The Legislature began chipping away at its unfinished business on Tuesday in the first day of this year’s special session.

Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump searched anxiously Tuesday for a way to end the administration’s policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, with their focus shifting to a new plan to keep children in detention longer than now permitted — but with their parents.

LePage is proposing new bills two days into a three-day session that he has opposed for weeks.

A state judge has ordered Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration to file paperwork to expand Medicaid as voters demanded despite an ongoing appeal, and the governor vowed to fight the order Monday.

Gov. Paul LePage’s administration is seeking public comment on wind energy development after a controversial executive order on that issue earlier this year, but LePage and his staff aren’t saying who is on an advisory panel after disclosing in a lawsuit that it was formed in May.

Sen.Collins on Sunday called the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of pressing criminal charges against immigrants and separating children from their families “inconsistent with American values” and “traumatizing” to children.

Sometimes a little bit of an incentive helps get people moving, and that’s the story behind Cary Medical Center’s recent 96,100 Steps Challenge.

Anyone who is currently sneezing, wheezing and rubbing their eyes more than usual as they deal with seasonal allergies does not need reminding pollen season is Maine is in full swing.

A man and woman from Yarmouth proved to have a talent for tossing small bags filled with corn kernels when they defeated 25 other two-person teams at the first annual Cornhole Tournament which the Fort Kent Lions Club hosted on Saturday, June 16.

PAWS Animal Welfare Shelter presents Toni as the Pet of the Week.

The Fort Kent Knights of Columbus have announced the winner of their ongoing lotto fundraiser for the week of June 11-17, 2018.

Kaleb Daigle, 2, of St. Agatha said he already plans on becoming a firefighter when he grows up.

E.A. Williams cartoon for June 20, 2018.

Late May to early June is a wonderful time to live in Maine, because before we welcome the millions of tourists to “Vacationland,” those of us lucky enough to call Maine home get to celebrate graduation season.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

E.A. Williams cartoon for June 13, 2018.

Today we go up, up and away, to talk about balloons, specifically weather balloons. They are an indispensable tool used by weather forecasters.

It’s that time of year again when genealogists are apt to feel the urge to track down a family cemetery.