Bill to let towns allow grocery stores open on holidays dies

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Maine lawmakers have failed to pass a bill to give municipalities the option of allowing certain grocery…

Legal pot is coming but will there be enough places to puff?

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Legalized recreational marijuana is coming soon to Maine, but only a handful of cities and towns in…

UPDATED: Fire prompts evacuation of patients at Edgewood Manor in Farmington

FARMINGTON, Maine (AP) Fire officials say dozens of residents have been evacuated from a nursing home that caught fire in…

One man is dead and three others injured after crash in Buckfield

BUCKFIELD, Maine (AP) Police say a man was killed and several others injured in a crash in Buckfield. The Oxford…

Moose breaks into pizza parlor

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine (AP) Police say a moose smashed through the window of a vacant pizzeria in Maine. Piscataquis County corrections…

Maine Lawmakers Pass $7.98 Billion Budget

Maine lawmakers have passed a two-year budget deal with a sticker price slightly below the governor’s original $8 billion proposal.

Juvenile taken into custody after making threats to Portland students

Portland police say three schools in the city were placed in lockdown on Friday after a student made threats and displayed what appeared to be a handgun.

Maine to ban youth tanning, some toxic chemicals

Maine’s Democratic governor has signed over two dozen bills into law ranging from an end to youth tanning to steps to ban toxic chemicals from food packaging.

Maine might relax residency rules for legal pot businesses

A legislative committee in Maine has approved legal marijuana rules that would relax residency requirements for companies involved in the pot business.

Investigation into Maine trooper’s death now in hands of DA

Police in Maine say they’ve completed an investigation into fatal injuries suffered by a detective when he was helping a driver and the case is now in the hands of a district attorney.