The last time a gubernatorial election was this wide-open was 1994, when political warhorse Joe Brennan won the Democratic nomination in a five-way race, while first-time candidate Susan Collins took the Republican prize, after running against seven opponents.

A California statute that keeps ultra-violent games away from kids makes sense.

SACO — Central Maine Power will go before the Zoning Board of Appeals next month to contest conclusions of the Planning Board in denying its application for a proposed high voltage power line. CMP has proposed a plan that would replace an existing power line with a double-circuit line, which would have 115 and 34.5 […]

Ray Gagne, right, vice president of La Kermesse, and Paul Gagne, treasurer, speak about the future of the festival Monday during a press conference at the J. Richard Martin Community Center in Biddeford. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — The 28th La Kermesse Franco-Americaine Festival will take place this year, but it will be a much scaled down from festivals of the past. Plans for the festival were confirmed Monday by Ray Gagne, vice president of the organization that puts on the festival and Paul Gagne, treasurer, at a press conference at […]

The city is the first in Maine to sign on to a new Web-based crime-mapping application.

Eight-grade student Elizabeth Darragh gets into character Thursday at Sanford High School prior to the filming a video being produced by the Sanford Film Club. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

Petticoats galore whirled around seven dance halls that were held in three of Biddeford’s public schools on Friday and Saturday when people from all over New England convened in Biddeford for the 52nd New England Square and Round Dance Convention. (DINA MENDROS/Journal Tribune)

SANFORD — Dozens of young people are lounging about in the halls of the high school. Some are chatting, two are strumming guitars. Another student strolls through the halls with a video camera, gathering footage for a promo. They wouldn’t usually be at school during vacation week, so the lounging about isn’t because students are […]

BIDDEFORD — Rob Petit met his wife Sally on the dance floor when they were teenagers in 1970. They weren’t rock ‘n’ rolling, though, they were square dancing, performing moves that had their start in Europe and were brought to the American shores by the country’s earliest settlers. The Biddeford couple’s story of finding romance […]