By Eesha Pendharkar, Bangor Daily News Staff Since Maine schools reopened for the fall, students and staff have had to wear face coverings throughout the day, keep their distance from others, wash their hands frequently and often stick with the same, small group throughout the school day to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading.

By Eesha Pendharkar, Bangor Daily News Staff Three of Maine’s top Democrats greeted President Donald Trump with sharp criticism for his last-minute visit to the Bangor area on Sunday, with Gov.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff LEVANT — President Donald Trump descended on an apple orchard Sunday in a pitch to 2nd Congressional District voters touting his June action to allow fishing in a national marine monument southeast of Cape Cod where few, if any, Maine fishermen fish.

The Piscataquis Observer’s Stuart Hedstrom picked up a pair of honors among the state’s smaller weekly publications division from the Maine Press Association in the 2020 MPA Better Newspaper Contest on Oct.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine has long been a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts who in winter have gone downhill skiing, snowmobiling, and ice fishing.

By Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff Mainers have been so deluged with confusing absentee ballot request forms during the 2020 campaign season that the state’s top election official is considering putting forward legislation to ban them for third-party groups.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff U.

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By Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff Gun control and taxes were a main focus of the candidates in the second debate between the candidates in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District on Wednesday as old legislative records came back to the forefront of the race.

By Lynne Fort, Bangor Daily News Staff Janet Mills announced on Wednesday a new initiative that would bring millions in grant money to Maine communities.

AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is advising motorists to be aware of vehicle registration deadlines, as Gov.

Maine’s Congressional Delegation and Gov.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — At the present time the Piscataquis County budget and Unorganized Territory (UT) budget follow different timelines with the county spending plan based on a calendar year and the UT budget running from July 1 to June 30.

By Caitlin Andrews and Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff Vice President Mike Pence made a targeted pitch to conservative and evangelical voters in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District at a rally in Hermon on Monday, touting President Donald Trump’s trade policies and saying an “era of economic surrender is over.

More than 260 Maine veterans, representing each of Maine’s 16 counties, announced their support for U.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff In 1994, the first female gubernatorial nominee in Maine from either major party faced what a Bangor Daily News reporter characterized as a “series of setbacks” that included disagreements with right-wing Republicans and a rumor directly related to her status as a woman candidate.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine got its first widespread accumulation of snow Saturday morning in the western mountains, but the vast majority of it is not expected to survive the weekend.

By John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News Outdoors Editor Years ago, when I first heard about trail cameras, digital photographic technology was still new, and my brother-in-law — a handy sort of guy who can build nearly anything out of nearly nothing — was explaining how he was cobbling together his own cameras, building weatherproof boxes, and strapping to trees in order to keep tabs on his local deer herd.