Donald Trump: ‘I think we’re going to Maine’

Divide over vote to strip Mitchell’s name at UMaine shows the depth of his legacy

The University of Maine has voted to remove George Mitchell's name from campus facilities due to his controversial association with Jeffrey Epstein, sparking debate over his complex political legacy.

Supreme Court declines to take up Maine lobster boat tracking appeal

At the center of the case is a 2023 requirement that all federally licensed lobster vessels must operate GPS trackers.

Acclaimed Maine author Ron Currie visits Ellsworth Public Library

ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth Public Library will host award-winning Maine author Ron Currie this Thursday, Oct. 8 at 6 p.m. for a conversation about his latest novel “We Will See You Bleed” (2025) — a book with strong Maine roots.  The novel, the second in Currie’s Waterville trilogy, is currently being adapted for Netflix by […]

California scientist wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids

STANFORD, California (AP) — Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning early Monday that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics. But it wasn’t long before the California scientist asked for a break from all the attention for a […]

Pennsylvania's measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US

NEW YORK (AP) — Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials said Monday, making it the largest state outbreak in more than three decades. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, with nearly 3,900 reported cases, according to the CDC. The nation has seen eight reported measles-associated […]