PORTLAND — As marches go, it wasn’t a particularly big one and, given the timing — a cold January afternoon, not long before sunset — it didn’t attract anything in the way of a crowd.

Family and friends were trying to come to terms Saturday with the deaths of two Oxford County teenagers in a car crash Friday night, a tragedy that police say was attributable partly to alcohol and text messaging.

PORTLAND — Occupy Maine protesters cleaned up their Lincoln Park encampment Saturday, pledging to make the park a tidy and welcoming place.

PORTLAND — Occupy Maine protesters cleaned up their Lincoln Park encampment Saturday, pledging to make the park a tidy and welcoming place.

Family and friends were trying to come to terms Saturday with the deaths of two Oxford County teenagers in a car crash Friday night, a tragedy that police say was attributable partly to alcohol and text messaging.

PORTLAND — When he moved from Burundi in 2010, Dieudonne Nahigombeye’s first home in the United States was Portland’s homeless shelter on Oxford Street.

The Millinocket Forest, 5,061 acres, purchased by the Department of Conservation from land conservationist Roxanne Quimby for $2.1 million, using state and federal funds.

Clayton Haskell needed land to expand his beef operation at Pleasant River Farm in Windham in order to supply meat to St. Joseph’s College in Standish.

State environmental regulators are urging the Legislature to re-evaluate Maine’s mercury recycling program, after concluding that the state spent more than $2.5 million in the last 10 years to keep just more than 400 pounds of mercury out of the environment.