An Old Orchard Beach man with a history of convictions for robbery has been sentenced to serve 20 years in state prison for robbing a Biddeford cheese shop on Dec. 17, 2023. York County District ...

Some teens are good at school, others are good at sports. Then there’s Henry Mahoney, who excels at both. Mahoney, a Thornton Academy senior from Saco, recently received the Frank J. Gaziano Memorial ...

On Tuesday the City of Biddeford had a workshop on housing, an issue Mayor Marty Grohman described as “one of the defining challenges” leaders in the city and state-wide are currently facing. “We have ...

The oldest bookstore in the state will be opening a shop in Saco this year. Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops will be opening a bookstore next to Shaw's in the Saco Valley Shopping Center, 4 Scammon St ...

The Saco Bay Sunset Rotary club honored five people Tuesday night with the Paul Harris Fellow award. The Paul Harris Fellow Award, named after Rotary International’s founder Paul Harris, is one of the ...

The owners of Fish and Whistle in Biddeford are 2025 James Beard Awards semifinalists. {more}} The James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards were established in 1990, with the first awards ...

Maine State Police are investigating a fatal turnpike accident that resulted in the death of two people. Around 6 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13, Maine State Police responded to a fatal car crash on ...

This Saco Bay News story is part of a multi-newsroom collaboration spearheaded by The Maine Monitor and the Investigative Reporting Workshop examining how Maine counties are spending their ARPA funds.

At one point in time, the American chestnut tree once reached 100 feet in height and occupied over 200 million acres of land in the eastern United States. Its wood was valued as a great building ...

Local developers are heeding the call for more housing. And for those tenants who can afford it, relief is on the way. The Saco Planning Board convened on Jan. 30 for the fifth time since mid-October ...

You’ve watched television cop shows like ‘Blue Bloods’ or the reality shows like ‘Cops’ and wondered “is this what being a law enforcement officer is really like?” Now, you have a chance to find out, ...