Republican Les Otten says he wants to be Maine’s next governor so he can end the bureaucratic nightmare that makes it difficult to run a business in the state. Otten, a former owner of the Sunday River ski area in Newry, was part of a group of investors who bought the Boston Red Sox in […]

Just ask its arborists: In a place designated as a Tree City USA for three decades now, people take the foliage very seriously.

Watch candidate interview Paul LePage, the mayor of Waterville, said there is a simple reason why he wants to be Maine’s next governor: the American Dream. He said he is a product of the American Dream, having left his family — he was one of 18 children — when he was 11 to live on […]

Republican Peter Mills said he is running for governor because state government doesn’t count the things that really matter to people. He said there’s a lack of accountability that produces a government that is more focused on perpetuating itself than in solving underlying problems. That lack of accountability, and his desire to change it, compelled […]

ORRINGTON – At this time of year, the Penobscot River flows dark and deep, draining the second-largest watershed in New England — and one of the most pristine. But as the river passes through the town of Orrington, it picks up an added ingredient: mercury leaking from five landfills on the riverbank at the former […]

The Portland event draws 125 open-carry backers and about 30 protesters

Police say the open-carry rally and protest go off without a hitch.