Defense lawyers want murder indictments dismissed because Maine State Police heard confidential calls

The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.

Maine religious leaders hope to stem drop in attendance

Religious attendance is on the decline in Maine, the third least religious state in the nation, according to Gallup polls.

History explains why the left is mad over Biden’s student loan relief

A little help, but not for everyone, has been a fundamental part of the federal government’s approach to helping Americans go to college since the 1930s. Why? Like most things in Washington, it has always come down to politics.

Why monarch butterflies, now endangered, are on the ‘edge of collapse’

The endangerment declaration focused on the migratory monarchs of North America, and did not include more stationary populations in southern Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean.

Climate change is killing more elephants than poaching, Kenyan officials say

Rangers and hunters have tried to help the animals by supplying water and planting drought-resistant trees, but the dry spell has been relentless. Exacerbating the food crisis has been Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has driven up the prices of wheat and maize.

Climate change and vanishing islands threaten brown pelicans

Flying in a small plane low enough to see the heads of pelicans poking from mangroves, the difference between Raccoon Island and unrestored Philo Brice is stark: One is solid land, the other like soft bread dissolving in a soup of blue.

Photo: Light pole down in Auburn

Stephen Sokol: Humanity is ‘hanging from a cross of iron’

On Saturday, Aug. 6, a remembrance event for Hiroshima, the first city destroyed by an atomic bomb, will be held at the Franco Center in Lewiston, sponsored sponsored by Veterans for Peace, PeaceAction Maine and Physicians for Social Responsibility. This is especially relevant as the Ukranian War grinds on and Russia threatens the use of […]

The solution to U.S. border woes is no secret

The arguments for a more liberal immigration policy are solid. A robust and still growing body of economic research has repeatedly debunked the claim that immigrants take Americans’ jobs and cut their wages. It was bogus back in the time of the Braceros.

Lithium deposit in Newry falls under 2017 mining law, DEP rules

The state ruling means the lithium operation would be treated more like a copper or silver mine, rather than a quarry operation for limestone or granite, as the Freemans had hoped.