PORTLAND (AP) — Three businesses on the Maine waterfront that were closed after rat droppings were found inside have been cleared to reopen by the Portland health inspector. The businesses on Portland’s Custom House Wharf were shut down Thursday. City Spokeswoman Nicole Clegg says a pest management company was brought in Friday to correct the […]

SCARBOROUGH (AP) — The Maine studio overlooking the Atlantic Ocean where painter Winslow Homer lived from 1883 until his death in 1910 and where he produced some of his most notable work is opening to the public following a multi-year, multimillion-dollar renovation by the Portland Museum of Art. The studio along the rocky shore at […]

BIDDEFORD (AP) — The Biddeford City Council is scheduled to consider the fate of a convicted killer’s rundown home this week. The council is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to seize by eminent domain the dilapidated home of Rory Holland and demolish it. City Manager John Bubier told The Portland Press Herald the South […]

Bangor police said Sunday they could not identify the injured man because of health care privacy laws. Many of those who took part in the parade and those who lined the streets of downtown Bangor were unaware of the mishap. New Shriner Hutchinson of Houlton said that he had recently joined the Anah Shrine Temple […]

TRESCOTT (AP) — Harnessing power from Maine’s biggest tides will be the subject of a daylong meeting of the Maine Tidal Power Initiative in Trescott. Representatives from federal and state agencies, businesses, area communities and the University of Maine will gather on Tuesday for the public meeting. The agenda includes an update on UMaine’s ongoing […]

ALFRED (AP) — York County sheriff’s deputies responded to two fatal accidents over the weekend. Authorities say two motorcycles traveling together collided on Route 109 east in Acton just before 5 p.m. Sunday. One of the motorcycles lost control and struck a guard rail. Police say the operator, 62-year-old Girard Blais of Hampton, N.H., died […]