Taxes on cigarette packs will increase from $2 to $3.50, a 75% increase. After it goes into effect, Maine will have the ...

Research shows that keeping children with their immediate families or with kin is often vastly superior as a welfare ...

June 20 marked World Refugee Day, a day that recognizes the dignity of those fleeing violence, natural disasters or ...

Consolidation of schools and districts could be hurting students.

Residents of Shapleigh in York County approved an ordinance in March to prohibit fireworks within a mile of livestock, but a ...

Our youngest citizens should not be bullied into being forced to accept legally mandated gender identities at school.

The Maine Historical Society raised $120,000 for its work across the state. While cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead was ...

Megan Grumbling is a poet and writer who lives in Portland. Deep Water: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the ...

Here are the week's top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

The three suspects in the South Portland ATM robbery on Monday were arrested in Mississippi on Wednesday while attempting a ...

Rescue crews took to the Appalachian Trail near East Madrid to locate the hiker, but opted to call in a helicopter crew as ...

Jason Singer's win on Tuesday made him and his wife, Susan McMillan, part of an exclusive club of married winners of the ...