By Matthew Gagnon, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine healthcare workers are fast approaching a hard deadline, where they must get vaccinated or face the prospect of losing their job.

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By Anya Fetcher If you’ve spent extensive time outside exploring Maine’s abundant natural beauty in the last year, you’re in good company.

By Matthew Gagnon Maine’s Apportionment Commission has been on a deadline, and for a while things weren’t looking good.

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By BDN Editorial Board Just for the record, we’d like to point out that it is still technically summer.

By Matthew Gagnon Well, he did it again.

By Nancy Battick One of my college professors wrote ASSUME on the chalkboard and warned us to never assume  because “When you assume you make an “ASS” out of “U” and “ME.

In Michigan last fall, a guided elk hunter holding a cow tag accidentally shot a bull elk.

By Jake Steinfeld In Maine, 13 percent of kids are considered obese.

By Bob Mallard We aren’t doing everything we can to ensure the survival of Maine’s Arctic charr, the last fish species of its kind in the contiguous United States.

By Matthew Gagnon Texas has been in the news a lot in the past week, mostly for the law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and the U.

Many moons ago, when I was a young, eager deer hunter, my woods gear consisted of a rifle, a compass, a knife and some waterproof matches.

In my last column I urged readers to rejoin the genealogical world.

By Matthew Gagnon I’ve seen the headline a thousand times in the last few months.

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By John Holyoke If you’re lucky — like I certainly am — you’ve got a close group of hunting buddies that you can count on to drop all the important stuff at a moment’s notice, hop in a truck, and head out onto our state’s network of semi-marked dirt roads in search of adventure.