York Harbor Beach drowning victim relished ocean swims

Dan Bancroft, 72, a skilled storyteller, York Library trustee and former attorney, had taken up cold water swimming after he had retired and he and his wife moved to York about six years ago.

Man drowns Friday at Harbor Beach in York

The identity of the victim is being withheld pending family notification, police said.

New Hampshire man pleads guilty in violent York home invasion

Derek Daprato could face up to 20 years on 2 federal charges related to a home invasion in 2019.

Southern Maine wildlife refuge calendar available

Auburn is a pretty good place to get your deer

Data show the top communities to bag a white-tailed deer over the past decade are clustered in central and southern Maine — and Auburn ranks third.

York police searching for suspect who stole Ferrari and crashed it

The gray 2021 Ferrari CP 812 GT, whose owner says it's worth more than $700,000, was stolen from the Cliff House in Cape Neddick on Saturday night.

Latest impact of PFAS contamination: Rising sewer rates

The looming cost to homeowners in public sewer districts is the latest impact of an expanding crisis that has contaminated agricultural fields and drinking wells, closed farms and left some fish and game unsafe to eat.

Judge tosses lawsuit challenging border between towns of York, Kittery

York, which had sued its municipal counterpart, could continue to fight. The town select board will meet next month to discuss its next steps.

Border dispute between Maine’s two oldest towns heads to court

York and Kittery are at odds over the exact location of a section of the border between the towns first drawn 370 years ago.

A boat, a pole, a dead husband. The tale of Katherine Cornish, Maine’s first execution for murder

Maine’s first murder trial, in 1644, was for a self-admitted adulteress who was found guilty with ample acknowledgment she was a “hussey” and a shocking lack of evidence she was a murderer.