Selectperson Judy Diaz plans to submit her resignation next month.

The decision will be between the Sheriff's Office or reestablishing a police department.

Bad news for Huntington Ingalls, the only other shipyard that makes Arleigh Burke-class destroyers for the Navy, doesn’t mean the Navy will be more inclined to give BIW future contracts to build ships, according to Navy analysts.

Arrests logged from Oct. 22 to Oct. 25.

Hiring additional staff members is the next step in the district’s “feather-in” approach to bring kindergarteners and first graders back to full-time, in-person learning on Dec. 7, said MSAD75 Superintendent Shawn Chabot.

Dad walks with his daughter inline skating between online classes.

Nicole Briand, interim town manager, said residents can still drop ballots in the secure ballot box or request an absentee ballot online, but confirmed that the polls were closed for early voting Monday.

A widely cited model projects about 386,000 dead by Feb. 1.

The administration's pandemic response has weighed on President Trump's campaign all year.

More people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in big states has caused a surge in turnout in recent days.

Republicans control the chamber so, even with Maine's Sen. Susan Collins voting against it, Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation wasn't in doubt before the 52-48 vote.

Months after it raced in successive waves along the nation's coasts and through the Sun Belt, the virus is reaching deep into its final frontier - the nation's most sparsely populated states and counties

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.

Stocks of companies that need the virus to abate and the economy to return to normal had some of the biggest losses.

The superintendent says schools cannot open fully under the state's COVID-19 requirements.

Maine's CDC director says risks of infection rise when large groups gather without face coverings – such as an outdoor event in Levant where President Trump appeared Sunday.

Texas is one of five red states that emerged as conspicuous holdouts this year as the rest of the country rushed to loosen voting rules.

Authorities and homeowners in central Florida have accused a 26-year-old man of stealing a bulldozer from a construction site and driving it into a neighborhood to knock down campaign signs promoting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden

The candidates are planning small-scale events, tours and door-knocking campaigns around the state through next Tuesday.

Gulls are often maligned as “rats of the sky,” but is that assessment warranted? Isn't there beauty in their plaintive calls? Aren’t they as evocative of the coast as salt air, foghorns, bell buoys, lobster boats and lighthouses? Or are they simply too common, too messy and too pushy to deserve our admiration? Gulls, love them or hate them, are smart, fascinating, even beautiful, as our gallery shows. Just don't call them seagulls. Birders will tell you there is no such animal.

The Oscar-winning director from Hollywood's Golden Age grew up in Portland, but it took a friend of Ford's from Louisiana to get his hometown to formally recognize his achievements.

The pandemic's toll on a Seattle convention center's revenue led to the complicated project getting cut.

This week the crate, which was used to ship the Spirit of St. Louis back to the United States in 1927, was shipped from Ross' house in Canaan to its new home at the Wreaths Across America Museum in Columbia Falls.

Students who enroll in the free course will be paid hourly and are guaranteed a job so long as they pass.

The popular Bailey Island restaurant plans to reopen on Wednesday after all employees are tested and the building gets a thorough cleaning.

Throngs of supporters attended the event in Levant; some wore masks, but most did not, and neither did the president.

Gov. Janet Mills, House Speaker Sara Gideon and Attorney General Aaron Frey hold a rally in Bangor before the president's visit to an orchard in Levant.

Archbishop Wilton Gregory has drawn notice for his more inclusive treatment of LGBTQ Catholics and the Washington, D.C., archdiocese created anti-racism initiative under his leadership.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows says it can't be reined in because it's 'a contagious virus just like the flu.'

The event has triggered a planned Democratic rally before Trump's scheduled arrival in Bangor Sunday afternoon.

Though one day's numbers do not reflect an epidemiological trend, the state's seven-day daily case average has been trending upward.

A recent disconnect between the state and a youth hockey league about what should be done raised questions about how Gov. Mills' administration has approached enforcing executive orders passed since the pandemic began.

Campaign mailers, many of them negative, are increasingly popular as the COVID-19 pandemic limits door-knocking and huge sums of money flood into Maine from out of state.

As Maine schools see isolated cases of coronavirus and shift between instructional models, teachers are doing their best to regain a sense of normalcy and adapt their classrooms to the pandemic.

Some sweet, some healthful, these creepy creations from Mainers' kitchens are frighteningly clever.

Mainers refused a fifth term to Margaret Chase Smith, the only lawmaker until Collins who's sought one since voters began electing senators more than a century ago.

Kaylee Blodgett, 15, is no novice, having been hunting since she was 10, and she has shot five deer and a moose during her lifetime.

The 2020 Maine Press Association Better Newspaper Contest Awards were announced Oct. 24. Here are the Sun Journal's award-winning stories, columns, projects and photography.

With the talks slogging on, the Republican-controlled Senate is set to leave town on Monday.

On social media, stories have circulated of officers helping protect demonstrators from water cannons and allowing them to escape without arrest.

Ethiopia is denouncing 'belligerent threats' over the huge dam it has nearly completed on the Blue Nile River.

The former Senate leader says if Democrats win the presidency and the Senate, only a short test of bipartisanship is warranted.