The Maine Bureau of Veterans' Services is now accepting applications for the 2019 Disabled Veterans Controlled Moose Hunt, held annually on farmland ...

New Vineyard-based Maine Wood Concepts has been chosen again to provide the official souvenir Easter eggs for the White House's annual holiday ...

On the heels of last month's announcement by state Rep. Seth Berry (D-Bowdoinham) of a plan to create a statewide consumer-owned utility, an increasing ...

AUGUSTA — The Maine Bureau of Veterans' Services is accepting applications for the 2019 Disabled Veterans' Controlled Moose Hunt, held annually on ...

An unemployed New Jersey man who almost forgot his $273 million jackpot-winning Mega Millions lottery ticket at the store where he bought it says he's going ...

The Republican senator led a likely opponent who is not well-known in much of the state by 22 points in an early poll that brought good news for newly elected ...

The NCAA men's basketball tournament is in full swing, and with it comes March Madness bracket pools for cash, which is technically illegal in New Hampshire.

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine's moose hunters could see another bump in the number of hunting permits for the big game animals this year. Biologists in Maine ...

The Maine Bureau of Veterans' Services (MBVS) is now accepting applications for the 2019 Disabled Veterans Controlled Moose Hunt, held annually on ...

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is now accepting applications online for the 2019 Maine moose permit lottery. Applications for permits will ...

Two teams will hit the ice to 'Drop the Puck on Muscular Dystrophy' later this month.

Every year, millions of dollars are distributed to 32 Division I conferences by the NCAA based on what teams get into the tournament and how far they advance.

LISBON — Lisbon Community Federal Credit Union has raised a total of $15,000 to donate to the Ending Hunger in Maine campaign. Fundraisers throughout ...

Two teams will hit the ice to 'Drop the Puck on Muscular Dystrophy' this weekend.

DES MOINES, Iowa — An estimated $625 million jackpot is on the line in Saturday's Powerball drawing. It would be the seventh-highest U.S. lottery jackpot ever.

A Maine wildlife biologist said one of three bear cubs that nearly froze to death is doing well after being placed with a surrogate den.

LITCHFIELD — Dozens of athletes from as far away as California flocked to the Meadows Golf Club to spend their sunny Sunday morning competing in a unique ...

Austin Theriault qualified 26th in the 32-truck field and completed the race two laps down over the .526-mile short-track oval.. Maine news, sports, politics, ...

Kelly Syphers from Key Bank and Stephanie Oiler from Auxiliary were our guests in studio on Tuesday morning as we look ahead to the annual Winter Beach ...

FREEPORT — ReVision Energy and Maine Conservation Voters will hold an environmental-themed trivia night in Maine Beer Company's new taproom space ...

When worlds collide – 'Famous Men Who Never Lived' - Style What would you do if you found yourself in a world that was similar to your own, yet undeniably ...

For those who ever wanted to hunt a moose, but never had the chance, the time is now. And it's no wild moose chase. The Maine Bureau of Veterans' Services is ...

Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot is up to $550 million. MarketWatch reports it's the largest lottery jackpot of 2019 and the biggest since last October's $1.5 ...

Two award-winning vocalists, Denny Diamond and Maureen Christine, will bring their talents together to close out the day at Maine Township MaineStreamers ...

ROAD RACING. Runners gobbled up 4,000 bibs for the 22nd running of the TD Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race in 13 minutes, 30 seconds Thursday morning.

Gambling lobbyists in Maine are spending big to try and get a number of different gambling expansion laws pushed through.

Updated at 4:03 p.m. ET A New Jersey man is basking in the good fortune of a $273 million lottery jackpot win that wouldn't have happened without the.

Mega Millions players in Maine plunked down $1.3 million Friday in the hopes of winning the $1 billion jackpot. The Maine State Lottery said Saturday that in all ...

A South Portland man hit it big, winning half a million dollars from a $20 lottery ticket. Maine State Lottery officials said Lawrence Trudeau bought the winning ...

It's like winning the lottery twice: a new Colby dorm and now another $9 million destined for the downtown area. It was not luck, of course, but much hard work ...

KENNEBUNK — John Patuleia was able to get an early start on his Christmas shopping after winning $20,000 on a Maine Lottery scratch-off ticket.

