Maine News

Candidates are lining up to run for the Maine House as incumbents hit their term limits and challengers sign up to take their seats.

Want to eat spaghetti for a goat cause? Some 16 members of the Junior Boer Goat Breeders of Maine are hosting a spaghetti supper from 5 to 9 p.m. today at the Manchester Lions Club to raise money for a trip to Kentucky.

A yellow eyelash viper, a Central American snake, photographed at the Cape Fear Serpentarium.

State fire officials have responded to numerous wild fires over the past week and are urging people to use caution.

Four men from southern Maine and one from central Maine were indicted by a federal grand jury this week on heroin-trafficking charges.

A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.

The long-simmering debate over the future of Maine's northern woodlands is about to move back to the front burner.

SACO, Maine a ' The Maine Warden Service is trying to determine who released a poisonous Gaboon viper snake behind a movie theater in Saco.

Greg Brooks, the owner of the Sea Hunter has returned home after delivering supplies to Haiti.

A lawmaker from northern Maine has launched another attempt to divide Maine into two states.

The Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee split on a bill to require cell phones to carry warnings they may cause brain cancer.

As a proposal to require health warnings on cellular phones got a fresh legislative review Tuesday, Gov.

CLEARLAKE, Calif. a ' Authorities have identified two bodies found in an embankment as a Maine couple who worked at a Northern California marijuana growing operation.

The Maine Department of Education today named the state's 10 "persistently lowest-achieving schools" as defined by federal criteria, including a Portland elementary school.

More Maine National Guard soldiers are headed to Afghanistan. The Guard says there will be a deployment ceremony Saturday for about 175 members of the 1136th Transportation Company.

The Labor Committee on Monday reviewed a scaled-back version of a bill to require some Maine employers to provide paid sick days to employees.

GRAY, Maine a ' The National Weather Service in Maine says last month has gone into the books as one of the warmest, least-snowy Februarys on record.

Skowhegan Area high School and Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield are among more than two dozen schools to compete later this month in the Maine Drama Festival.

Roller-skiers in Maine will have to follow the same rules of the road as bicyclists to protect their safety.

In this May 21, 2009, file photo, a dead Asian longhorned beetle is seen in its adult stage, front, and in its larva stage, rear, at the state Department of Resources and Economic Development Division of Forest and Lands office in Hillsboro, N.H. Campers headed to Maine from other states wouldn't be allowed to bring their own firewood under a ...