1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (470+ words) A group tied to President Donald Trump’s massive political operation reserved at least $4.4 million in ads in the race between former Gov. Paul LePage and State Auditor Matt Dunlap for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. The reservations first appeared in tracking by…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1654+ words) “I’m here for all generations, for everyone to have access to water and all beings to have access to water,” Ethan Hughes, a Belfast resident who climbed on the roof with his two daughters, told FOX ABC Maine at the…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1730+ words) Michael Hunter was panicking. When his wife, Rachel Worster Hunter, woke up the morning of Jan. 8, 2025, the 54-year-old couldn’t speak clearly or focus her eyes. Michael recognized that she was suffering from low potassium, something she had long grappled with....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (675+ words) Preliminary counts for enrollment across Maine’s seven public universities and law school show that student enrollment could exceed 28,000 this school year, continuing an upward trend in enrollment driven by online learners. Officials said the preliminary head count, which happens before…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (608+ words) If state regulators sign off on a request from Central Maine Power, a typical Maine household would pay the company around $18 more each month for electricity distribution. With consumer groups pushing back, the fight over pricing largely turns on one…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1703+ words) Maine’s old mill towns were built around noise, movement, and long workdays, but many faced an uncertain future when major industries began shrinking. Paper machines slowed, textile jobs disappeared, and familiar downtown routines changed with them. For years, it seemed…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (435+ words) The 42-MW Mars Hill onshore wind project in Aroostook County, Mane, the state's first when it opened in 2007, is set to be joined by an 800-MW addition to state capacity approved by regulators in late August. The high-voltage transmission line…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1495+ words) A town can earn Maine’s safest-city ranking and still feel strangely uninterested in showing off. That was the surprise waiting along the Piscataqua River, where quiet roads curved past old homes and broad stretches of water caught the afternoon light....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (789+ words) For the fifth time since it received its original permit in 2005, the Poland Spring bottling company is asking the town of Denmark in western Maine to renew a water extraction permit for another five years. Poland Spring wants to continue…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (979+ words) The fish die-off that followed a Penobscot River dam shutdown in July rallied calls for stiffer regulations on the dam’s owner, which has been accused of repeatedly disrupting the water levels at a nationally renowned fishing and whitewater rafting destination....