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History will be made when Maine lawmakers return to the State House for their 2012 session and welcome a new member.
The father of a Maine toddler missing for more than two weeks spoke publicly for the first time Monday, saying he wanted to tell whoever has her that "you have no right" to have taken her.
A growing trend by states to restrict voters' rights has brought a backlash in Maine, where an upcoming "people's veto" referendum seeks to restore same-day voter registration.
If you drive along Interstate 95 in the nation's far northeastern corner, "it's trees, trees, trees" for mile after mile, says one motorist. So why not set the cruise control on 75 mph?
A Maine lawmaker barred from the State House after he was charged with pulling a loaded gun on a stranger in a parking lot has resigned.
Maine may have just turned red, politically speaking, but color it green — green with envy for its only American neighbor, New Hampshire.
A federal judge on Friday denied a request to order Maine to return a mural to a state Labor Department office where it was removed last month, causing an uproar.
In a story March 13 about a book about the battle of Iwo Jima, The Associated Press erroneously reported the hometown of author Raymond Miller. He lives in Paris, Maine, not Standish, Maine.
A Maine seaside dock without a pile of lobster traps is like chowder without clams. But as down-home as a Down East scene can be, the state wanted to kick the traps off one lobsterman's dock.
A one-armed horseman is asking Maine lawmakers to allow amputees like him to carry switchblade knives, which are otherwise illegal.
Gov. Paul LePage changed his Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend plans and showed up at a breakfast honoring the slain civil rights leader Monday, days after he said critics of his decision to skip other events could "kiss my butt." He even joined some of the participants in an African dance.
The five candidates for governor on Wednesday laid out their visions for improving education in the state but tied the costs for improvements to cost-cutting in other areas.
Government spending was one of the most heated topics Monday in a gubernatorial debate in Maine, where polls show the Democratic and Republican candidates in a tight race.
Maine Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage angrily deflected questions about taxes paid on a Florida home at a news conference to present his plan to create jobs in a state he said "desperately needs" more jobs.
Maine voters widened the opportunity to elect their third independent in six governors when they went to the polls, campaign watchers said Wednesday.
First, there was the Appalachian Trail, which winds 2,175 miles along the mountainous spine of the eastern United States. Then came the International Appalachian Trail, stretching the AT's northern end in Maine to the edge of Canada's Maritime Provinces, where Vikings long ago landed.
A tea party tempest is losing steam in Maine, a state that prides itself on its independence and moderation.
A cover illustration from an old "Saturday Evening Post" shows a shopkeeper and woman standing on each side of a butcher-shop scale that holds a chicken. His finger pushes down on one end to add a bit of weight, while she pokes a finger up on the other side.
A forecast of sunny skies in April seems like the perfect time to put the top down. But a drive in a convertible isn't what some Maine women had in mind Friday.
As a proposal to require health warnings on cellular phones got a fresh legislative review Tuesday, Gov. John Baldacci made clear his opposition but stopped short of threatening a veto.
Ignoring the health risks of heavy cell phone use invites a cancer epidemic, supporters of a bill requiring manufacturers to put labels on mobile phones and packaging said Tuesday.
As wind power expands in Maine, the industry is feeling a gust of push back from those who worry about the turbines' noise and impact on scenery and about whether too many towers are going up too fast.
A legislative committee sought common ground Wednesday on a divisive proposal to require saltwater licenses for recreational fishermen in Maine, one of two northeastern states yet to comply with a federal mandate to do so.
Maine would become the first state to enact a law guaranteeing paid sick time to workers if the state Senate president has her way, but several business organizations lined up Thursday to say the bill couldn't come at a worse time as they reel from the weak economy.
More than 500 demonstrators, including many disabled and elderly people who receive state-funded services, jammed the Maine State House on Tuesday to protest social service cuts Gov. John Baldacci proposes within a budget to make up for a $438 million shortfall without raising taxes.
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