Kennebunk Police Chief Bob MacKenzie said he’s ready to try something different to combat the opioid crisis, by enlisting police officers and other first responders to help break a cycle caused by people struggling with substance use disorder. The cycle begins with an arrest, and many times after the person is released, they return to […]

AUGUSTA — With Paul LePage no longer in office, the public may finally learn how much the former governor spent at President Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel during his travels to the capital, despite what experts say are serious shortcomings in Maine’s public records law. Throughout its final 22 months in office, the governor’s office failed […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tens of thousands of people lost power Sunday after a powerful winter storm swept through Northern California, while another storm system in the southern part of the state unleashed mudslides in wildfire burn areas and trapped motorists on a major highway. The deluge loosened hillsides where a major blaze burned last […]

A 57-year-old Long Pond man died Saturday evening in the state’s first snowmobile fatality of the season, the Maine Warden Service said Sunday. Bryan Sylvester, an employee of the Maine Department of Transportation, was killed during a snowmobile ride he started about 2 p.m. from his Long Pond Road home, near Jackman, Cpl. John MacDonald […]

Growers in the No. 1 wild-blueberry state suffered another bad year, but agriculture officials say there are reasons to believe Maine’s historic and troubled industry is about to turn a long-awaited corner. Maine farmers collected about 57 million pounds of the wild fruit in 2018, down nearly 11 million pounds from the previous year, University […]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Nearly seven decades after Jeff Bridges appeared as an infant alongside his mother in a film, the prolific — and sometimes underappreciated — actor gleefully accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. Bridges, known as “The Dude,” stepped onstage full of energy, thanking everyone from his […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump stood by his demands for funding for a border wall Sunday as another round of shutdown talks failed to break an impasse, while newly empowered House Democrats planned to step up the pressure on Trump and Republican lawmakers by passing legislation this week to reopen parts of the government. […]

BIDDEFORD — The Biddeford-Saco Elks, a fraternal and benevolent organization committed to serving the local communities’ ongoing needs, has been able to make use of grant money awarded by the Community Investment Program of the Elks National Foundation. A total of $10,750 has been used to fund projects that focus on three areas including schools, underprivileged […]

WATERVILLE — Firefighters on Saturday rescued a boy who had fallen into a deep, narrow hole on a recreational trail off Water Street and become trapped there. Dias Greene, 15, of Waterville had been exploring with a friend on the South End Island Trail near the Kennebec River just south of Hathaway Creative Center when […]