Susan Sharon

Following the escape of four juveniles from Long Creek Youth Development Center, Maine officials have reinforced security measures at the facility.

Mills said she was concerned that Class D domestic violence assault was included in the legislation

Stephen Bouchard, the former live-in boyfriend of Alice Hawkes, has been charged with her murder

Emergency responders from multiple towns in and around Waldo County are responding to a fire and possible explosion at a Searsmont lumber mill.

The 234-page lawsuit names the Maine Department of Corrections and more than 50 people who worked at the youth center, now known as the Long Creek Youth Development Center, during the 1990s as defendants.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said in a statement that she accepted the recommendation of her staff who found more than 12,000 petition signatures invalid, either because circulators failed to witness registered voters signing the forms or because the signatures had been signed by someone else.

The proposed ballot question would only allow athletes to compete on teams that match their birth sex unless a school offers a co-ed team. But the secretary of state's office conducted a deeper dive into the referendum earlier this month after opponents challenged the validity of thousands of signatures.

A Maine-based nonprofit called Reentry Sisters is supporting women released from Maine prisons and jails by building a community of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women, one sister at a time.

This story will be updated. Maine voters headed to the polls across the state Tuesday, choosing candidates in primary races for governor, for the 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts.

With no clear winner in the five-way Democratic race for governor, or the seven-candidate Republican side, ranked choice voting will likely determine the final outcome of the primaries.