SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of tourists could soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. City and state officials on Monday announced a bill that would give San Francisco the authority to establish a toll and reservation system for the street that winds down a […]

LEBANON — Maine State Police stopped a vehicle for an alleged seatbelt infraction on Route 202 in Lebanon earlier this month and found the operator had appeared in court prior to the incident that same day for driving after her license had been revoked. The traffic stop also turned up what troopers said was a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to explore a twice-rejected proposal to send migrants to “sanctuary cities,” but that is not the preferred solution to fix the straining immigration system, the White House said Sunday. Press secretary Sarah Sanders said it was one of many options, though she hoped Congress would work with the […]

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, may be keeping plans about their impending baby under wraps, but that hasn’t stopped everyone in Britain from trying to guess the gender and the name of their first child. If Britain’s bookmakers are to be believed, it’s definitely a girl — and Diana […]

PITTSFIELD — Harold “Pete” Bickmore was an off-duty special agent with the FBI the evening of May 10, 2007, as he drove on his way to get ice cream from Friendly’s. He came upon an accident on a busy four-lane highway in a suburb of Boston. Bickmore, a native of southern Maine, identified himself to […]

ANSON — One person died after a fire engulfed a home in Anson on Sunday morning, Sgt. Ken Grimes of the Office of the Maine State Fire Marshal said. “The state medical examiner’s office is going to be doing an examination probably tomorrow to identify the victim,” Grimes said. “At this time, we believe it is […]

AUGUSTA — All public high schools and middle schools in Maine would stock the overdose antidote naloxone under a plan being developed by the Mills administration that echoes national efforts to combat the threat of opioids. Gordon Smith, the state’s director of opioid response, said having the antidote on hand in a school building could […]

A storm moving through the region into Monday is expected to bring rain, but not as much as earlier forecasts indicated was possible. Even so, the National Weather Service in Gray has issued a flood watch for central Maine from 8 a.m. Monday to 8 a.m. Tuesday and recommends that people living in flood-prone areas […]

A drug that’s used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes has now been shown to help prevent or slow kidney disease, which causes millions of deaths each year and requires hundreds of thousands of people to use dialysis to stay alive. Doctors say it’s hard to overstate the importance of this study, […]