Maine Turnpike

A Massachusetts driver died Friday night after crashing his pickup truck on the Maine Turnpike over the Saco River, officials said. Nathan Kennedy, a 21-year-old from Halifax, Mass., was thrown from his Ford pickup truck after it hit a guard rail on the highway driving south over the Saco River bridge, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety. The…

A tractor-trailer went off the road on the Maine Turnpike on Thursday due to weather conditions. And it won’t be going anywhere too soon. State police said the crash occurred around 6 a.m. on Interstate 95 south in Etna, which is about 20 miles outside of Bangor in the central part of the state. The tractor-trailer lost control and went…

A man was seriously injured after two trucks crashed in Kittery, Maine, on Thursday morning, officials said. A box truck that was traveling southbound on the Maine Turnpike rear-ended a fully loaded cement truck near the New Hampshire border, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety. The box truck’s driver, Boston resident Manuel Depina-Gonolves, 22, was severely injured in…

Detours, noise and a decent amount of traffic are on the way for people planning a trip through a certain section of Maine highway this weekend. Beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday evening, all lanes of Interstate 295 will close as the approximately 60-year-old Veranda Street Bridge, which roughly 55,000 to 75,000 travelers use daily, is demolished and replaced. That…

A major stretch of highway in Portland, Maine, will be closed while a bridge is being replaced.

Mainers are salting and sanding their way out of an icy day. From Biddeford and Berwick to Portland, Augusta and Bangor, hundreds of businesses, schools and other workplaces were closed Wednesday. The ice reduced speeds on the Maine Turnpike for part of the morning and clung to trees and sidewalks in Greater Portland into Wednesday night. “I’d rather have 20…

Hundreds of business, schools and other workplaces were closed Thursday after freezing rain left a glaze of ice across Maine.

A trip on the highway to most places in Maine just got a little more expensive.