Representatives of Casco Bay High School in Portland, Gray-New Gloucester High School in Gray and Mt. Blue High School and Foster Technology Center in Farmington were invited to give presentations.

Two retired schoolteachers fall from Maiden Cliff in Camden Hills State Park.

AUGUSTA — Ten puppies rescued from a crowded Alabama shelter where they would have been euthanized are available, starting today, to be adopted at Kennebec Valley Humane Society. The Augusta animal shelter partnered with Puppy Pipeline to rescue the dogs and have them transported to Augusta. The puppies would have been euthanized at the crowded […]

Some opponents argued that the bill would create a false sense of security for parents.

Using infrared radar, a helicopter crew finds the woman on a remote beach on Cape Small.

If an agreement can’t be reached, Maine’s four members of Congress say they won’t accept pay for as long as government is shut down.

Rep. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, squares off against GOP candidate Louis Maietta Jr. on May 10.

KITTERY — The retired submarine USS Memphis has arrived at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, where it will be prepared for storage. The 33-year-old Los Angeles-class attack submarine was decommissioned at the U.S. Navy submarine base in Groton, Conn., on April 1. Prior to its decommissioning, the Memphis was the oldest active submarine […]

BANGOR — Unionized nurses at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor are going to vote on whether to authorize a second strike. The nurses staged a one-day strike in November, but hospital officials locked out the nurses for two additional days, bringing in replacement nurses to care for patients. The union that represents more […]

WASHINGTON — Most Americans doubt the U.S. government is prepared to respond to a nuclear emergency like the one in Japan, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. But it also shows few Americans believe such an emergency would occur. Nevertheless, the disaster has turned more Americans against new nuclear power plants. The poll found that […]