While members of Congress were fighting about marginal tax rates on income between $200,000 and $450,000 per year, a two-year, 2 percent payroll tax holiday was allowed to expire.

Residents of Maine’s largest city got a nasty surprise last month when a water main collapsed during the morning rush hour, flooding a busy intersection, damaging cars and buildings.

Winslow Homer painted “Fox Hunt” in 1893 in his Prouts Neck studio in Scarborough.

Young children, defined as anyone under the age of about 50, might find this hard to believe, but there was a brief time when “groovy” was used without irony as a term of approbation.

The power of a minority to stop the U.S. Senate in its tracks, even when it’s only a minority of one, is what makes the body what it is. And lately, that’s the problem.

Not much is heard these days about the bailout of American International Group. We’re more likely to see stories about bailout recipients with continuing problems, such as GM, Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. But AIG was perhaps the most spectacular — and outrageous — exemplar of the panic of 2008 and excesses of Wall Street.

Instagram, the wildly popular online photo-sharing company, just made its 100 million-plus user base very angry.

One common response to the mass murder of innocent children in Newtown, Conn., has been calls “to do more” to help people with mental illness.

Democrats in the Legislature had a broad range of issues on which they could focus this session.

Just when it looked like the nation might back away from the fiscal cliff, House Republicans have taken a decisive step toward the abyss.