By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and election officials in other states are urging voters to return absentee ballots as soon as possible ahead of the Nov.

By Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor Republican Steven Foster is running for his fourth term in the State House’s lower chamber, representing Dexter and several other towns west of Bangor.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine delegation asked the federal agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid coverage on Oct.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Partners for Peace has several events planned for Penobscot and Piscataquis counties.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff From the economy to lobster and abortion, the first debate between U.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff The first debate between U.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff U.

BREWER — Breast Cancer Awareness Month has long been associated with the color pink.

MILO – Reps.

WESTBROOK — Credit unions in Maine are deeply committed to addressing food insecurity in the state they call home.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Hunters are playing a critical role in the state’s ability to track the spread of insect-borne diseases in Maine.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff On paper, a Sept.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff U.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff When Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry noted in 2004 that he voted for military funding before he voted against it, then-President George W.

By Kathleen O’Brien, Bangor Daily News Staff Roughly 40,000 pounds of pet food and other supplies arrived in Hampden on Sept.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Northern Light Mayo Hospital is applying to the Maine Board of Emergency Medical Services to license Northern Light Mayo Hospital as a transporting service at the EMT level, permitted to provide care at the paramedic level on some calls, with a primary service area of Abbot, Athens, Atkinson, Barnard Twp, Blanchard Twp, Bowerbank, Bradford, Charleston, Corinna, Corinth, Dexter, Dover-Foxcroft, Elliottsville Twp, Exeter, Garland, Guilford, Kingsbury Plantation, Monson, Parkman, Ripley, Sangerville, Sebec, and Willimantic.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A mosquito-borne disease has been found in three more Maine counties.

The Maine Community Foundation’s Guy P.