Penquis is inviting community members to participate in public information sessions to share their input on local transportation needs.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine has a small population and a part-time Legislature, but state leaders and lawmakers have plenty of big problems to tackle in 2025.

Maine’s only mobile mammography unit is about to achieve another new milestone: walk-in screenings offered to all women, without an appointment.

By Nicole Ogrysko, Maine Public In its first year of operation, Maine’s state-sponsored Roth IRA savings plan has enrolled nearly 12,000 workers.

By Leela Stockley, Bangor Daily News Staff Nearly 5,000 households in Piscataquis County were without power on Monday afternoon.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff More than a year after a leaked federal government memo connected illegal marijuana grow houses in Maine to Chinese organized crime, “well below” 100 such properties are believed to be left in the state, according to the U.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Here in Maine we’ve come to expect that every business that sells beer — from gourmet markets to grocery stores to corner gas stations — will have at least one type of craft beer.

Jane Stitham of Dover-Foxcroft, Maria Wooten of Bowerbank, and Thomas Watt of Greenville have joined the Maine Community Foundation’s Piscataquis County Committee.

BANGOR — Husson University Online is pleased to celebrate the academic achievements of students recently named to the president’s and dean’s lists for term 5 of the 2023-2024 academic year.

By Zara Norman, Bangor Daily News Staff Mainers consider the housing crisis to be a bigger problem than any of the others facing our state.

By Zara Norman, Bangor Daily News Staff Much of Maine is already lagging behind the goals set in two state-sponsored housing studies largely due to a hostile construction climate, planners warn.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Money for trail systems, airboat noise limits and a push to fight aquatic invasive species are among the Maine Legislature’s 2024 decisions that will affect your outdoor experience in 2025.

Eastern Maine Development Corporation named Jennifer King, senior director of planning and development, as the recipient of the 2024 Tom Davis Employee of the Year Award.

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LAGRANGE — In 2010, SAD 41, which represents Brownville, LaGrange, and Milo, and neighboring SAD 31 of the Howland area, formed Alternative Organizational Structure 43 to share central office services including a superintendent, business director, and technology director.

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By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine had near-record bear and deer seasons and a successful moose hunt in 2024, according to biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife who manage the state’s big game animals.

Marking a transformative investment in northern New England’s forests, the U.