Two brothers from southern Maine survived a close call after their canoe was swamped in rough weather on a remote lake in northern Maine on Monday night, the Maine Warden Service said. Larry Fiori, 70, of Kennebunk and Michael Fiori, 67, of Brunswick were fishing on Umsaskis Lake on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Aroostook […]

Dan Hussey holds the device he invented with his father, Bob, to help the mobility of ostomy bag users. SHAWN PATRICK OUELLETTE/Portland Press Herald Bob Hussey was recovering from a surgery in 2018 that required him to use an ostomy bag when he became frustrated that the bag didn’t fit properly over the incision. No problem […]

Members of the Sanford Police Department and their North Berwick counterparts paused for a photo with the Special Olympics torch. Sanford officers ran the torch to North Berwick and then joined people at Waban on Tuesday to mark the first leg of the Special Olympics Torch run. The torch will be run through various communities […]

AUGUSTA – Gov. Janet Mills on Tuesday rolled out a $239 million bond package that would, among other things, invest in broadband internet and renewable energy, replace aging roads and bridges and rebuild the Land for Maine’s Future program. Speaking from the Cabinet Room with more than a dozen commissioners lined up behind her, the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare confrontation, Republican senators declared deep opposition Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on all goods coming into the U.S. from Mexico. But it’s unclear they have the votes to stop him, and Trump said they’d be “foolish” to try. All sides, including officials from Mexico meeting with Trump […]

ALFRED – Candidates are locked in a spirited three-way race for selectmen in the June 11 municipal election in Alfred – but most of the political rhetoric appears to be focused on one of them. Former Selectman John Sylvester, who resigned as selectman in February 2016, is looking to be elected to the board for […]

BIDDEFORD – An exhibition of artwork by local artist and psychologist Dr. Régis Langelier will be on display at the University of New England’s Biddeford Campus Center through July 1. Titled “Inner-Outer Contemporary Climates,” the exhibition invites its audience to ponder the relationship between nature’s contemporary statements and the corresponding human conditions of anxiety, insomnia, fury and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The majority owner of a former Trump-branded hotel in Panama alleged in a court filing on Monday that the U.S. president’s company misrepresented finances of the building to evade taxes in the country. A filing in New York federal court by property owner Orestes Fintiklis alleges that President Donald Trump’s hotel […]

Poland Spring announced Monday a plan to use 100 percent recycled plastic for all its noncarbonated water containers, a move that comes against a backdrop of growing concern about plastic pollution. The Maine-based company said the effort kicks off this month with one-liter bottles. A niche product called Poland Spring Origin also uses 100 percent […]

STARKS — Eight people are homeless after a fire Monday afternoon knocked down their uninsured mobile home on Kimball Lane, leaving them without almost all of their belongings. “Everything’s done,” said Deborah Ashby, who owned the home at 61 Kimball Lane with her husband, Larry Ashby. “It’s flat. There’s nothing left for us to salvage. […]