In the spring of 1973, 14-year-old Diane Madden took her first big trip, to Washington, D.C., with her aunt, uncle and cousin ...

GORHAM, Maine — On Tuesday, voters here are trying something never done before in the country on this scale: Instead of voting for one candidate in the race for governor, they’re ranking their ...

June 25, 1789: Hancock and Washington counties, the fourth and fifth Maine counties, are set off from Lincoln County, temporarily making the map of Maine counties look like five north-to-south ...

Nov. 2, 1789: President George Washington, on his only visit to Maine – which is then part of Massachusetts – fishes for cod off the coast at Kittery, catching two of them. He also visits the ...

Aug. 9, 1842: The U.S. signs the Treaty of Washington, or Webster-Ashburton Treaty, with the United Kingdom, establishing what is now the boundary between the United States and Canada, including ...

“We wanted to respect that history,” Stokes said. “It felt like we were doing this for generations to come.” In South Portland, Maine, the sun is the star ...

The race was one of the closest in the country and the closest in Maine’s history. The Associated Press called the race for Golden at 8.50 p.m. Nov. 15, 10 days after the election.