PORTLAND (WGME) – A Democratic state lawmaker is proposing a tax on smokers to help fund a medical school in Maine. Democratic State Senator Joe Baldacci (D-Bangor) put out a bill last month that ...

Low pressure will track a little closer to Maine and could bring accumulating snow to the region Sunday night.

Engines were revving inside the Cross-Insurance Arena as racers got ready to go head to head in the X-treme International Ice Racing competition. Portland has hosted the event for seven years, and ...

The Portland Board of Public Education announced Friday afternoon that it had canceled a scheduled 6 p.m. meeting regarding ...

According to new details from the Portland Police Bureau, Trent witnessed the robbery and tried to stop it. “People trying to act as heroes do not need to have their lives ended in a senseless act,” ...

Cumberland County Sheriff's deputies chased an erratic driver through Casco and ended up arresting two criminals ...

The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel will go into effect Sunday at 8:30 a.m. local time, mediator Qatar announced Saturday.

The long-awaited $25 million Harbor dredging project starts on Monday as contractors begin digging a 9-acre pit in a shallow South cove where seven decades of a working waterfront's industrial sins ...

Beginning in her first year in office, Gov. Janet Mills has done everything in her power to make Maine a magnet for illegal ...

Hundreds of demonstrators are expected to flood downtown Portland in response to President Donald Trump’s second inauguration ...

Nine of the 12 forwards who played for the Black Bears entered the game without a goal since at least Dec. 8 against ...

Louis Thurston had some tough times playing quarterback for Portland High. A broken ankle that scrapped his freshman season. Getting benched after three starts as the varsity starter as a sophomore.