After serving bagels in the morning, owner Ryan Ellis said he hopes to keep Lately's open to serve New York-style pizza to Hallowell's late-night crowd.

Maine's senior senator will lead a small Senate delegation to Rome for the funeral Saturday.

Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos April 18-25, 2025.

The Legislature's transportation committee says LD 487 'ought not to pass,' especially without assured funding from the Trump administration.

The last year-over-year sales decrease was in March 2019, when the median sale price was $200,000.

Maine's Republican senator is in a tough political spot, and her latest favorability numbers show it.

Redesignating more than $400,000 toward the project should allow the town to complete the baseball field portion of a larger plan for an athletic complex, the project’s clerk of works said.

Wood, who grew up in the town of Mexico and lives in Portland, spoke Thursday at the Great Falls Forum in Lewiston.

Roy Palmer, a U.S. Army veteran, died in 2020 after doctors gave him too much pain medication for stomach pain, leading to an overdose and respiratory cardiac arrest.

The state's education leaders said signing the letter would 'bind the Maine DOE to language of executive orders or other federal guidance without the force of law.'

The show, hosted by Danny Cashman at Husson University in Bangor, ends its 15-year run next month.

Amanda Quirion-Clark, 30, was transported to a hospital via LifeFlight helicopter, according to the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office.

The University of Maine was ordered to halt work on the research project just weeks before it had planned to launch its most advanced floating wind turbine yet.

District leaders are concerned about increasing behavioral issues in schools just a few years after the state raised the threshold to physically restrain or seclude students.

Voters recalled Heather Donahue from office Wednesday night, after Ryan Willette stepped down Monday night, leaving the town with just one selectperson.

As the connotations of driving a Tesla put the cars' owners in a twist, we look at the state's most popular vehicles and why we gravitate toward them.

Meanwhile, most Mainers surveyed said they expect prices to rise because of tariffs and two-thirds believe a recession is likely in the next year.

Here is a partial list of area markets open on designated days.

Michael Williams of Waterville, who suffers with a terminal illness, applied for and was granted a wish for his daughter and grandson to visit him from North Carolina, Amy Calder writes.

The lawsuit says the tariff policy has been subject to President Donald Trump’s ‘whims rather than the sound exercise of lawful authority.’

ShineOnCass, created by Monica Charette after the 2014 death of her daughter Cass, works with organizations to promote youth literacy in memory of Cass, who was an avid reader.

The Trump administration has announced a sweeping autism study that will use private medical records from federal and commercial databases.

A bill before a legislative committee would test the use of cameras and sensors to identify and automatically ticket speeders in highway construction zones.

An Oakland woman claimed Maeghan Maloney inappropriately shared information about her case.

The Legislature's labor committee on Wednesday aired more than a dozen bills that would amend, delay or outright repeal the 2023 law.

Eight others are scheduled to receive 2024 Mid-Maine Chamber awards Thursday at the organization's annual awards event, to be held at the Waterville Elks Banquet Center.

The emergency bill makes it easier for judges to appoint lawyers for people who can't afford one themselves, and it authorizes the state to hire 5 new public defenders.

The City Council, which will take up the budget Thursday, has ordered the city and school department to lessen the tax impact to a 2.5% increase.

The state's higher education leaders say Republican-backed bills to raise endowment taxes would produce negligible benefits while forcing schools to slash financial aid and operating budgets.

Jordan Wood has experience as a congressional staff member and has worked as an advocate for campaign finance reform.

The Biergarten will be located in the newly redeveloped Spinning Mill.

The news of Dawn DiBlasi’s resignation after one year as town manager came at the end of a contentious 3 1/2-hour select board meeting Tuesday.

A bill to require Maine cities and towns to report annual home construction data is headed for the House — but without bipartisan support or a mandate that all municipalities participate.

The University of Maine receives $26.3 million from the Department of Energy through 8 multiyear awards.

After a close race in the town election, Janelle McKinnon will officially represent West Gardiner on the Maine School Administrative District school board.

The presidents of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby and the University of New England joined more than 230 college leaders in rebuking the federal government's 'political interference' in higher education.

The Iron Heights development is the latest in a string of affordable housing projects spearheaded by Mastway Development's Matt Morrill.

A park official said there is no threat to the public and no one had been reported missing.

State troopers detained Joseph Costa, 32, after receiving multiple reports of shots fired recklessly in the area of Unity Road in Benton.

The bill includes a grant program to help residents safeguard their homes, provides a one-time dose of funding for the Maine Emergency Management Agency and establishes a new state office intended to reduce storm damage and protect infrastructure.

There are Masses and opportunities for prayer.

Two adults died after the SUV they were in went off the road and into a tree on Main Street.

'There are a lot less local people that want to do (this work), so we have to have this program,' said the owner of an apple orchard. 'Without it, we’ll just be out of the industry. We go away.'

The way the Trump administration has approached the Title IX probes in Maine has been unusual, legal experts told The Maine Monitor, citing both the speed and lack of procedure.

After years of pushback, Nordic Aquafarms abandoned its $500 million project and listed its 54-acre parcel for sale in January.

The lawsuit seeks to restore the visa status of more than 100 international students in New England, although it's unclear if any Maine international students have had their visas terminated.

Windy, dry conditions in Maine have made the risk of fire increase.

Residents and officials are divided over whether to seek more cuts in the school budget.

The termination letter said Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment failed to pay at least 65% of its climate-smart agriculture grant directly to farmers.

The new business, run by a husband-and-wife duo out of the kitchen at the Mercer Community Center, offers ready-to-bake meals for pickup and delivery each week.

Judith Meyer, former executive editor of the Sun Journal, gave an overview of the law to public officials, residents and others.

Tom Wiley, the president and publisher of The Buffalo News, will take over leadership of the National Trust for Local News.