SACO — A Hollis man died in a motorcycle accident in Saco early Sunday morning. Saco police and fire departments were called to respond to a call of a single motorcycle crash at 2:55 a.m. on Sunday at 240 Buxton Road, said Deputy Police Chief Corey Huntress. Upon arrival, police found a red 2002 Harley […]

BERLIN (AP) — The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a semi-autonomous Danish territory between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans that […]

SACO — Saco police are investigating a fatal accident involving a moped. Jerry Garcia Jr., 20, of Saco, was driving southbound on High Street on Wednesday evening around 5:30 p.m. on a moped when he lost control of the vehicle near the intersection of School Street and crashed into the back end of a boat parked […]

KENNEBUNKPORT – A Kennebunkport town employee reported sighting a great white shark off the coast of Goose Rocks Beach on Thursday morning. Police Chief Craig Sanford said the harbormaster was on a boat a mile from shore when he saw the 12-foot shark around 11 a.m. The employee notified town officials, who contacted the U.S. […]

SACO — Construction is currently underway on a reconstruction project of Springs Dam in Saco to allow more efficient passageway for fish on the Saco River. Springs Dam is located near Elm Street, just upstream of Cataract Dam. The dam has an existing fish lock system which traps fish then transports them beyond the dam […]

DETROIT (AP) — The ideological divisions gripping the Democratic Party intensified on Wednesday as presidential candidates waged an acrimonious battle over health care, immigration and race that tested the strength of early front-runner Joe Biden’s candidacy. The former vice president was repeatedly forced to defend his decades-old political record against pointed attacks from his younger, […]

BIDDEFORD — Maine Water Company has asked the Maine Public Utilities Commission for approval to create a $5 million bond to assist in financing a new 35,000-square-foot Saco River Water Treatment Facility. The application seeks approval to use bond money to for pay for design work, acquiring land for the new plant, and site construction and […]

SACO — Nomination papers are available for the position of mayor as well as City Council seats in all seven wards in the city of Saco. Nomination papers can be picked up at City Hall and completed nomination packets must be returned to there by Sept. 6. Mayoral candidates must have 200 valid signatures of […]

ALFRED – The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine has filed a civil complaint against the York County Sheriff’s Office on behalf of a Waterboro man who claims his arrest in January 2018 following an incident involving a school bus parked on his property was unnecessary and unlawful. The suit, filed Wednesday at York County […]