AUGUSTA — State Sen. Susan Deschambault, D-Biddeford, has been appointed by Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, to serve as chair of the Commission to Improve the Sentencing, Management and Incarceration of Prisoners. The commission will review the status of prisoners in Maine and draft policy recommendations to address recidivism, the increasing prison population and […]

BIDDEFORD — For the fifth consecutive year, the University of New England has been named one of the nation’s best institutions by The Princeton Review in its Best 385 Colleges  guide. The newly issued 2020 edition of the publication, which profiles only the top 13 percent of four-year colleges and universities in the United States, selects […]

BANGOR — A union representing Emera Maine workers is expressing concerns about the company’s proposed buyer at a time when lawmakers created a new standard for the sale of public utilities. ENMAX, an electric utility in western Canada, cut its workforce by 4.5 percent this year and is planning to use debt to finance the […]

SIDNEY — At the leap of a sturgeon, paddlers gasped and turned to companions to ask, “Did you see it, too?” Until 20 years ago, sturgeon had been unable to make these impressive leaps around 7 Mile Island on the Kennebec River. The breach of the Edwards Dam in Augusta gave them more of the […]

The noise complaints started coming on May 26 when a hip-hop and funk artist called Anderson.Paak took the stage at Westbrook’s new concert venue, the open-air stage known as the Maine Savings Pavilion at Rock Row. Now, almost three months later, the complaints about loud noise generated by a variety of artists, including Saturday night’s performance by Alice […]

Four people riding in a horse-drawn wagon were injured – one of them critically – when it struck a motor vehicle and telephone pole Sunday night in Clinton. “It was a freak accident,” said Clinton police Officer Phil DiLuca, one of several local and county officers who responded to the scene of the crash. DiLuca […]

NEW YORK (AP) — You’ll finally be able to catch the late J.D. Salinger’s books in digital format. Longtime Salinger publisher Little, Brown and Company said all four of his works, including “The Catcher in the Rye,” will be made available as e-books Tuesday, marking the first time that the entirety of his published work […]

CANTON, Miss. (AP) — The children of Sacred Heart Catholic Church streamed out into Mississippi’s heat on a blistering Sunday afternoon, carrying what they said was a message of opposition against immigration raids their parents could not. “I will not sit in silence while my parents are taken away,” read a sign carried by two […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In a barn down a gravel road in Iowa, Joe Biden tore into President Donald Trump’s moral character, declaring in one of the fiercest speeches of his campaign that the words of the American president matter. The next day, Biden’s own words tripped him up. He told an audience in Des Moines […]

WATERVILLE — There is nothing old or tired about the art on view as part of a new Wabanaki exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art. There are no arrowheads, yellowing documents or other reminders of the wars and broken treaties that have defined Indian life in Maine and across North America since the […]