AUGUSTA (WGME) - It's the season for holiday festivals and fundraisers and many of those events feature raffles, but the head of the state's Gambling Control ...

Episode 257. March 24, 2019. Tame the Track Snowmobile Tour season concludes in Caribou. The 2019 Tame the Track Snowmobile Tour eight race season ...

Though no one in Maine won the Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night, state lottery officials said more than 46,000 tickets sold in Maine were worth between ...

The deadline for lottery entry is 11:59 p.m. May 15.. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, and obituaries from the Bangor Daily News.

No, you can't just cash one of those oversized checks shown in all the winner photos.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Maine Lottery's “WPT” game were: 6C-7C-5D-3H-8H. (6C, 7C, 5D, 3H, 8H) ...

First, a question: Did you know there was a world record for the most people calling moose at the same time? The answer: Until now, there wasn't.. Maine news ...

Stephen Mardigan was in the news this week. He was sentenced to fifteen months in prison for running a gambling outfit in Portland. He was raking in the dough ...

Travis Mills was sitting on an airplane and his phone wouldn't stop ringing. The 31-year-old Army veteran was on his way back to Maine — the plane was taxiing ...

NASCAR has put a ban in place on drivers gambling on races, not that it was really a problem.

Jill Dorson takes us on a state-by-state tour of the sports betting landscape in 2018. First up in this five part series is the northeast.

LEWISTON — For Tina Crowley of Lewiston, last year's hunt was the hunt of a lifetime. A grandmother and avid hunter, she had her first grand slam, getting a ...

Democratic Gov.-elect Janet Mills named the second member of her Cabinet on Monday, nominating Kirsten Figueroa to be commissioner of the Department of ...

'Soupman' returns, Maine marijuana, moose call record and more: Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, ...

AUGUSTA – It's September in Maine, and that means the state's expanded deer hunt is getting started soon. There's a pair of big dates on the deer hunt ...

PORTLAND, Maine — The man at the center of an illegal sports betting ring in Maine's largest city was sentenced to 15 months, plus three years of supervised ...

Central Maine municipalities have spent the bulk of 2018 mulling over adult-use marijuana ordinances in anticipation of legislative action in the next session.

The United States Supreme Court overturned a sports gambling prohibition in May 2018. It opened the door for states to pass legislation allowing for sports ...

Three months after the Supreme Court overturned a law prohibiting states from legalizing sports betting, a few states have begun accepting wagers.

If you're one of those hunters who's a forgetful sort — the kind of person who sometimes wakes up the morning after the state closes the any-deer permit lottery, ...

Here's to happiness, health and a very prosperous new year, well, for at least one person in New York who won a Mega Millions jackpot worth an estimated ...

A super PAC's attack ad in the race for Maine's 2nd Congressional District claims that Democratic candidate Jared Golden voted for people to purchase tattoos, ...

The 2019 Maine moose permit lottery application process is now open with applications accepted online only.

The price of scallops caught in Maine waters is comparing well with previous years, according to early reports from harvesters.

The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital is one of four beneficiaries of a ticket raffle to next week's Super Bowl between the Patriots and the Rams in Atlanta.

Fireball Cinnamon Whisky has replaced Allen's Coffee Brandy as Maine's best-selling tipple. Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy had been the best-selling liquor in ...

ELLSWORTH — Like Maine scallops but don't want to pay $19 a pound or more? Feeling lucky? Come winter, maybe you can go catch your own. This week ...

John Ouellette of Fort Kent brought home a million dollars by scratching a winning ticket he purchased from the local Paradis Shop 'n Save grocery store in July.

Lottery fever continues to grow across the nation almost as fast as the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots. The two lotteries combined are currently valued at ...

Random chance will determine whether those who have reserved a permit to buy firewood from Acadia National Park will actually get any.. Maine news, sports ...

HOULTON, Maine — Following last week's decision by Maine's top court to not take a stand on the constitutionality of tribal gambling, the Houlton Band of ...

Matt Light played in enough big games in his 11-year career with the New England Patriots to know what it means when the home team wins. “There's an ...

AUGUSTA — A central Maine-based organization that runs a retreat for wounded veterans is receiving half-a-million dollars from the winner of a recent ...

HALLOWELL — Two downtown storefronts were awarded preference for marijuana retail stores after a lottery at Monday's City Council meeting, leaving one ...

