AUGUSTA — The Maine Senate's assistant Republican Leader who helped craft a Medicaid expansion compromise says he is hopeful they can get enough votes to override Republican Gov. Paul LePage's...

SACO — Kenneth Wilson, a physicist who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine. He was 77. Wilson, who died from complications of lymphoma, was in the physics department at Cornell University in Ithaca,...

AUGUSTA — Maine snowmobilers could see higher registration fees, under a measure given initial approval by the state House. The Democratic-controlled House approved the measure on a 97 to 40 vote on Monday. The bill would increase the snowmobile registration fee from $40 to $4...

Editor's note: This story was updated at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday to reflect the House vote. AUGUSTA – The state Legislature is poised to pass into law a bill requiring police to obtain a search warrant  before using unmanned aerial vehicles or drones to colle...