More pet owners giving up animals for adoption amid housing shortage

Finding apartments that accept pets is especially difficult in the current tight market, forcing owners to make hard choices.

Maine Muslim families celebrate Eid al-Adha

They gathered Sunday in Westbrook to mark the special day, which honors the Prophet Ibrahim's devotion to Allah.

James Weldon Johnson celebration set for Wiscasset

Maine Bicycle coalition to hold Women’s Ride June 4

Kari Morissette, director of Church of Safe Injection, dead at 33

In announcing Morissette's passing, peers described her as "a fierce advocate and friend to people who use drugs, fighting for their health, rights and dignity."

Westbrook’s famed ice disk is taking shape again in the Presumpscot River

Round and round it goes, a replay of 2019, when disk-peepers were a boon for Westbrook businesses during the slow winter season.

COVID-19 home test maker with site in Westbrook plans to boost production

Abbott Laboratories, which makes the BinaxNOW rapid test, says it now produces more than 50 million tests per month and plans to raise that number to 70 million in January.

Roadrunner that hitchhiked cross country to Maine is back in Nevada

The stowaway bird was flown back to Las Vegas thanks to efforts by Avian Haven and Nevada wildlife officials.

Beep beep! This roadrunner hitched a ride from Las Vegas to Maine

Avian Haven in Freedom is working with wildlife officials to get the bird native to the Southwest back to Nevada.

Gravestone dated 1840 found in middle of Westbrook street

Police suspect the marker may have been removed from a cemetery in Yarmouth.