The judge sided with the state, which had argued that it had complied with the decree.

As the weather improves, complaints are beginning to come in about driveway paving and lawncare scams, state officials say.

The boys are accused of throwing a chunk of ice off a turnpike overpass in Lewiston that crashed through the windshield of a passing vehicle, seriously injuring a Sabattus man.

 The federal grant is being hailed by Gov. John Baldacci, who says nearly a third of the state's youth are overweight or obese.

Maine's Board of Environmental Protection has agreed to hold a public hearing on the project that Calais LNG is proposing for Washington County.

The new version of the bill would prohibit employers from firing workers who take sick days, whether they're paid or not.

About 200 people rallied in Portland yesterday to protest Anthem's proposed 23 percent rate hike on some individual health policies.

The measure comes in response to a federal law that lifted a long-standing ban on weapons in national parks.

A rewrite of the citizen-initiated bill was approved yesterday by the Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee.

The Legislature's Transportation Committee has unanimously approved a supplemental transportation budget that's getting a multi-million dollar boost, but one committee leader says that's not nearly enough.

The company was scheduled to be in court tomorrow for a hearing on its proposed rate increase.  Anthem is appealing a state insurance regulator's decision to scale back a proposed rate hike on some individual policy holders.

Proponents of three different gambling proposals have tentatively agreed to roll them into one ballot question that would go before voters in November, according to the Bangor Daily News.

The proposed ban had generated opposition in Maine from tuna fishermen and members of Maine's congressional delegation from both sides of the political aisle. 

The federal agency is taking steps in response to complaints from Northeast fishermen about arbitrary and overly harsh enforcement.

Maine 2nd District Congressman Mike Michaud has yet to declare his intentions.