The New England Aquarium experiment that happened to coincide with the shipping silence after the 9/11 terror attacks showed a drop in a stress-related hormone in right whales.

Work to position the defunct bridge's lift span onto a barge could extend into this evening.

LePage's education package includes a bill that would allow public funding of religious schools and change the way educators are evaluated.

The central Maine town of Athens has been holding a zany parade on Independence Day for 40 years, but last year's event turned violent.

The bill would require Maine school boards to develop a plan to engage parents in their schools.

David R. Burns, of Alfred, has been formally charged with theft and forgery after the state Ethics Commission found that he used more than $2,500 in Clean Election funds for personal purposes.

The GOP presidential candidate plans to make his first campaign stop in Maine at a rally Friday in Portland.

The committee voted to cap spending on Medicaid provided to childless adults, a program Gov. Paul LePage wanted to eliminate.

The budget plan submitted by Executive Director Peter Mills cuts the agency's spending, in part by reducing employee salaries and eliminating outside lobbying services.

Peter Rogers, who has been in the post since July, says he's ready to move on to something new.

Federal regulators say a new stock assessment indicates that winter flounder stocks are no longer overfished.

The gift from Presque Isle native Mary Barton Akeley Smith will enable the college to renovate two existing facilities at the campus.

The Maine Center for Disease Control says the number of complaints regarding unlicensed tattoo artists more than doubled last year.

Pennell's clothing store on Maine Street has been in business since 1889.

Officials say Sherwood Campbell, 64, ran back into his burning house to try to save his three dogs.