Maine

It’s not often a senatorial race in Maine gathers national headlines. But that changed in 2019 when Susan Collins announced her vote for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, drawing the ire of Democrats hoping she would go against her party and scuttle his nomination. Now Collins, a 24-year senator, is in for the fight of her political life...

A coronavirus outbreak at a rural Maine church has infected dozens of people, authorities said, and an investigation that originally centered around the church has found more cases in area schools. On Wednesday, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention advised in a release that “individuals who spent any time at the Brooks Pentecostal Church or Lighthouse Christian Academy…

A coronavirus outbreak in Waldo County, Maine, has been tied to a church and now cases at school as well.

Outdoor dining in Maine in winter? Portland is extending restaurants’ permits into January.

Vice President Mike Pence returned to New England on Wednesday for a campaign rally in New Hampshire after visiting Maine earlier this week. With less than two weeks until Election Day, Pence held a rally at Port City Air in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was scheduled to speak in Ohio later Wednesday evening. During his stop in New Hampshire, Pence…

A Maine man accused of firing a gun in a shopping plaza parking lot in New Hampshire over the weekend told a witness that he believed that “droids” and “drones” were trying to get him and that he was on his way to Maryland, amassing ammunition along the way, according to a police affidavit.  Gordon Falt, 27, of Mount Desert,…

The four-way, ranked-choice battle for U.S. Senate happening in Maine this year is the most expensive political race in Maine history and one of the most closely watched across the country this year. With two weeks to go until Election Day, Sen. Susan Collins is facing her “fiercest challenge” yet, according to Andrew Rudalevige, professor of government at Bowdoin...

The Senate showdown between Sen. Susan Collins and Sara Gideon is the most expensive political race in Maine’s history and one of the most closely watched in 2020. With two weeks to Election Day, the battle for the seat is as heated as it’s ever been.

Vice President Mike Pence campaigned in northern Maine on Monday, seeking to sway voters in the swing state with just 15 days remaining until Election Day. “It’s on, Maine,” he said at a “Make America Great Again” rally in Hermon. “It’s time. We’ve got 15 days to go, and northern Maine looms large. You were there for this president...

Vice President Mike Pence held a “Make America Great Again” rally in Maine about two weeks before Election Day, drawing hundreds of people.

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a campaign rally in Maine on Monday before heading to New Hampshire Wednesday for the final stretch of the 2020 presidential campaign.

A Maine man who had his Trump 2020 yard signs stolen this year came up with a huge solution to prevent it from happening again. Brandon Gordon has turned his Lewiston home into a Trump-ified attraction, complete with dozens of different kinds of Trump yard signs, a massive Trump flag and inflatable Trump caricatures — all protected by an active…

A Trump supporter in Maine had a lawn sign stolen, so he went big. Really big.

Friday: Showers turn to rain, a bit humid, highs near 70 and cooling later. Overnight Friday: Downpours. Lows in the 40s. Saturday: Morning rain, a few flakes far northwest, afternoon sun. Highs 55-60. Sunday: Fair, highs around 60.

A significant slow moving cold front brings Friday rain and then some Saturday snow. Early Friday morning, residents of Michigan and Minnesota are waking up to the first snowflakes of the season. Where the leaves haven’t even come off the trees yet, the ground is already turning white. Some of that snow is coming to New England on Saturday...

Today: Showers turn to rain, a bit humid, highs near 70, cooling later. Overnight Friday: Downpours. Lows in the 40s. Saturday: AM rain, a few flakes far northwest, PM sun. Highs 55-60. Sunday: Fair. Highs around 60.

Two Maine police officers have been fired after being accused, according to a report in newspaper, of beating porcupines to death. Earlier this month, a story in the Courier-Gazette, a weekly newspaper in Rockland, reported that two officers at the city police department had been charged with animal cruelty for beating porcupines to death. The report cited “an investigator’s...

Two police Maine officers have been fired after reportedly beating porcupines to death.

It took two months for a supermarket chain to alert police and customers about the discovery of razor blades in fresh pizza dough sold at one if its stores in Maine, a newspaper reported. Product tampering at a store in Sanford, Maine, wasn’t reported to local police until this week, after authorities started investigating an incident at another store...

Maine moved into Stage 4 of its COVID-19 economic reopening plan on Tuesday, meaning many businesses and organizations were allowed to host more people inside ahead of the cool and cold weather coming in late fall and winter. Places like restaurants, movie theaters and religious gathering spaces are able to fill either 50% of their seats or allow 100 people…