Maine’s best-selling spirit is expanding. Boston Brands of Maine, the maker of Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey, will move to a 24/7 operation at its Lewiston facility, according to News Center Maine.

Several New Englanders have been among the scores of Americans who made it off coronavirus-affected cruises just to be put in quarantine again amid an outbreak prompting emergency measures the world over. A Gorham, Maine, woman is stuck in a hotel in Cambodia, unsure when she’ll be able to travel home because, of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Opal Stau...

A missing Maine woman’s body has been found submerged in her car in the Ossipee River, police say. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s office says that a passerby at the intersection of Federal Road and Elm Street in Parsonsfield spotted Sarah McCarthy’s vehicle just before 1 p.m. on Sunday, NBC affiliate WCSH-TV reports. Evidence on scene ...

A New Hampshire man has died in a snowmobile crash in the White Mountain National Forest in Maine. Authorities say 49-year-old Paul Whitaker, of Conway, was riding south on Route 113 in Batchelders Grant Township when he went off the trail and hit a tree late Friday afternoon. Mark Latti, communications director for the Maine Department of Inland F...

A Maine city is close to adopting an extensive rabies prevention plan after a series of fox attacks. Town leaders in Bath. Maine, are moving towards using traps to catch and euthanize certain animals so they can be tested for the dangerous disease.

Dozens of Maine residents told the state they’re opposed to the building of a large salmon farm in the coastal city of Belfast. The proposal from Norwegian-owned Nordic Aquafarms would create a $500 million salmon farm that uses land-based facilities to grow the fish for human consumption.

One president’s tweet is another man’s business idea. Next week, a Maine couple plans to open a new coffee shop in Rockland that’s dedicated to President Donald Trump and inspired by a word in one of his viral tweets. Covfefe Coffee and Gifts will be “a place to purchase goods and conversate without negativity or fear of bei...

Could a defrocked priest twice convicted of child sex abuse get a new trial in Maine? That’s one eventual outcome that a lawyer for former priest Ronald Paquin, who is currently serving a 16 year sentence in Maine for abuse in the 1980s, says could happen after an appeal to Maine’s Supreme Court. On Wednesday, attorney Rory McNamara and...

Police in Augusta, Maine arrested a person for driving a lawn mower under the influence this week — in the dead of winter. According to the police department’s Facebook page, it is not uncommon to arrest a lawn-mower driver for operating under the influence. Although the lawn-mower OUI was not a first, police said the arrest was atypical for winter...

Wardens say a Massachusetts man survived sliding and tumbling down a 300-foot cliff face when he lost his footing over the weekend in Dixfield, Maine. Officials say 54-year-old Robert Burns, of Waltham, Massachusetts, suffered numerous injuries and was airlifted early Sunday to Central Maine Medical Center. He was listed in fair condition Monday at...

Police in Lewiston, Maine, said a 21-year-old woman who had been missing for almost two weeks has been found safe. Zakiya Sheikh of Lewiston had last been seen on Saturday, Feb. 1 getting into a taxi at Boston Logan International Airport. Lewiston police initially issued a description and asked for information about her whereabouts on Monday, but s...

The federal government has awarded about $2.8 million to a Maine science lab for projects that will focus on genetics.

Maine is accepting applications for one of its most popular fall hunting traditions, the annual moose hunt.