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A state of emergency remained in effect Thursday in Westbrook, Maine, where workers were assessing landslides that blocked the Presumpscot River the day before. Although the immediate threat of flooding has subsided, Westbrook Fire Chief Andrew Turcotte said the ground remains unstable where a 300-by-300-foot landslide occurred. On Wednesday morning, people living and working in an industrial area of...

A state of emergency remained in effect Thursday in Westbrook, Maine, where workers were assessing landslides that blocked the Presumpscot River.

A Maine city is under a state of emergency after a landslide blocked the Presumpscot River. Emergency management officials are monitoring the rising river, which was blocked by the landslide in Westbrook. Mayor Michael Foley declared the state of emergency, which will be in effect until further notice, on Wednesday. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch Wednesday….

A Maine lab will hire 1,200 new workers in a plan to produce 50 million new COVID-19 tests per month. Abbott Laboratories has reached a $750 million deal with the federal government to produce 150 million low-cost rapid tests that can detect coronavirus in just 15 minutes. According to the company, production of the credit-card-sized BinaxNOW COVID-19 AG Card Rapid…

Abbott Labs is promising to hire 1,200 people to make 50 million new coronavirus tests per month after reaching a deal with the federal government.

The inaugural season of a Maine concert venue has been rough for area residents, who have been complaining about the loud noise after just a few months. Alice Cooper, Flogging Molly, John Fogerty and Wiz Khalifa all made their way to Westbrook to perform over the summer at Maine Savings Pavilion at Rock Row.

Roughly two and a half months after the debut of a new concert venue, officials in Westbrook, Maine, are still fielding complaints from area residents. After the Maine Savings Pavilion at Rock Row hosted Alice Cooper and John Fogerty this past weekend, Westbrook city administrator Jerre Bryant said the respective shows each got about 40 complaints each. It’s a reduction...

A new Maine concert venue hosted its first show Sunday night. It was an opening some living nearby say was a little too loud. “If we’re doing concerts now they’ve got to find a way to manage this now,” Westbrook City Administrator Jerre Bryant said.

A new Maine concert venue hosted its first show Sunday night. It was an opening some living nearby say was a little too loud. As Anderson .Paak’s blend of soul, funk and other genres filled the new 8,000 plus seat Maine Savings Pavilion, people in Portland and Westbrook were picking up their phones, calling city police departments and texting each...

A new study has found some small cities in New England to be some of the least diverse in the country. According to a study by WalletHub – which ranked 501 cities in the U.S. based on socioeconomic, cultural, household and religious diversity – Bangor, Maine is the second least diverse city in the country, with only Provo, Utah ranking...

A huge floating ice disk has been found rotating in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine. Tina Radel, a city employee, told WCSH that birds have been sitting on the disk as it slowly turns counterclockwise. She called the disk a natural phenomenon.

Route 32 in Franklin was closed for hours Friday after a tanker truck that was carrying liquid nitrogen rolled off a tow truck, prompting evacuations and a long cleanup process.

When the superintendent in Westbrook, Maine, revealed that more than $17,000 was owed in unpaid school lunches, someone sent a check for $10,000 to help.

An anonymous donor has paid off more than half of a Maine school district’s student lunch debts.

A state police evidence team is at work as detectives try to determine the circumstances surrounding a shooting death in Westbrook, Maine.

A blizzard warning has been issued for the Boston area starting Friday

Kevin McCarthy, who starred in the science-fiction movie classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” has died at age 96.