By Aislinn Sarnacki, Bangor Daily News Staff Cross-country skiing, also known as Nordic skiing, is a way to explore the snowy wilderness while enjoying aerobic exercise.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Cindy Ranta has been the primary bulla baker at Monson’s Finnish Farmers Club for years now — her dessert bread is always a staple of the group’s dances and potlucks.

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff This story will be updated.

By the Maine Monitor On a sunny September morning in Dover-Foxcroft, more than 50 cars stretched from the Piscataquis Regional Food Center three blocks down North Street an hour before a food distribution event was to begin.

By Lynne Fort, Bangor Daily News Staff Another Mainers has died as health officials on Saturday reported 159 new coronavirus cases across the state.

By Carol Belanger On a windy, bitter cold day in December of 2017, I was just getting acquainted with my first DSLR camera, so any opportunity for pictures was an exciting time to learn for me.

By Steve Hirshberg September trout fishing in Maine is mostly an under-practiced sport.

By Eesha Pendharkar, Bangor Daily News Staff Husson University in Bangor and a Bible college in rural Penobscot County are among the sites of new coronavirus outbreaks the state’s public health agency announced Friday as the state continues to see an unprecedented surge of COVID-19 cases.

Through a partnership with the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), EMDC is distributing $19 million in COVID-19 relief to businesses and nonprofits in Eastern Maine.

To the Editor; I hope readers of the BDN caught Christy Lockhart’s letter to the editor published Nov.