I've talked and written about this topic so much I bet you're tired of hearing about it. It's legal sports betting here in Maine. While I am still a bit ticked off it's not ...

The Maine Lottery on Monday singled out three stores, including two in southern Maine, for being top sellers of lottery tickets in Maine. Those stores paid more ...

Mental health advocates warn that Maine does not have enough resources to address gambling addiction as state lawmakers seriously consider expanding ...

YORK COUNTY — Anna M. Mountain of Lebanon has won $100,000 playing Maine Lottery's Right on the Money scratch-off game. She purchased the winning ...

One of Maine's newest licensed craft breweries doesn't have a tasting room, and you can't even buy a pint of beer to sip on site. What Frosty Bottom Brewing ...

STATEWIDE (WGME) - The deadliest and most destructive fire in California history was caused by electrical transmission lines, according to an announcement ...

Who knows? You might end up hearing your own name drawn at Cabela's in Scarborough on June 8.. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, and ...

Volunteers will be raffling off a beautiful motorcycle this weekend in Bangor and Brewer, to benefit Maine Veterans.

TOPSHAM, Maine — Some fans of the hit HBO television show 'Game of Thrones' watched the shows final episode for free Sunday night at a chain of cinemas ...

AUGUSTA (WGME) -- A bill to buy Maine's two largest electric companies drew a standing-room only crowd in Augusta on Tuesday afternoon. L. D. 1646 would ...

STATEWIDE (WGME) - More than 900000 pounds of unused prescription drugs will be burned or destroyed after this weekend's National Drug Take-Back Day.

AUGUSTA, Maine - The deadline for Maine moose hunters to apply for a permit has arrived, but exactly how many permits will be available is still undecided.

Inspector Irene Warner checks Fireball Cinnamon Whisky bottles Wednesday on the line at Boston Brands of Maine in Lewiston. LEWISTON — Wearing gloves ...

Gov. Janet Mills signed a number of bills into law last week, including several related to Maine businesses.

ELLSWORTH—Frenchman Bay Conservancy (FBC) has been awarded $15000 to create a parking area and improve a public trail on the Jordan Homestead ...

Maine wildlife regulators will likely make a decision by the end of the month on a proposal to increase the number of moose hunting permits.

PROSPECT HARBOR — American Nobel laureate and novelist John Steinbeck famously quipped that because the poor do not see themselves as exploited ...

Marcia Osborne was downstairs that morning, her husband and their son still asleep, when the smoke alarm in the upstairs hallway of their Old Town home ...

Robert Stuart said he was feeling lucky when he bought the $25 ticket – and light-headed when he won $1 million. By jswinconeck@timesrecord.com | on May ...

PORTLAND. Writers and publishers group names fellowship winner. The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance announced that Megan Shea of Georgetown is the ...

Never in his nearly three decades of paving, plowing and sanding roads for the Maine Department of Transportation did Robert Stuart ever dream that he would ...

BREWER - A special dinner and auction to help fund the ministry of The Brick Church, 126 Union St. in Bangor, is scheduled for Sunday, May 19, from 4-8 p.m. ...

The deadline to apply to participate in the 2019 moose hunting season is Wednesday. For the second year in a row, the hunting season could expand.

The 2019 NBA Draft Lottery shook things up in a big way.

Signed by the Governor, Senate Bill 66 requires that all malt liquor, wine, hard cider and low-alcohol spirits products imported to, exported from or sold in Maine ...

Joe Arsenault and Nick Claudel, both military veterans from Belgrade, are being recognized as 'Heroes Among Us' by the Boston Celtics after they saved a truck ...

MADISON, Wis. — A 24-year-old Wisconsin man stepped forward Tuesday to claim a $768 million Powerball prize, the nation's third-largest lottery jackpot, ...

Murder and mayhem on MDI – 'Bar Harbor Babylon' - Buzz While it certainly remains a significant destination, the Mount Desert Island of today is viewed very ...

Maine's first true sports betting bill was filed this week. Following a shell measure that was introduced in January, the legislation, LD 1348, has an official House ...

Mainers could put down real money on the March Madness tournament or Super Bowl as early as next year. At least three bills to tax and regulate betting on ...

The immigration plan, announced by President Donald Trump last week, is un-American. It disappoints everyone who dreams of moving to American.. Maine ...

Maine is considering five sports betting bills that take different approaches. Two have had a full presentation to the House, three remain in draft.

Daniel Parker, commander of Forest J. Pare Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1285, will march in the Memorial Day parade May 27 and speak afterward at ...

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

PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) Check your Powerball tickets! Though no one in Maine won the latest Powerball jackpot, one ticket sold in Maine is worth a nice ...

The Rangeley Lakes Chamber of Commerce and Rangeley Health and Wellness held its third annual Best Dog on Earth Day event, a celebration of dogs and ...

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 ...

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ALFRED — David R. Burns of Alfred is a happy man this week, courtesy of the Maine Lottery. Burns won $10,000 playing the Maine Lottery's Ultimate Millions ...

