Both Sens. Snowe and Collins say Obama’s promise of bipartisan effort is key to success.

Patrick Calder, a 29-year-old merchant mariner from Portland, says “it is important that people be given an alternative.”

WASHINGTON — President Obama has nominated William Kayatta Jr. of Cape Elizabeth to fill Maine’s seat on the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, the White House announced Monday.

It will be a bipartisan night for Maine lawmakers when President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress.

WASHINGTON — Two Democrats said Friday that they are running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, expanding the Democratic primary field to four.

Dill, a Cape Elizabeth Democrat, and Pollard, a Portland homebuilder, enter the Democratic primary race against three-term U.S. Sen. Snowe.

WASHINGTON — Maine’s members of Congress say they oppose the Internet anti-piracy legislation that prompted a wave of protests Wednesday, including blackouts by websites like Wikipedia.

WASHINGTON — Maine’s members of Congress say they oppose the Internet anti-piracy legislation that prompted a wave of protests Wednesday, including blackouts by websites like Wikipedia.

WASHINGTON — Nancy and Mike Heath went into panic mode about a year ago when they tried to refinance their Westbrook home and were told they lived in a flood zone and had to pay $1,700 a year for federal flood insurance.