Efforts to expand natural gas capacity. Hopes of luring discounted Canadian electricity. Measures to stunt the growth of solar power and discourage wind farms on land and sea. These actions championed for eight years by Gov. Paul LePage and Republican allies will end on Jan. 2, as a new Democratic governor and Legislature abruptly shift […]

LONDON (AP) — Nicolas Roeg, a director of provocative and otherworldly films who gave Mick Jagger and David Bowie enduring screen roles, has died. He was 90. The British director of “Don’t Look Now” and many other films died Friday night, his son, Nicolas Roeg Jr., told Britain’s Press Association. “He was a genuine dad,” […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Library of Congress Veterans History Project has launched “Personal Snapshots: Picturing the Vietnam War,” an online “Experiencing War” website feature highlighting 12 collections that document veterans’ wartime experiences. In addition to oral histories and written correspondence, the collections include candid, amateur photographs. Taken either for posterity or as keepsakes for loved ones […]

Dory Waxman is creating opportunities for immigrants to Maine and helping to revive a lost vocation in the state, one stitch at a time. Waxman, the founder of Old Port Wool & Textile Co. in Portland, operates a free nonprofit school in Westbrook that teaches industrial sewing primarily to refugees, asylum-seekers and other immigrants. The […]

BIDDEFORD — A special exhibition will showcase artwork from the University of New England’s Art Department faculty members at Engine in Biddeford. The opening of the University of New England Department of Creative and Fine Arts faculty show will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30 at Engine. The exhibit runs through […]

Activists on Friday hung banners on an interstate overpass and a downtown parking garage in support of opening a place where people can safely inject drugs under medical supervision in Maine’s largest city. Safe injection sites are illegal under federal law and the U.S. Department of Justice has signaled that it will take action against communities that […]

PARIS (AP) — French police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent demonstrators in Paris on Saturday, as thousands gathered in the capital and beyond and staged road blockades to vent anger against rising fuel taxes. Thousands of police were deployed nationwide to contain the eighth day of deadly demonstrations that started as […]

A Brunswick police officer was injured and his cruiser damaged after a motorist struck the parked vehicle during the snowstorm Tuesday evening. Sgt. Ed Yurek had pulled his cruiser to the side of Route 1 to assist a driver whose motor vehicle slid into the median. The cruiser’s emergency lights were activated and the 2018 […]