The Maine Highlands region is a great place to live in many ways – fresh air, clean water, green spaces and friendly, small towns.

YARMOUTH — Maine Preservation is excited to announce the launch of Drive ME Historic Tours in commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine will need to move roughly 23,000 people into the swing 2nd Congressional District from the reliably liberal 1st District after much of northern and western Maine lost population over the past decade.

HAMPDEN – Business Lending Solutions, LLC, announces the addition of another new credit union partner, bringing the company’s total number of partners to 15 credit unions across the state.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine’s meager population growth over the past decade was almost entirely driven by the southern part of the state, while much of northern and western Maine lost population, new data from the U.

Exeter — Bus #11 Steve Currie: Begins at approx.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff An assistant U.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously called on Treasurer John Hiatt to resign immediately after his arrest last week on a possession of child pornography charge.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Dexter woman died Monday evening in a single vehicle rollover, according to Dover-Foxcroft Police.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Mainers should now wear masks in all but three counties regardless of their vaccination status amid the rising summer surge in COVID-19 cases.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Pine Tree Hospice’s 14th annual Golf Open is co-hosted this year by internationally known Puritan Medical Products of Guilford.

By Sam Schipani, Bangor Daily News Staff Since 1996, the state of Maine and its municipalities have received more than $94 million in brownfield redevelopment funds from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up contaminated sites like those found in former mill towns.

By David Marino Jr.

Before the pandemic, in any given year, one in five people in the U.

Community members from across Piscataquis County will be given an opportunity to shape priorities  for community health at a special forum aimed at providing input to the region’s public health and healthcare  organizations.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County Treasurer and Bangor School Committee member John Hiatt has been released from the Penobscot County Jail after posting $1,000 cash bail.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Police have arrested Penobscot County Treasurer and Bangor School Committee member John Hiatt for the second time in three months, this time on a child pornography charge, according to Bangor police.

By David Marino Jr.