Andre Cushing News Today

There are piles of brick, cinder blocks, metal scraps, and rebar within the chain link fence at the corner of Hammond and Court streets.

Demolishing the building creates a clean slate that's hopefully more attractive for whoever ends up developing it, Commissioner Dave Marshall said.

Funding for the 2024 county budget will come from a municipal tax increase of 8.5 percent.

Political groups funded by the utilities and their parents have spent 30 times more than Our Power, the group pushing the referendum, through the end of September.

Maine’s attorney general’s office hasn’t acknowledged an unjustified use of deadly police force since 1990.

“We’ve got pictures of the cows everywhere except in their pens,” Unorganized Territory Director George Buswell said.

"The annual costs of PFAS damage may run to more than $15 trillion globally."

By Andre Cushing There has been much publicity surrounding the presence of PFAS in our farmland, waters, products and food — among many other things. There is rightly great concern.

"PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are at the foundation of our high-tech, 21st-century economy."

This fall, Mainers could cut ties with their utilities. The companies are buying influence to try to stay in power.