Maine News Updates

GREENWOOD -- A volunteer firefighter has been charged with arson in connection with overnight fires that destroyed two vacant houses in western Maine.

 A Hallowell supporter of Democratic efforts to reform the state’s tax system filed an appeal today to challenge the number of signatures submitted to call for a people’s veto of t

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VINALHAVEN -- Vinalhaven and neighboring North Haven are now getting their electric power from three windmills in what's billed as the largest community-owned wind farm on the East Coast.

PORTLAND -- Portland police say they are charging William Hanaman with the murder of Marion Shea.

CALAIS -- A new border crossing complex in Maine and New Brunswick is open for business.

State and local officials will discuss progress of a $1 million study on how to improve traffic congestion between Gorham and Portland at a public meeting at 4 p.m.

PORTLAND — Every department in the city's public schools would experience spending reductions under a $3.3 million mid-year budget-cutting proposal issued this morning by Superintendent Jim M