Groups to remove 5K pounds of old fishing gear off Maine

PORTLAND, Maine (AP)   A pair of groups says it expects to remove about 5,000 pounds of lost and abandoned fishing gear from New England waters during an effort to clean up the debris

Maine Lifeguards Get Pay Raise

Lifeguards in Maine will be getting paid more this summer.

Small plane crashes at Bangor airport; no one hurt

Officials say no one was hurt when a Cessna 210 crashed at the Bangor International Jetport in Maine.

Maine passes ban on kids in tanning beds, heads to governor

Maine could join 17 states that ban kids from the tanning bed.

Police use radar gear in decades-old missing person case

State police in Maine say they’ve used radar equipment to search for a missing person who was last seen 33 years ago.

Jury in place in trial for sheriff deputy’s death

An attorney says a jury is in place for the trial of a man charged in a Maine sheriff deputy’s death.

NH Scouts come to the rescue of 2 fishermen in Maine

Two brothers whose canoes capsized on a remote lake on Maine’s Allagash Wilderness Waterway say they’re grateful for help from boy and girl scouts from New Hampshire.

E-ZPass users can now zoom through I-295 toll plaza

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP)  Motorists can now zoom through a toll plaza at the southern entrance of I-295 without stopping

Funds for domestic violence under LePage spent elsewhere

Most funds earmarked for a Maine domestic violence program went to day-to-day jail operations instead.

Maine inmates to receive Suboxone in pilot program

The Maine Department of Corrections and a substance abuse treatment organization are partnering to provide medication and counseling to 100 to 150 opioid-addicted inmates before their release.