A Maine Heritage Policy Center analyst says Maine lost $2.2 billion in retail activity from 1951 to 2007 because of higher taxes.

Recipients provided information in cases that ranged from child pornography to drug trafficking to bank robbery to fraud.

Seven-month-old Annabelle Mitchell is found dead in the living room of a Waldo County home on Tuesday.

WAYNE — The effort to repair North Wayne Dam got another boost Tuesday.  At a special town meeting, residents voted to spend $23,600 from an undesignated fund balance to pay for initial engineering work. The final cost of repairs is unknown. The extent of the project will depend in part on the choice of the […]

AUGUSTA — Maine lawmakers have killed a bill to allow towns without police departments to increase the distance between schools and the homes of registered sex offenders. The 93-56 House vote Tuesday followed last week’s Senate rejection of the bill. It would have expanded the allowed distance between sex offenders’ addresses and schools from 750 […]

The bill would have prohibited landowners who use foreign loggers from utilizing Maine’s popular Tree Growth Tax program.

More than 800 unionized nurses have been operating without a contract since the end of September.

The money is aimed at scholarships, faculty resources, and paying for capital construction and renovation projects.