Dining out with the kids? These aren’t your grandparents’ family restaurants.

Today's family-oriented restaurants offer expertly crafted, carefully sourced food to discerning young families – a welcome change from the cookie-cutter chains and generic venues of the past.

Maine Children’s Home in Waterville seeking new director

Richard Dorian, executive director of the 124-year-old nonprofit organization, plans to leave July 31 to pursue a job as a full time church pastor.

Maine children continue to struggle in pandemic’s wake

More youths are facing mental health, academic and housing instability problems than before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by the Maine Children's Alliance.

In gender clash, Maine schools caught between parents, kids

The handling of gender identity at public schools has emerged as a new front in the culture war, pitting children's privacy against some parents who fear educators are cutting them out of key conversations.

Lloyd Morrisett, who helped launch ‘Sesame Street,’ dies at 93

The co-creator of the beloved children’s education TV series is remembered as a 'wise, thoughtful, and above all kind leader.'

Driving neighborhood to neighborhood, ice cream truck operator keeps tradition going

Ryan Lowe might be the last of his kind in Portland.

Oliver, Charlotte top 2021 list of Maine’s most popular baby names

While those also were high on the national list, some names – like Owen and Willow – were much more popular in Maine than in the rest of the country.

Cumberland County Children’s Theatre presents Beauty and the Beast Jr. at Schoolhouse Arts Center

Extra cash for low-income mothers may influence baby brains

The findings build on evidence that cash support can improve outcomes for older children, said study co-author Katherine Magnuson.

Stitching books on a quilt for the Bethel Library

The library buys 2,000 books every year, and currently has about 16,000 books in its collection. The library's fiction committee researches the best-selling and trending fiction books every month to help guide purchases, which means the library has 60 to 75% of the New York Times best selling books available to check out every month.