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Agency Considers Altering Wilderness Zoning Rules in Maine

The agency overseeing development in Maine’s vast wilderness is considering dramatic changes that would alter restrictions on where homes and businesses can be built.

Great Falls Balloon Festival Held This Weekend

Organizers of the Great Falls Balloon Festival in Lewiston and Auburn are hoping that the weather holds for weekend launches.

Even in tough time, festival goers to boogie for blueberries

Maine is celebrating one of its smallest and most beloved agricultural products, the wild blueberry. The Union Fair & Maine…

Canadian Company Ditches Plans for Large Pot Grow in Maine

AUBURN, Maine (AP) – A Canadian company has ditched plans to buy a marijuana-growing facility in Auburn, Maine. The Bangor…

Court dismisses challenge to solar panel credit ruling

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) _ The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has dismissed a challenge to a new rule by the state…

Infected Computers at Eastern Maine Community College Cause Concerns

Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor is warning of a possible data breach that could’ve exposed current and former staff and students.

Waterville Restaurant Receives Worldwide Recognition After Fry Controversy

A Maine restaurant says news about the anger surrounding their french fry change has reached people all over the world.

Court Dismisses Challenge to Solar Panel Credit Ruling

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP)   The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has dismissed a challenge to a new rule by the state Public Utilities Commission on home solar panel systems

Truck Crash Sends Smelly Fish onto Maine Road

NEWCASTLE, Maine (AP)   A Maine community has cleaned up from a smelly situation

Maine 6th Worst State for Increase in Overdose Deaths

PORTLAND, Maine (AP)   Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Maine is the sixth worst state when it comes to an increase in overdose deaths

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Maine Democratic Congressman Jared Golden joined Republicans in defeating a measure to limit the president's ability to wage war in Iran.