Alewife fish populations are continuing to journey back home to Maine's Penobscot River thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which is helping to reconnect and restore fish passages.

The yak imprinted on his owners after they bottle-fed him to keep him alive.

None of the hazardous materials aboard the train caught fire, railroad officials said.

The six-to-three ruling is the latest in a series of Supreme Court decisions in recent years expanding religious rights.

Maine has enacted a groundbreaking law that will ban the use of toxic PFAS compounds in all products by 2030, except in instances deemed “currently unavoidable”. Though states and the federal government have passed piecemeal laws regulating the dangerous chemicals’ use, Maine is the nation’s first state and world’s first government to enact a broad prohibition on the class of about 9,000 compounds, which are dubbed “forever chemicals” because they don’t fully break down and accumulate in the environment and humans.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Ranked choice voting will be used for the first time in a presidential race in the U.S. under a ruling Tuesday by the Maine Supreme Court

The new law, set to take effect July 1, 2020, would require Internet service providers to get permission from their customers before any data could be sold to a third party. Legal pushback is expected.

Good news! Maine lawmakers have passed a bill that will prevent internet providers from selling consumers’ private internet data to advertisers. The state’s senate unanimously passed the bill 35-0 on Thursday following an earlier vote by state representatives 96-45 in favor of the bill.

The long read: At the age of 20, Christopher Knight parked his car on a remote trail in Maine and walked away with only the most basic supplies. He had no plan. His chief motivation was to avoid contact with people. This is his story.

Food containers made of Styrofoam, also known as polystyrene, will be officially banned from businesses in Maine after governor Janet Mills signed a bill into law Tuesday. The law, which will go into effect January 1, 2021, prohibits restaurants, caterers, coffee shops and grocery stores from using the to-go foam containers because they cannot be recycled in Maine.

At 4 p.m. on September 18, 1891, Oliver Cromwell Gould, son of 10th Maine Infantry veteran John Mead Gould, took a photograph of Antietam’s East Woods.

Two elusive predators, the lynx and the fisher, battle to the death in the snowstorms of New England. By Joshua Rapp Learn.

Hamdia Ahmed said she felt the Dunkin' employee was discriminating against her and her family for speaking Somali

Far from ground zero in the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration along the southern border, US Customs and Border Protection checkpoints on highways in Maine and New Hampshire are catching the eye of civil liberties groups.

A comment during supreme court arguments on ranked-choice voting offers a window into where many fear that things are headed - more legal challenges.

A group of Maine dairy delivery drivers will receive $5 million in a proposed settlement for unpaid overtime, according to court records filed on Thursday.

A massive winter storm roared into the East Coast on Thursday, threatening to dump as much as 18 inches of snow from the Carolinas to Maine and unleashing hurricane-force winds and flooding that closed schools and offices and halted transportation systems.

It’s almost time for most of the United States to “fall back” one hour. As we prepare to enter darker days, some state governments have announced they hope to one day no longer be joining the rest of the country in daylight saving time (DST). Both Massachusetts and Maine are considering saying a permanent farewell to observing DST. In order to avoid the much dreaded practice, this would require the states to officially switch time zones from Eastern to Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal reports.

A Maine man told a 911 dispatcher he was killing himself and first responders needed "to hurry up" because he was an organ donor. Skowhegan police Chief David Bucknam says the man was still breathing when first responders arrived Sunday night but he died a few minutes later. Bucknam says a handgun was found next to the man's body and the 911 call was made from a cellphone at the scene. He says the man discussed suicide in text messages and emails.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a hero, but he also suffered greatly for it.