Americans are leery about the use of domestic drones as the Federal Aviation Administration takes on the task of developing plans to open U.S. skies to the domestic use of the unmanned aircraft by police, other agencies and individuals.

By now, you’ve probably heard about the graduation speech offered by David McCullough, an English teacher at Wellesley High School outside Boston.

The middle class is getting lots of love on the campaign trail these days.

Mainers love their cars and trucks but hate roads. At least they hate paying for them.

Millions of tons of debris that washed into the Pacific Ocean after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami last year are drifting ever closer to North America or turning up on its shores.

Another week, another depressing economic statistic: American families earning the median household income had two decades’ worth of prosperity wiped out between 2007 and 2010.

Democrats say efforts by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over a botched gun-sting operation are a partisan stunt.

A Falmouth couple faces criminal charges, and the rest of Maine is being reminded of a message that everyone should have gotten a long time ago.

Too many Americans are still out of work to justify cuts to the food stamp program. Democrats and Republicans banded together in the Senate to defeat an amendment by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to slash spending on the program nearly in half.

Maine’s emerging technology economy took another kick in the teeth Monday, when Betsy Biemann unceremoniously vanished from her post as president of the Maine Technology Institute.