AUGUSTA — Wastewater treatment plant operators across Maine are scrambling to meet a tight deadline imposed by the Mills administration to begin testing municipal sludge for so-called “forever chemicals” before the sludge can be used as fertilizer. There is growing national concern about the health impacts of a class of chemicals – known as PFAS […]

WASHINGTON — Barbara Bush didn’t bite her tongue in recent years when it came to Donald Trump: She just didn’t like him. But a new biography of the former first lady finds that her disdain for the Republican president, who transformed the party her own family had embodied for generations into his likeness, dates as […]

SACO — The Saco Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance locating a missing teenager. Police posted on Facebook on Monday afternoon that Kayla Skula, 15, was missing. Kayla was last seen wearing a dark colored top and capri style pants with a marble pattern and white stripes, according to police. Deputy Police Chief Jack Clements said […]

SACO — Police arrested a transient man in relation to a robbery reported at the Ramada Hotel in Saco on Sunday. Police were called to the Ramada by Wyndham hotel at 352 North St. in Saco about 5:19 p.m. Sunday, according to Saco Deputy Police Chief Jack Clements. “Responding officers learned that a male subject […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — After losing in Congress, President Donald Trump is counting on the courts to kill off “Obamacare.” But some cases are going against him, and time is not on his side as he tries to score a big win for his re-election campaign. Two federal judges in Washington, D.C., this past week blocked […]

Police were called to the house at 32 Deering St. in Portland’s Parkside neighborhood, home to Dr. and Mrs. Eugene O’Donnell. A baby had been found abandoned in the back seat of a car that was parked out front. A boy, just a few months old, by the look. There was no note. Nothing to […]

BIDDEFORD — A panel of three judges reviewed an amazing impressive array of creativity and faced some tough decisions in choosing the winners of the 2019 Biddeford Student Art Show. Held every other year, this year’s art show highlighted individual pieces of student artwork in mediums ranging from sculpture to papier-mâché to weaving to acrylic painting. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Bush didn’t bite her tongue in recent years when it came to Donald Trump: She just didn’t like him. But a new biography of the former first lady finds that her disdain for the Republican president, who transformed the party her own family had embodied for generations into his likeness, dates […]

BIDDEFORD — Saco has one, so does Kennebunk, and soon Biddeford may join its neighbors by becoming the latest community in Maine to adopt a ban on plastic bags. The ordinance, which has been vetted by the Policy Committee and the Solid Waste Management Commission and unanimously recommended for passage by both, would prohibit providing […]

Maine State Police said they confiscated nearly 120 grams of fentanyl during a traffic stop Thursday on the Maine Turnpike in York. Troopers arrested Chad Stevens, 35, of Cornville, charging the Somerset County man with Class A aggravated trafficking in Schedule W drugs. According to a news release posted on the state police Facebook page, […]