By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff It’s an annual New England rite-of-passage: taking a drive through orange and red forests, snapping pictures and appreciating the show that the trees put on in the autumn.

GREENVILLE — The Greenville Select Board set the property tax commitment or mill rate for the 2025-26 fiscal year at $20.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Several months after the Piscataquis County Jail failed a Maine Department of Corrections inspection, everything is set after a recent visit.

By Susan Bard, Bangor Daily News Outdoors Editor Fall turkey season kicked off on Monday.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine is expanding access to COVID-19 vaccines.

September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month and thanks to a proclamation by Gov.

By Susan Bard, Bangor Daily News Outdoors Editor Anyone who spends time on the water knows the sinking feeling when something falls overboard.

Maine’s only mobile mammography unit will visit eight Maine towns this fall to improve access to lifesaving breast cancer screening in rural communities.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday that it had detected what it believes is the state’s first case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis of 2025.

By Wendy Watkins, Bangor Daily News Staff A seaplane crashed about 9 a.

WESTBROOK – Maine Credit Unions have released a powerful new video to warn Mainers — especially older adults — about the alarming rise in fraud.

By Stuart Hedstrom Staff Writer GREENVILLE — Two weeks after a request was made to the town of Greenville for $1 million to cover the remaining costs of the Yes Project community building, a non-binding advisory referendum question for the Nov.

By Peter McGuire, Maine Public Some trees in Maine are already losing their leaves, weeks ahead of peak fall foliage season.

By Annie Rupertus, Bangor Daily News Staff Northern Light Health has closed its walk-in care clinic in Bangor and is reducing its staff by 3 percent, the organization announced Sept.

By Annie Rupertus, Bangor Daily News Staff After finding out that Northern Light may cut ties with her health insurance provider, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Eliza Watson isn’t sure if she’ll be able to stay with the doctors that have been with her through eight months of cancer treatment.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Operations at the Piscataquis County Jail were not dangerous and there was not a crisis when the state briefly ceased operations and threatened to close the facility, the sheriff said on Sept.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Police in Maine must be sure someone has waived their constitutional rights to a lawyer before continuing to question them, the state’s highest court ruled.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Several days before the first meeting of the budget committee on Thursday Sept.