaun Cleveland and Karter Eldridge dominate the third quarter as Hall-Dale i...

Skowhegan’s Maine Grains eyes industrial park for expansion

Skowhegan’s Maine Grains eyes industrial park for expan...

Centralmaine.com, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

The company’s interest in buying a vacant space in the Northgate Industrial Park...

Derrick White scores season-high 33 as Celtics beat Heat

Derrick White scores season-high 33 as Celtics beat Heat

Centralmaine.com, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

White makes a career-high nine 3-pointers and Jaylen Brown adds 30 points as Bos...

High schools Friday: Valley boys basketball turns back Dirigo

High schools Friday: Valley boys basketball turns back ...

Centralmaine.com, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

The Class S Cavaliers pick up an impressive win over a Class C opponent.

Say goodbye to the Portland we knew | Letter

Say goodbye to the Portland we knew | Letter

Centralmaine.com, Dec 20, 2025 - 06:07

The planned tower shows us money wins the day.

Trump’s DOJ offers states ‘confidential’ deal to wipe voters flagged by feds as ineligible

Trump’s DOJ offers states ‘confidential’ deal to wipe v...

Maine Morning Star, Dec 19, 2025 - 04:27

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more t...

Can European holiday demand reverse Maine’s lobster export slump?

Can European holiday demand reverse Maine’s lobster exp...

Centralmaine.com, Dec 19, 2025 - 04:27

Hopes are high after the U.S. and Europe agreed over the summer to extend a trad...

Janet Mills’ record on education fails to make the grade | Letter

Janet Mills’ record on education fails to make the grad...

Centralmaine.com, Dec 19, 2025 - 04:27

The dramatic decline in Maine students' performance should worry every single pa...

Let’s end this shameful chapter in US history | Letter

Let’s end this shameful chapter in US history | Letter

Centralmaine.com, Dec 19, 2025 - 04:27

In today’s America, we are witnessing incomprehensible, daily examples of cruelt...

Maine must not look away from Gaza | Opinion

Maine must not look away from Gaza | Opinion

Centralmaine.com, Dec 19, 2025 - 04:27

Mainers value fairness, restraint and the protection of the vulnerable. These va...

Hunter helps deer struggling on ice in Belfast

Hunter helps deer struggling on ice in Belfast

Bangor Daily News, Dec 19, 2025 - 02:26

In Maine, deer often fall through ice in early winter because freezing condition...

A legacy Aroostook lumberyard is back on the market for twice the price

A legacy Aroostook lumberyard is back on the market for...

Bangor Daily News, Dec 19, 2025 - 02:26

The lumberyard was run by the Rathbun family at 43 State St. from 1948 until 201...

Disaster training classes will teach County residents emergency preparedness

Disaster training classes will teach County residents e...

Bangor Daily News, Dec 19, 2025 - 02:26

Attendees will learn to perform emergency response tasks such as light search an...