Border patrol arrest 8 Mexican citizens entering US

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they stopped a vehicle transporting several people who entered the U.S. from Canada and arrested eight people.

Bill would aim to help laboratory animals get a home

A bill to encourage the adoption or retirement of animals no longer needed for research in federal labs has the support of U.S. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

Maine’s small airports to receive funding boost from FAA

JACKMAN, Maine (AP)   The federal government is providing a total of more than $2.5 million to help several municipal and regional airports make safety upgrades

Maine lobster lovers hope for no drama in sea goddess event

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP)   The Maine Lobster Festival is getting started in Rockland, where festival goers plan to eat hundreds of the state’s beloved arthropods and crown a new sea goddess

Air quality alert issued for parts of Maine on Tuesday

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection is issuing an air quality alert because of rising levels of ground-level ozone concentration.

Judge rules teen charged in death can be prosecuted as adult

A judge has ruled one of three teenage boys charged in the strangling and stabbing of a Maine woman can be prosecuted as an adult.

Maine ends fiscal year with budget surplus of almost $168M

Maine officials say the state ended the fiscal year with a budget surplus of nearly $168 million.

Maine marks 200th birthday since it split from Massachusetts

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP)   Maine is kicking off its celebration of its 200th birthday–and its separation from Massachusetts–by raising flags statewide

Roadkill database could be a boon to wayward critters

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP)   Maine conservationists are hopeful a new database about roadkill will protect the state’s critters from becoming statistics

Authorities work to reconstruct fatal crash in Maine

Police are investigating a fatal crash in which a car struck a tree in a southern Maine town.