AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov. John Baldacci ordered Maine state departments Friday to curtail spending by $63 million to make sure the budget is balanced. Baldacci issued the order for the fiscal year ending in mid-2010 as...

Area schools each stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars under the cuts unveiled Friday.  Gov. John Baldacci ordered $38 million cut from the $1.2 billion sent to schools in aid this fiscal yea...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman says the state's jobless rate dropped by 0.3 percentage point in October to 8.2 percent October's rate also was 2 percentage points below the national ra...