Springfield City Hall, several schools and state motor vehicle offices in Springfield were forced to evacuate last week after receiving bomb threats.

This will be the third time voters have cast ballots on a spending plan for 2024-25.

Connie Venskus has been part of the Jimmy Fund Walk fundraiser since 2011 and is hoping to reach a personal total of $25,000 to support of research and patient care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Writer Jessica Anthony said she's 'startled and shocked, but thrilled.'

Children, adults participate in Agricultural Education Day on Monday at the Farmington Fair.

Construction workers build new playground at former Lake Street School in Auburn.

The federal government is warning that allowing people to bet on the outcome of U.S. elections poses too much of a risk to be allowed in the United States

The rate cut expected Wednesday is likely to be just the first that should make borrowing more affordable now that the Fed has deemed high inflation to be all but defeated.

When the legendary businessman and leader of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, eventually passes away, the next generation of Buffetts — Howard, Susie and Peter — are poised to become one of the most powerful forces in philanthropy

The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreck of the Titanic says he refused to pilot it for a journey several years earlier.

Washington state is going to court Monday to try to block a proposed merger between Albertsons, which owns 19 Shaw's supermarkets in Maine, and Kroger.

An 85-year-old Minot man was transported to CMMC after suffering a medical event and crashing into a 53-foot shipping container Monday morning. Witnesses reported hearing what sounded like a lightning strike inside the store's automotive center.

The funding from the Land for Maine's Future Program will help protect working waterfronts, critical habitat for wildlife and land that can be used for recreation.

Former President Donald Trump is safe following what the FBI says 'appears to be an attempted assassination' in Florida after another attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, faces charges of possessing a firearm despite a prior felony conviction and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

Three beaches in Scarborough saw the highest number of fledged chicks since monitoring of the endangered shorebirds began in Maine.

The bill would require the armed services to utilize state laws, such as Maine's yellow flag law, to disarm people who are a threat to themselves and others. It was introduced a little less than one year after the state's deadliest mass shooting.

The 183rd edition of Farmington Fair opened Sunday.

The new religious code issued late last month bans women from raising their voices, reciting the Quran in public, and looking at men other than their husbands or relatives.

At stake in the next two months are the votes of frustrated homebuyers and renters in battleground states.

Members of the college's field hockey and soccer teams work with children through a free Lewiston Recreation Department program.

The missile caused no direct injuries, Israel said, though the country’s Magen David Adom emergency services said it was treating nine people who were injured on their way to shelters after sirens sounded.

For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole.

Heavy rains have caused severe flooding in Central Europe, affecting countries like Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania.

Only 1.3% of all homes and buildings in Maine are covered under the National Flood Insurance Program and participation has fallen sharply over the past 15 years.

The recruit's mother told TV reporters that he was hit and injured.

The man arrested in connection with the shooting is named Ryan Wesley Routh, law enforcement officials said.

Billy the rescue pup became a social media star for his enjoyment of classical tunes.

Police said the 9-year-old boy was hit when he entered Newbury Street from Laurel Avenue and did not heed a stop sign.

Sun Journal photographers select some of their favorite images from last week.

They pulled off the first private spacewalk while orbiting nearly 460 miles above Earth, higher than the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope.

All three of the hostages were kidnapped in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Their bodies were recovered in December, but the cause of death was only recently determined.

​The shortage affects nursing home and assisted-living jobs of all kinds, from nurses and personal care assistants, to food service workers and maintenance staff.

Around the state, this major case before Maine's highest court captures growing tension between those who support and oppose private ownership of Maine's intertidal land.

The mother and grandmother has been the executive director of United Methodist Economic Ministry for two years.

Chris McGhee, a 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran-turned lawyer now living in Scarborough, said the report mandated as part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act does not do what the law says it was supposed to do.

Cathy Raynor, a third-generation owner of the business, has sold her company and assets to a next generation tradesman who is 20 years younger.

How one Maine reporter learned to love the pig scramble and found old memories on and off the midway.

Tom and Kathleen Reed are looking to sell their property after trying for two years to open a day care business at an historic home near Lake Auburn.

Maine State Police are assisting in the investigation into the remains found Saturday.

Medical providers, advocates and those in sustained recovery congregated at Lewiston's Kennedy Park for food, entertainment and to hear speakers share their stories and the latest in medicine combating substance use disorder.

Events on Saturday during the Maine State Federation of Firefighters Convention featured a parade representing the fire service from Maine’s 16 counties and a firemen’s muster featuring antique “hand tub” firefighting apparatuses.

A shift in incentives to whole-home heat pumps prompts questions about cost and vulnerability in power outages.

The investigation found that agents from Secret Service headquarters and the Pittsburgh field office had an alarmingly slipshod strategy to block a potential shooter.

Walz spoke at a rally at Thompson's Point Friday night after stops in Bangor as part of a blitz by the Harris-Walz campaign on the heels of the presidential debate.

The slight increase comes as the town sees a major reduction in the value of Hillandale Farms property.