Chris Markwood played with plenty of toughness with the Red Riots decades ago, and that has carried over to the program he ...

Democrats on Friday announced a new budget plan that includes MaineCare funding to fill gaps in this year's budget as well as core services funding for the next two years.

✔BUY AND LIVE LOCAL The Desfosses family is proud to be part of the solution in Maine’s housing crunch. Now operated by the ...

A procedural vote Friday will provide a first test of whether the package has the 60 votes needed to advance, ahead of final voting likely later in the day.

Four were taken to a Farmington hospital with suspected minor injuries after a bus and truck collided at a 'very low speed,' ...

An exhibit that encompasses an ecological record of Monhegan Island is on view now at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and ...

We should be able to expect that an elected official would not intentionally expose a teenager to bullying for the sake of ...

Teachers advocate for our students on a daily basis. We do this through building a respectful, loving and safe environment.

The week's top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Longtime subscriber here. I love my newspaper but I like having a local, independent newspaper written by local journalists more, and so I understand the changes the Maine Trust is making. But while ...

As a retired middle school administrator and a veteran of more than 30 years, working with adolescents, I watched the Feb. 21 interaction between our president of the United States and our governor, ...

I applaud Madolyn Roy for her initiative and well-written argument in favor of lowering the voting age for Maine’s state and local elections (“Lower the voting age for the good of Maine”). However, ...