Illegal sales of baby eels that caused last year's abrupt closure of Maine's elver fishery have resulted in criminal charges for two baby eel dealers and new rules ...

For the third time, the town of Scarborough will host the annual Moose Permit Lottery Drawing.

Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages & Lottery Operations is making Intellicheck's Age ID available to many state liquor licensees for free for a year.

If and when legalized sports betting comes to New England, how it's implemented likely will vary among the region's six states. In our series on sports gambling, ...

Maine's annual deer permit lottery is ready to begin, and there are thousands of more permits available this year than in years previous. The state is giving out ...

State officials say the applications can only be submitted online and the deadline is 11:59 p.m. on May 15.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission rejected an effort this week to expand Maine's lucrative elver, or glass eel, by increasing the annual quota by ...

The same four entities will be showing the state's boys and girls high school basketball tournament games this season either online or on TV.. Maine news ...

HALLOWELL — The Cannabis Healing Center will likely remain closed following a tense Monday public hearing, which prompted no council action to reverse ...

An introduction to the Maine State Museum and the state's history and a 'cozy' Maine murder mystery.

Feeling duped and disappointed, a New Gloucester man says the signed Patriots helmet he won in a charity raffle has since turned out to be a fake.

Good morning. Temperatures today will be in the 40s with mixed rain and snow showers. Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

BARCELONA, Spain — Those holding ticket number 03347 struck it rich Saturday when they won the top prize in Spain's famous Christmas lottery. The lottery ...

HALLOWELL — The city's longest-running medical marijuana store closed Tuesday after councilors denied its owner a local license to sell any type of marijuana ...

Massachusetts drivers may have a reputation for erratic moves on the road, but Mainers can claim bragging rights to being ranked the worst drivers in the U.S..

A *fresh* round of snow is heading into Maine later this week, and it could dump close to a foot of snow over most of the state in time for the Wednesday morning ...

Most of Maine is expected to be blanketed by 12-18 inches of *fresh* snow – maybe up to 2 feet in some areas – by the end of the day Sunday. The powerful ...

An investigation into illegal eel sales in Maine nets a guilty plea and lucrative license suspensions nearly a year later. Two elver dealers in the state now face ...

Maine's cold ones have been iced during the federal government shutdown. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is closed during the stalemate in ...

Danielle Conway, dean of the University of Maine School of Law, will leave the Portland campus in June to head Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. She will ...

if you're one of the thousands who applied for a shot at a coveted moose permit, your own special festival is coming right up.. Maine news, sports, politics, ...

Time catches up with all of us eventually, even world-famous ice discs.. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, and obituaries from the Bangor Daily News.

HALLOWELL — Citing a rule seeking people of “good moral character,” city councilors Monday night unanimously denied a recreational marijuana retail license ...

Proficiency-based diplomas, a toboggan race, gooey slime and more: Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.. Maine news, sports, politics, election ...

AUGUSTA — The deadline to participate in the lottery for one of Maine's growing number of deer permits is fast approaching. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ...

A winter storm warning has been issued for the entire state.. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, and obituaries from the Bangor Daily News.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine marijuana lovers hoping to put the "bake" back in clambake this summer might be out of luck.

The slayings of 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy in February and Somerset County Sheriff's deputy Cpl. Eugene Cole rattled Mainers and evoked strong emotions ...

Some ways to secure a seat at a restaurant in 2018: Visit the restaurant's website, visit a third-party website, email, use an app, call, stand in line, hire someone ...

Editor's note: This is a draft of Janet Mills' speech that was shared with the media prior to her inaugural address. Madam Chief Justice, Mr. President, Madam ...

The state's annual deer permit lottery is available, and there are thousands more permits available this year than in years previous. Maine's Any-Deer Permits ...

Maine is failing to fund programs proven to reduce death and disease caused by tobacco, despite receiving tens of millions of dollars a year to fight smoking, ...

The legalization of marijuana use for adults has achieved critical mass. Some 33 states have now approved marijuana for medical purposes, and another 10 ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Tuesday marks the lunar new year. It's often called Chinese New Year and it's as good an excuse as any to look into the city's history of ...

City officials crafted their adult-use ordinance to welcome cannabis businesses, relegating authority to the state.