Some local restaurant chefs are experimenting with a prepaid, ticket-based model for dinners, which hold special appeal during a pandemic.

Maine's liberal leaders decry Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a threat to women's reproductive rights and the Affordable Care Act, while conservatives hail her as a constitutional originalist.

The survivor of the 1963 bombing of an Alabama church that killed four girls is seeking an apology and restitution from the state

A Congressional delegation said the conditions and the treatment of the women held there is even worse than has been reported previously.

More than 200 people demanding justice for Breonna Taylor demonstrate outside the police station.

With public health restrictions in place, the staff at the Warming Center is evaluating how to best to serve the people who need a warm and safe place to spend their days.

Republican senators are already lining up for a swift confirmation of Barrett ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Each of the five gardens in Oxford County contain 380 butterflies, one for each death in Maine in 2019 from drug abuse.

Droplets that people expel when they sneeze, cough or talk come in a wide range of sizes, and scientists are trying to pin down how risky the various kinds are.

Demonstrators in Trafalgar Square were protesting lifestyle restrictions as the government tries to stem a sharp rise in infections.

Tensions with local health leaders flare as colleges are blamed for exacerbating local coronavirus numbers.

Police are investigating the confrontation in Wilmington, Delaware.

He leaves amid a political impasse over government formation, nearly a month after he was appointed to the job.

Two decades ago, hanging chads on Florida ballots became the unlikely symbol of a disputed presidential election.

The uptick marks the first time since June 5 the state has seen a daily number that high.

The grand jury decision about charges in the case has been a painful gut punch to protesters, many of them Black women, in Kentucky and throughout the country.

Mexico has issued 25 arrest warrants for those who carried out and knew about the abduction of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014.

Milena Mayorga is a political neophyte with no previous diplomatic experience.

Congressional votes for the week of Sept. 18-24.

The survey results, which will be available after the new year, come following 30 years of declining water quality that has put Long Pond at risk for impact by algal blooms.

Augusta and Waterville area police reports for Sept. 26, 2020.

They are seeking tuition refunds over the UMaine System's decision to move online during the coronavirus pandemic this past spring.

People & Places: Nykki Stevens joins Fontaine Family Team.

The hacking of the vendor that's helping the Maine judicial branch get documents online is going to delay the rollout of the pilot program.

Maine’s lobster fishermen braced for a difficult summer this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the season was unexpectedly decent.

Health officials are warning of 'community spread' in York County and danger in neighboring Oxford County schools.

A federal judge rules that William Perry Pendley served unlawfully for 424 days as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management because he was never confirmed by the Senate.

Firefighters battling the state's largest wildfire braced for the change in weather by constructing fuel breaks on Friday to keep the flames from reaching a marijuana-growing enclave.

Organizers dispute Chief Frank Clark's criticism about a lack of communication.

The man may have been shot because of elevated anti-coronavirus measures that involve 'indiscriminate shooting' at anyone approaching the North's borders illegally.

Maine's vaccine exemption rate for kindergarten-age children last year was 5.6 percent, the same as it was in 2018-19, when Maine had the fourth-highest opt-out rate in the nation.

Former Press Herald reporter Josie Huang was taken into custody while covering a demonstration the night 2 Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were shot.

Most of the fires have been small and caused by debris burns.

The late artist's estate, which planned to sell works at auction in October, has agreed to give the foundation oversight.

The area about 11 miles from Kittery will be used as a long-term disposal site for material dredged from projects in Maine, New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts.

The director of the Maine Center for Disease Control encouraged UMA students to think critically during the annual convocation event, this year appropriately themed "outbreak."

But the S&P 500 still posted its fourth straight weekly loss, extending Wall Street's September swoon.

The latest hot spot for the coronavirus in the United States is the Midwest, where cases are rising in a worrying trend.

The White House indicates to congressional Republicans and outside allies that the pick will be the federal judge from Indiana.

