Maine Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins are often split on issues — after all, she’s a Republican and he’s an independent who usually votes with Democrats.

But on the government funding, they’re on the same page.

ROCKLAND – An ordinance prohibiting involvement in immigration enforcement operations, and an ordinance allowing a Student Representative to serve on Rockland City Council are two of the items coming up on the November Council meeting agenda, to be introduced at the Agenda-Setting meet…

In the Oct. 28 Maine Student Mock Election, 78 participating schools chose up to three provided questions to use for their election. 29 schools across the state reported results from 4,254 student votes. 

MIDCOAST—People are scared.

On November 4, Belfast voters will consider several candidates to fill two Belfast seats on the Regional School Unit 71 (Belfast, Belmont, Morrill, Searsmont and Swanville) School Board.

International Women of Service Organizations, International and American Women of Service Pageant held in Orlando, Florida, crowned 21 outstanding girls and women from around the country with International and American titles.

On November 4, Belfast voters will consider several candidates to fill two Belfast seats on the Regional School Unit 71 (Belfast, Belmont, Morrill, Searsmont and Swanville) School Board.

On November 4, Rockland voters will consider three candidates to fill two Rockland seats on the Regional School Unit 13 (Cushing, Owls Head, Rockland, South Thomaston and Thomaston) School Board.

Maverick Street will be closed for most of the day Monday, October 27, from Birch Street to North Main Street for road work.

Ah, the spooky old house. That Halloween icon — the abandoned home, once a place where a family lived, now just the dwelling of ghosts. Every neighborhood needs a haunted house.

Two people were injured and another driver is facing charges after a multi-vehicle crash on I-95, Friday afternoon, Oct. 24, 2025.

ROCKLAND — The small groups that formed next to the Ferry Terminal on Friday morning speculated as to how a vehicle on its side at the bottom of a cliff-like hill would be removed. Would one or more of the sailboats at Knight Marine Services need to be relocated due to being an unexpected barricade on the opposite rim of the scene? Would a crane be needed?

On Thursday, October 23, 2025, at approximately 4:25 p.m., Maine State Troopers from the Central Field Troop responded to 1580 Bailey Road in Knox for a report of a shooting.

Both Senators Susan Collins and Angus King have weighed in on the SNAP program November cuts in response to an Oct. 10 letter from the  U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Ronald Ward, Acting Associate Administrator of the country's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Food and Nutri…

Approximately 100 people turned out Saturday morning, October 18, to happily declare allegiance to the United States and loudly denounce the actions of President Trump.  

OWLS HEAD (10/23/2025 at 8:35 a.m.) — The Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the cause of a structure fire in an approximate 30' X 150' workshop that had once been a barn at 160 North Shore Drive, in Owls Head.

Wiscasset's non-disclosure agreement with whoever is eying putting a data center off Old Ferry Road obligates neither party to make further agreements, or to "proceed with any possible relationship or other project," the NDA states.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) released the following statement Oct. 22 in response to the Trump Administration demolishing the historic East Wing of the White House in order to build a $200 million, 90,000 square-foot ballroom:

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), is issuing a Do Not Eat Wildlife Consumption Advisory for a new area in portions of the towns of Knox, Th…

The Drug Enforcement Administration, in collaboration with nearly 4,000 law enforcement partners across the country, will host the 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, October 25, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The town of Warren Select Board voted unanimously at its last meeting October 15 for work to begin on a green burial cemetery.  It will be an extension of the Newcomb Cemetery, located off of Patterson Mill Road.

Warren’s Cemetery Committee and Sexton have been working on the project proposal for several months.

ROCKLAND – The following cases were closed in Knox County Unified Court Oct. 7-17.

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Belfast's annual Winter Parking Ban goes into effect on November 1and remains in effect until April 30. Any vehicle parked overnight on any city street for more than one hour between the hours of Midnight and 6 a.m. will be ticketed and/or towed at the owner’s expense.

ROCKLAND — The Knox County Commissioners will convene Thursday, Oct. 23, at noon to address one agenda item: Act to Move Forward with the Process of Implementing an Interim Budget for Fiscal Year 2026.

Due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has notified every state that November funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation's largest anti-hunger program, will not be issued at this tim…

Most Maine homes and small businesses can expect the cost of their electricity supply to go up in January.