Request to modify pier hints at plans for long-dormant Bucksport riverfront site

Graham Platner postpones multiple events this week

The postponements came as multiple Democrats said they expected a national outlet to drop a story about Platner Monday or Tuesday.

Even 250 years in, the battle over the American story — and who gets to tell it — endures

DETROIT (AP) — From the beginning, many decades before it became the United States, American society was founded not on hundreds of years of common culture but on something less tangible: a series of stories that it told itself over and over — full of truth, tall tales and outright lies — until it willed […]

New York resident sues ICE on free speech grounds over critical email sent to its former head

An upstate New York resident sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for sending federal officers to his house with a warning over an email he sent to the agency’s one-time head. David Streever, who is a U.S. citizen, was on a trip to Finland when two officers showed up to his Rochester home in June […]

Historic Maine schooner sinks off New York City

The windjammer spent decades hauling cargo before its conversion into a pleasure craft. In the 1980s, the owner of Domino's Pizza bought it.

Morning Update: What you need to know in Maine today

What we're talking about in Maine today.