Texas-based Tyler Technologies, which also has offices in Maine, is a major U.S. provider of software services to state and local governments.

No one was injured in the blaze Thursday night.

The pharmaceutical firm says CoronaVac will be made available for distribution worldwide, including the United States.

Angry restaurant and bar owners demonstrate against a French government order to close all public venues as of Saturday.

State Rep. Allison Hepler, D-Woolwich, is facing a challenge from Jeffrey Pierce, who she defeated in 2018 for the District 53 seat in the state House of Representatives.

Thursday’s kerfuffle in Pennsylvania and accompanying internet outrage over a handful of ballots is likely a taste of what’s to come in the month left before the presidential election.

Voters in Ward 4 on Nov. 3 will also consider choices in a three-way race for Kennebec Water District Board of Trustees.

The British royal family is facing a $45 million hit from the pandemic, partly due to a shortage of tourists.

‘I think all of the experts will definitely tie the subject matter of the films back to our current moment in a variety of ways,’ Mike Perreault, executive director of the Maine Film Center, said about the new ‘Cinema in Conversation’ series.

Ryan Reardon is charged with choking a woman with whom he’d had an affair.

Ken Mason, who has served as Kennebec County sheriff for one term, is being challenged by Michael Sayers, an Oakland police officer.

The crash occurred when a car pulled in front of a tractor-trailer, police say.

A Lewiston elementary student was deemed to have the infection earlier this week.

Augusta and Waterville area police reports for Sept. 25, 2020.

The equal rights group hasn't backed an opponent of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins since 2002.

After 38 years on Main Street in Waterville, Nancy and Roger St. Amand are selling the Paragon Shop, but they hold onto plenty of fond memories running the popular business, Amy Calder writes.

This may be the first criminal case in the country brought against those involved in nursing homes during the pandemic.

Here are some of our favorite photos from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel from the past week.

The state recommends hybrid instruction for schools in Oxford and York counties, in an update to the school reopening advisory system Friday.

The honor has been accorded fewer than three dozen times, mostly to presidents, vice presidents and members of Congress.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh says the shortened schedule ordered by the Trump administration likely would produce inaccurate results that would last a decade.

Paris police have opened a terrorism investigation after an attack Friday wounded two people near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

The survey of 847 likely voters also shows Democrat Joe Biden running well ahead of President Trump, with the margin tighter in the 2nd Congressional District.

During his 38-year career, he was deployed to the Middle East 3 times.

The University of Maine at Farmington campus police have been responding to an increase in prohibited activities along the Sandy River.

Maine voters are requesting absentee ballots in record numbers, and in the next few days local election officials will begin to mail those ballots out.

Tyler Technologies, which is based in Texas and has offices in Maine, is a major U.S. provider of software services to state and local governments.

Jacob Dupuis, 20, of Gorham and Henry O'Neill, 19, of Standish were killed when the truck they were in left the road, hit a tree and burst into flames.

The sharp exchanges reflect the deep divisions among the three veto-wielding Security Council members that have escalated since the virus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January.

But the former vice president, who ran a relatively centrist primary campaign, hasn't embraced those calls, worried they may intensify the nation's partisan split.

The president is using the vacancy on the Supreme Court to appeal to battleground-state voters and as a rallying cry for his conservative base.

The country is currently reporting nearly 7,000 new daily cases, making the outbreak among the worst in the world on a per capita basis.

The United Nations is trying to assist more than 300,000 merchant mariners who are trapped at sea because of coronavirus restrictions.

The president returns to the issue amid disapproval of his administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and growing uncertainty about the future of the Affordable Care Act.

Carine Reeves, the first person to go on trial for murder in Maine since the start of the pandemic, shot Sally Shaw because she’d insulted the mother of his children, Assistant Attorney General Megan Elam tells jurors.

Christopher Vialva was 19 years old in 1999 when he shot a religious couple and burned them in the trunk of their car.