Low-income children may not find a good meal for supper at home, so the USDA offers assistance.

Hundreds of flights between Europe and North America are delayed or canceled.

Queen Sofia says doctors have said the 72-year-old king could be given the all clear to go home in four days.

BRUNSWICK — The School Department and the teachers union on Thursday agreed to a two-year contract that includes a one-year wage freeze and a two-year moratorium on district-paid coursework. The two-year agreement paved the way for a $32.8 million spending plan for fiscal 2011. The plan was adopted by the School Board on Wednesday. According […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Turnout was light, but residents on Thursday, May 6, approved a $41.6 million school budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The budget, which eliminates 25 jobs, was approved 844-497 and is expected to increase the school share of the local tax rate by 11 cents, or 1.1 percent. The […]

Nicole Mitchell, 14, of Bath, affixes a “Sticker Shock” label to a bottle of beer held by Maria Morris on April 29 at Brackett’s Market in Bath. Morris, a Jobs for Maine’s graduates specialist, is based at Morse High School and helped coordinate the event called “Sticker Shock.” The Maine Office of Substance Abuse campaign […]

AUGUSTA — A citizens group has asked Maine’s attorney general to investigate former Public Utilities Commission Chairman Kurt Adams after revelations that Adams accepted a grant of “equity units” in a wind power company while he chaired the PUC. Adams left the commission in May 2008 to go to work as senior vice president for […]

SCARBOROUGH — Repaving began on Pleasant Hill Road on May 4 and will continue until approximately May 18. The area from Fogg Road to Route 77 will be under construction. Also, installation of subsurface drainage, road rehabilitation and repaving has begun on Old County Road. These projects are scheduled to be completed in July.

Scott Beatty tosses part of a tree off a hillside at Fort Preble, on the campus of Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. Beatty, dean of administration at SMCC and co-chairman of the Fort Preble Preservation Committee, joined a swarm of volunteers clearing brush and debris from the old fortifications overlooking Casco Bay on […]