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 ...

Santa was kind to a South Portland man in December. The Maine Lottery says the 50X The Cash ticket he bought at the Circle K store on Maine Street in South ...

KENNEBUNK — Chad A. Diffin of Kennebunk is wearing a big smile these days thanks to the Maine Lottery. Diffin won $50,000 playing the Maine Lottery's ...

The NCAA men's basketball is in full swing, and with it comes the innocuous, yet technically illegal, practice of filling out brackets.If a majority of legislators in the ...

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A proposed tribal casino in Maine is opposed by leaders of commercial casinos and business groups, who say the soon-to-open Encore in Massachusetts will ...

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Michael P. Budd of Old Orchard Beach won $10,000 playing the Maine Lottery's Ultimate Millions $25 Scratch-Off Game.

BANGOR (BDN) -- A former East Millinocket woman, who became the largest single lottery winner in U. S. history in 2013, is suing her son for allegedly ...

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 ...

SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. — The number of billionaires in South Carolina may have doubled overnight — at least before taxes — after a lottery ticket sold in the state ...

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 ...

Long considered one of Maine's few remaining “dry towns,” Allagash got a little wetter over the weekend when voters passed two articles to allow alcohol ...

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.

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 ...

LYMAN — A Lyman resident is enjoying 2019 after winning big on a Maine State Lottery scratch-off ticket. Richard M. Olin of Lyman collected $20,000 from a $2 ...

April 13, 2019. A 90-year-old Maine native who won a $278 million Powerball lottery in 2013 is suing her son for mismanaging her money. Gloria C. Mackenzie ...

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

The Maine Lottery recorded its best 12 months ever in the fiscal year 2018 that just ended, setting records for sales, prize money, commissions to retailers and ...

Jaren Rivas, bar manager at Tipo, mixes cocktails made with Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy and Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey. Staff photo by Ben McCanna.

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 ...

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

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The state has chosen four fishermen from eastern Maine from almost 1300 applicants who sought the first new scallop fishing licenses to be issued in Maine in ...

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

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.

(BDN) -- Last June, when thousands of people flocked to the Skowhegan Fairgrounds for the Maine moose permit lottery, many took part in an offbeat attempt to ...

If approved, the number of permitted hunters would jump from 2500 to 2820.. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, and obituaries from the Bangor Daily ...

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 ...

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

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

DEER ISLE — Two Hancock County lobstermen are among the four lucky winners of a Department of Marine Resources lottery for the opportunity to get a.

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 ...

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

Lawmakers are being asked to revise the design of the Maine state flag by adopting a version first used in 1901.. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, ...

The Maine State Police detective who died after he was struck on the side of I-95 in Hampden on Wednesday morning had served about six-and-a-half years on ...

MOUNT DESERT — A man purchasing lottery tickets at a local store the evening of March 20 realized when he got home that one lottery ticket was missing,

The Gronk Foundation will team up with the Light Foundation to send fans to Super Bowl LIII and benefit local hospitals. By Mike LoweStaff Writer. Follow on ...

Our weekly tour of the legislative landscape for US sports betting bills discovers legislation filed or laws enacted across more than half of all states.

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

SACO — A resident of Saco has taken home a six-figure prize as a winner of a September Maine Lottery scratch-off ticket. Leo B. Flynn of Saco won the ...

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.

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

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.

The State Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations will make an app called Age ID available to 150 on-premises licensees.. Maine news, sports ...

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 online application process is fast and simple and you receive instant confirmation that you have successfully entered the lottery. To get started, visit ...

A former East Millinocket woman, who became the largest single lottery winner in U.S. history in 2013, is suing her son for allegedly mismanaging her $278 ...

With 1,054 people belting out their best call, last year's Skowhegan festival set a new Guinness World Record mark. By Doug HarlowMorning Sentinel. Follow on ...

The 2019 Maine moose permit lottery application process is now open. Applications for the moose permit lottery will be accepted online only. The online ...

Maine Supreme Court says question on tribal casinos was “not of a serious nature,” thwarting Representative Henry Bear of the Houlton Band of Maliseet ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina woman who won $878 million in the biggest jackpot payout to one winner in U.S. history wants to share her windfall with ...

The New Hampshire House passed a bill to allow for 10 brick-and-mortar sportsbooks and statewide mobile betting through the state lottery.

Maine's top spellers will compete for the right to represent the state at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May. The spelling bee takes place on Saturday, ...

The Sportsman's Alliance of Maine proposed significant changes in the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund, in a bill sponsored for SAM by Senator Russell Black.

There's a natural progression that often takes place in the restaurant industry. A chef opens a restaurant. If it does well, she opens another one, and then maybe ...

The gap is reshaping life here in myriad ways, from shrinking the workforce to intensifying the demand for elderly services, and it will only widen in the coming ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In what is becoming an annual problem, visa complications are forcing some Maine businesses to consider curtailing services as the tourist season gets ...

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Marine Resources is announcing a license lottery for four scallop drag licenses. The scallop drag license lottery will.