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Gov. John Baldacci says the National Guard has agreed to conduct a full environmental review as part of its proposal to lower the flight deck for training missions over western Maine.

Educators and advocates for Maine's labor force warned members of the Legislature Tuesday that slashing funding now, when the economy is at its weakest point in years, will stand in the way of a quick recovery ...

The state budget is bound to be the major topic during this year's six-month legislative session, which gets under way Wednesday.

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Amid tears of joy at the state's Vital Records office, scores of people who had been adopted as children got their long-awaited wish Friday to receive copies of their original birth certificates.

The number of homicides in Maine reached 31 in 2008, the highest number since 1989, when 40 people were killed in the deadliest year in Maine history.

Maine Gov. John Baldacci has asked President Bush for a major disaster declaration for seven counties following an ice storm that left some residents without electricity for eight days.

Maine fire officials are still working to pinpoint the cause of a fire that killed an Augusta woman on New Year's Day.

Highway deaths down, homicides up in Maine PORTLAND, Maine Maine recorded the fewest highway deaths in 50 years in 2008, while the number of homicides grew to the highest level in nearly two decades.

Governor John Baldacci was among those who came to the Bangor airport to welcome home an air ambulance unit that's been serving in Iraq for nine months.

Bitterly cold temperatures helped Mainers to usher in the new year Wednesday night.

Champagne sales are down and caterers say party planners are looking for less-expensive options as Mainers get ready to bring in 2009 with a slightly muted bang.

Mainers are paying $1.01 less for their home heating oil today than they were a year ago.

Dec. 26--WINTER HARBOR, Maine -- Citing differences in philosophy and difficulties in getting paid, two Maine firms that had been helping to develop plans for an ecofriendly resort on land abutting Acadia ...

TOWNSHIP 13, RANGE 5, Maine - A 15-year-old boy died from his injuries after crashing his snowmobile into a tree west of the town of Portage, officials said Sunday.

The Lobster Dip was launched 21 years ago as Maine's first happening where people could raise money for a good cause by stripping down in the freezing winter air and running half-naked into the bone-chilling ocean.

These days, it seems as if everybody's taking the plunge, and that's threatening to saturate the fundraising field.

Cold-water charity events have even spread as far as Hawaii, where volunteers last fall plunged into a pool filled with iced-down water to raise money for Special Olympics Hawaii.

The Maine Department of Education is moving forward with plans to ditch the Maine Educational Assessment in favor of a regional standardized test for fifth- to eighth-graders. The move is expected to save $1 ...

New York City may have its celebrated ball drop to bring in the new year. But a northern Maine city says it has something to match it: a 6-foot star with more than 1,000 lights that will rise skyward to mark ...

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Maine's heating season is barely under way, but that's not preventing some cities and towns from entering into heating oil contracts for next winter.