The fire broke out at 9 a.m. Saturday at 5 Missy Lane, a house that had been vacant for more than three years.

The outage snarled traffic and caused classes at Catherine McAley High School to be canceled.

A Brunswick man was killed while retrieving his mail Monday when he was hit by a car in front of his Gurnet Road home. Ronald A. Pottle, 66, of 234 Gurnet Road was hit at 6:14 p.m. as he was crossing the road back to his house from his mailbox, police said. Pottle was hit […]

The Memorial Bridge connecting Kittery and Portsmouth, N.H., is going to be repaired after all. The New Hampshire Department of Transportation announced today that the repairs will cost about $30,000 and take about three weeks. The bridge was closed last week after inspectors found that some of the supports were deteriorating. Transportation officials in Maine […]

The death of a Westbrook 2-year-old girl last week from what appears to be meningitis has prompted state health officials to alert school officials and health care professionals about the bacterial infection. The state issued a high-priority public health alert Friday after the case was confirmed and distributed information to Cumberland County school officials. On […]

Maine met seven out of 10 criteria in the latest assessment of the nation’s emergency health preparedness by the Trust for America’s Health. The report, released this morning, found that combined, the states achieved their highest scores on the annual assessment but it warned that budget cuts could threaten that progress. Maine’s score left it […]

Buses are returning Cape Elizabeth Middle School students home after a fire in a dryer in the school cafeteria this morning led officials to close the school. The fire was reported at 8:40 a.m. and although it was quickly extinguished, the lingering smell from the fire permeated parts of the school, a notice on the […]

Students will not be required to make up the day.