Mortgage Refinance

Instead, Senate President Elizabeth "Libby" Mitchell, D-Vassalboro, is proposing to prohibit all Maine employers from firing workers who take sick days, whether paid or unpaid.

Mainers may have the chance to vote on a major expansion of gambling across the state.

Students representing 18 Maine high schools will compete tonight and Saturday in the Maine Drama Festival state finals.

Share + Mar 18, 2010 5:28 pm US/Eastern DAVID SHARP, Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Maine A 66-year-old man charged this week with having child porn on his computer is believed to be the first person to face such allegations after being removed from Maine's sex offender registry, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

In this March 8, 2010 photo, Jon Johansen leafs through an old maritime newspaper at his home in Winterport, Maine.

This article profiles five of the ten most popular Mid-Coast Maine lighthouses: Owls Head Light, Rockland Breakwater Light, Grindle Point Light, Browns Head Light, Fort Point Light.

Semifinalist Shelly Moody teaches at Williams Elementary School in Oakland. The Maine Department of Education named five semi-finalists Monday, March 15, for the 2011 Maine Teacher of the Year.

Gov. John Baldacci took part in the annual maple tree tapping at the Blaine House Monday morning.

Maine's Department of Education is asking teachers, school administrators, business people and others for advice as it prepares to apply for up to $75 million in federal funds aimed at education reform.

Gov. John Baldacci wants to use additional federal money to help the state's Drugs for the Elderly program, nursing homes, schools and municipalities.

Despite months of work by a state task force on medical marijuana, significant concerns remain about the details of developing Maine's new voter-approved system of pot dispensaries.

As the last families at the Carrabassett Inn & Grill finish their fried haddock and prime rib, two men in leather jackets haul away the empty tables.

Candidates are lining up to run for the Maine House as incumbents hit their term limits and challengers sign up to take their seats.

Want to eat spaghetti for a goat cause? Some 16 members of the Junior Boer Goat Breeders of Maine are hosting a spaghetti supper from 5 to 9 p.m. today at the Manchester Lions Club to raise money for a trip to Kentucky.

A yellow eyelash viper, a Central American snake, photographed at the Cape Fear Serpentarium.

State fire officials have responded to numerous wild fires over the past week and are urging people to use caution.

Four men from southern Maine and one from central Maine were indicted by a federal grand jury this week on heroin-trafficking charges.

A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.

The long-simmering debate over the future of Maine's northern woodlands is about to move back to the front burner.

SACO, Maine a ' The Maine Warden Service is trying to determine who released a poisonous Gaboon viper snake behind a movie theater in Saco.