PORTLAND — The Maine Charter School Commission has given itself a July 1 deadline to decide whether to approve proposals for charter schools.

‘I am certainly not interested in being a spoiler and changing the dynamics of the race,’ former governor says during interview

WILTON — Voters on Tuesday unanimously voted to keep the town from taking ownership of a contaminated demolition site on Depot Street.

AUGUSTA — A former legislator is scheduled to plead guilty today in Kennebec County Superior Court to charges he held a stranger at gunpoint in the parking lot of a Waterville Dunkin’ Donuts.

AUGUSTA — A proposal to overhaul the agency that regulates development in the nearly 10 million-acre region of Maine known as the Unorganized Territory is heading for votes by the full Legislature.

PORTLAND — While it’s common knowledge that the tea party was frustrated with Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, activists were divided over whether the woman sometimes described as the most liberal Republican in the Senate should exit Congress.

AUGUSTA — A judge on Tuesday morning issued arrest warrants for five former Occupy movement protesters, including a Benton selectwoman, after they failed to appear in court.