30 people at Wiscasset jail test positive for COVID-19

Approximately 27 residents and three employees have tested positive for COVID-19, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Spokesperson Robert Long confirmed Friday.

Online art auction to benefit Wiscasset gallery

Red’s Eats opens for 2021 season, with lobster temporarily off the menu

Lobster rolls, arguably the seafood shack's best-known menu item, won't be available until mid-May.

Wiscasset student wins top award in national writing competition

Chewonki Elementary and Middle School student Maeve Tholen wins for a short story that addresses dementia.

Police: Vandal drives through Wiscasset cemetery wall, knocks over headstone

Police are looking for the public's help over the incident at Woodlawn Cemetery

Standoff in Dresden ends without arrest of man sought by police

Police are still seeking Nathon A. Taylor, 41, on an arrest warrant.

Wiscasset police investigate armed robbery

A man entered Maxwell's on Gardiner Road with a handgun Friday morning and demanded cash, police say.

Edgecomb man arrested after high-speed chase through Lincoln County

Jeremy Owen, 38, of Edgecomb allegedly led Wiscasset police on a high-speed chase Friday that ended with his arrest.

Wiscasset jail board approves new body scanner, hires

Jail responds to rule changes by the Maine Department of Corrections, requiring the jail to switch from video to in-person visitation with inmates.

Yarmouth man dies in workplace accident in Wiscasset

James Thompson, 58, was killed Friday when the scissor lift he was working on tipped over, police say.