Leaf peepers, start your engines.

Like many Appalachian Trail hikers, Emily M.

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The Penquis Sex Trafficking Action Response Team (START) will host a free online film screening of “Gridshock,” a documentary about human trafficking, followed by a panel discussion with local experts on Tuesday, Sept.

All people in Maine who think they need a coronavirus test are now eligible for one under a state order meant to increase access to tests.

AUGUSTA – Kingsbury Plantation is among the municipalities recognized for producing the highest-quality annual reports, during recent judging held at the Maine Municipal Association.

AUGUSTA — Ranked-choice voting will be used in the presidential election in Maine this fall after the state’s high court ruled that Republicans did not gather enough valid signatures to put forward a people’s veto effort challenging the voting method.

ORONO — For middle and high school students in some forest-dependent rural communities in Maine and Oregon, a lack of money for education is the top barrier to pursuing the career they want, according to a survey of more than 2,000 youth by researchers at the University of Maine and Oregon State University.

With the coronavirus already circulating in Maine, health care providers across the state are urging residents to get flu shots as soon as possible so that they can be protected when the influenza season arrives in the next few weeks, creating what the state’s top public health official called “the possibility of two concurrent epidemics.

AUGUSTA –- Scott McClellan, a wildlife biologist in the Greenville office, was honored with one of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s (MDIFW) highest honors, the Kenneth Anderson Award, given annually to the member of the department who has made exemplary contributions towards the enhancement of the state’s inland fisheries and wildlife.

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The effects of climate change are already broadly felt in Maine and across the U.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — An anonymous Maine Community Foundation donor has provided $200,000 in general support grants to 20 community theaters across Maine to help sustain them during the pandemic shutdown, including the Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft.

A dazzling time of year, fall foliage season marks the end of summer with a fiery display that transforms the Maine landscape.

November election results may be delayed for up to a day in parts of Maine, but not for the days or weeks that others are girding for as clerks boost capacity to handle record-shattering shares of absentee ballots and make contingency plans during the coronavirus pandemic.

GUILFORD — Excavators were digging a trench in Stephanie Cartwright’s yard on Water Street in Guilford to upgrade the power system.

Fall fishing can be feast or famine depending on several factors.

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