The rules that will govern Maine’s new teacher evaluation system remain unclear, hung up in the Legislature in a political disagreement about the role of student achievement in the evaluation formula.

A decade ago, “Ban Roxanne” bumper stickers were a common sight from Greenville to Millinocket, and the prospect of a national park in the Katahdin Region looked dim. In spite of the opposition — largely from sportsmen, snowmobilers and the forest products industry — Elliotsville Plantation Inc., the group formed by Roxanne Quimby to manage […]

Addressing members at Alfred W. Maxwell Jr. Post 40 in Winthrop earlier this month, Daniel Dellinger, the newly elected national commander of the American Legion, spoke on the importance of attracting new members.

People who think the state could better balance its budget by cracking down on welfare fraud should have been disappointed with Gov. LePage’s radio address last week. Despite spending $700,000 a year on eight additional fraud inspectors who fielded about 1,100 leads, the governor reported that only 45 cases of alleged fraud were referred to law enforcement.

Many Americans may be infuriated that Russia and China have signaled their readiness to veto any United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for intervention to punish Syria’s use of chemical weapons in its brutal civil war.

After making a mess of things, the International Olympic Committee finally got it right.

During most of his five years as Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari was so embattled that there were constant rumors that he would be killed, jailed or ousted in a military coup. On Sept. 8, he left office after a formal lunch hosted by his political rivals.

Social media may be relatively new, but the argument about what employees are allowed to say about employers stretches back more than a century.

When a state panel convenes this month to discuss possible remedies to the beleaguered county jail system, no one from Somerset County will be seated at the table.

By the calendar, it’s still officially summer, but recent dips in the temperature have given us a reminder — as if we need it — that winter isn’t all that far away.