By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff For 98 minutes, about 1,600 school kids, from Millinocket to Fort Fairfield, will be transported into the sometimes terrifying tale of the boy who survived alone in the harshest of Maine landscapes.

By Bill Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff The matchup between U.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News Staff In what may be a first, a Mainer has been named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 400 wealthiest living Americans.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Two of the men accused of hindering a Bangor homicide case were granted bail on Nov.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff The long-discussed effort to change Maine’s state flag is heading toward defeat, according to a surprising poll released Friday that carried other lessons ahead of the Nov.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff A new poll released the Friday before the Nov.

AUGUSTA — Efficiency Maine’s success accelerating the electrification of home heating was honored today with the prestigious “Leader of the Pack” award from The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

MILO — With the intention of providing more opportunities for area youth and to potentially save money, Brownville and Milo officials have been discussing the possibility of merging the two neighboring communities’ recreation departments into a new Penquis Recreation Program.

By David Sharp, The Associated Press Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state’s tallest mountain.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Economic Development Council is pleased to announce its choice for the 2024 Warren “Pete” Myrick Award, Jack Clukey of Dover-Foxcroft.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff A fourth man has been arrested in the death of a man who went missing in Bangor.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Three Penobscot County men have been arrested after the body of a missing man was found in October.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff Almost 270,000 Mainers voted by absentee ballot as of Tuesday, with Democrats leading the way exactly a week before Election Day but Republicans seeing historic levels of early voting in the hotly contested 2nd Congressional District.

On Tuesday, Nov.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff U.

By Zara Norman, Bangor Daily News Staff A partially defunct ski area in northern Maine was listed for sale Monday for $27 million after a developer’s big plans for it fell through over the summer.

BROWNVILLE — Grade 3 students at the Brownville Elementary School now have thousands of words and accompanying definitions at their fingertips, along with other assorted facts.

By CBS 13 The movie based on Donn Fendler’s classic survival memoir “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” will finally hit theaters this Friday.