GREENVILLE — The Greenville Select Board last week approved a series of land use ordinance amendments that change how far away a structure must be from the property lines in certain sections of town.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine voters will decide this fall whether to adopt a “red flag” law.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Fishing licenses for Maine residents will go up by $5 if the full Legislature approves a bill that made it out of committee after a work session in Augusta.

By Wendy Watkins, Bangor Daily News Staff A 53-year-old Massachusetts woman was killed in a snowmobile crash Friday afternoon, Feb.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Gov.

Emergency medical technicians and paramedics in Piscataquis County are completing training on new equipment that will help them provide more efficient, effective care.

GREENVILLE — After several months of discussion, the Greenville Planning Board formally gave its approval to  some land use ordinance amendments concerning changes to property line setbacks in certain sections of town.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff CHARLESTON — A Hancock man died at Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston on Friday night, Feb.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — A Corinth man was fatally shot in a public Bangor park in 2024 because he allegedly owed another man $600, according to an affidavit released Feb.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — Five people on Feb.

By Kevin Miller, Maine Public Maine’s attorney general is appealing a recent court decision that suspended a new law requiring gun buyers to wait three days before taking possession of the firearm.

MILO — The town of Milo hopes to break ground on the new public safety building later this year.

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine will have a new top federal prosecutor under President Donald Trump, after U.

By Emmett Gartner, The Maine Monitor Residents in Dover-Foxcroft could see their property tax bills increase by hundreds of dollars each year if the town commits to maintaining its ailing dam on the Piscataquis River to federal standards, officials said at a meeting in early February.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff A federal judge on Feb.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff GARLAND — Rescuers found an 85-year-old man who crashed into the woods in Garland on Wednesday, Feb.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff A 2023 train derailment in rural Somerset County that spilled 500 gallons of diesel fuel was caused by excessive water that flowed through a beaver dam and washed out part of the track, state officials said Wednesday, Feb.

GREENVILLE — The Greenville Planning Board is working to bring the town’s land use ordinance up to date by addressing a lack of guidelines and missing components in the document.