The decline in COVID-19 deaths drove 84% of the increase in life expectancy, CDC researchers said.

Nearly 3,200 defendants have been charged with COVID-19 relief fraud, according to the U.S. Justice Department. About $1.4 billion in stolen pandemic aid has been seized.

The health care workforce shrank at the same time demand exploded, and patients say finding a provider is 'pretty much impossible.'

Appointments can be hard to get, but health officials are urging people to be persistent and get the vaccine to protect against the most severe effects of the disease.

Two employees of the jail in Madison also tested positive for the virus, and administrators have taken steps to prevent further spread.

London's free newspaper scene is unique. No other major global city has 3 free newspapers with such large circulations.

More than 20,000 Maine students were left out of the pandemic relief program that provided up to $120 per child to spend on food.

Patients with health insurance who paid for their vaccines should seek reimbursement.

Orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov starting Sept. 25, and the no-cost tests will be delivered for free by the United States Postal Service.

I could take time off from my job to recover without forgoing pay. Millions aren’t so fortunate.

The vaccine is recommended for everyone ages 6 months and older and some pharmacies are offering limited appointments for the shots.

While some individual schools and colleges have implemented temporary mask requirements, federal and state leaders don't appear to be considering widespread COVID-19 restrictions with the pandemic over.

Federal regulators approved the latest COVID-19 vaccine this week, and shots are expected to be available within days.

Experts worry that immunity from previous vaccinations and infections is fading in many people, and a new shot would save many lives.

A scathing federal report has found New Jersey's two state-run veterans homes were unprepared to keep residents safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, violating their constitutional rights to reasonable care while in state custody.

Hospitalizations remain flat for now but are expected to increase this fall and winter.

According to the investigation, former Sen. Andy Sanborn fraudulently obtained $844,000 in funding from the Small Business Administration between December 2021 and February 2022.

In many people, long COVID may actually be ‘long Lyme,’ and better diagnosis and treatment of both diseases are vital – especially in Maine, with the nation’s highest Lyme rate.

Latest booster shot targeting the Eris variant should be available in late September or early October.

Attributing an increase in cases to people moving indoors doesn’t make much sense. What does?

The 39 public libraries are scattered around the state and will receive $5,000 to $100,000 apiece.

Homeless kids often fell through the cracks during the tumult of the COVID pandemic, when many schools struggled to keep track of families with unstable housing.

Employees could face disciplinary action, including being fired, if they do not comply, a company memo says.

Based in Guilford, Puritan had become one of the top two swab manufacturers in the world, but orders have decreased dramatically as the COVID-19 pandemic has receded, forcing the company to downsize.

The caseload in Kennebec County courts is 67% higher than it was pre-pandemic, with 2,343 cases pending.

Sixty-six cases of COVID-19 have been reported since May 14 among staff and residents at St. Joseph's Rehabilitation and Residence.

Three judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court's decision to throw out a legal challenge to the state's COVID-19 mandate for health care workers.

While the White House has threatened to veto Republican’s debt ceiling bill, the administration has signaled a willingness to consider other budget caps.

The state will still update COVID-19 case counts, hospitalizations and deaths.

The pandemic has been on a downward trend for more than a year, and most countries have returned to life before COVID-19.

Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11.

Masks are no longer required at MaineHealth or Northern Light Health medical facilities statewide, effectively putting an end to the emergency measure in most situations 3 years after the pandemic began.

The move by Maine's second largest health care network comes as the number of hospital patients with COVID-19 has dropped to the lowest level since August 2021.

The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.

Nearly a third of all Mainers ages 5 years and older have received the omicron-targeting bivalent booster shot compared to less than 18% of individuals nationwide.

Sunday's announcement represents the second time Maine's governor has contracted COVID-19 within the past year.

Officials say the 2022 maternal death rate is on track to get close to pre-pandemic levels. But that's not great: The rate before COVID-19 was the highest it had been in decades.

Long after Maine's first case of coronavirus, communal activities and gatherings are reaching pre-pandemic levels again, though troubling remnants of isolation persist.

U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus.

The system is still encouraging community members to get vaccinated and boosted.

Did COVID-19 originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab?

A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year.

Lawmakers who negotiated the payments say they believed the pandemic-era aid would be tax-free, but a Maine Revenue Service official says no such assurance was made.

Hundreds of thousands of students who have dropped off public school rolls since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are unaccounted for.

Even though some taxpayers already have filed, the state is one of nearly two dozen where federal officials have yet to determine whether the payments are taxable.

Despite objections from public health advocates, a legislative committee voted Wednesday in favor of permanently legalizing the pandemic-era practice of to-go cocktails, wine, and beer.

The system president says high vaccination rates in the state and improved outcomes for people who contract COVID-19 played a role in the decision.

Nirav Shah, director of Maine's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, will be second in command at the U.S. CDC starting next month.