By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff The 2024 Maine moose permit lottery has a new opening date that shortens the application period but allows hunters to know how many permits will be issued in each hunting zone before they apply.

By Tim Obrey, regional fisheries supervisor Salmon are the only species MEIFW stocks in Moosehead Lake, and we’ve been able to slowly reduce the number over the years to just 5,000 spring yearlings annually.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff How the gas tax money the state gives to the ATV, snowmobiling and boating communities toward upkeep of trails and boat facilities is distributed is the same proportions as it was in 2001, even though participation in the three motor sports has changed.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff It’s finally snowy enough across Maine to have some long-delayed outdoor winter fun.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine biologists are trying to better understand golden eagles, an endangered species that has not nested in the state since 1997.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Bucksport High School jumped out to a 22-11 lead in the first quarter to help the team earn a 71-52 victory at Foxcroft Academy in a Big East Conference/Class B North game on the evening of Thursday, Jan.

By Tim Obrey, regional fisheries supervisor  Trying to understand smelt population dynamics is one of the most vexing problems we face as fisheries managers.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff Bangor Daily News sports reporter Larry Mahoney has won the National Sports Media Association’s Maine Sportswriter of the Year Award — for the sixth time.

Foxcroft Academy senior Jadon Richard has been named to the Big East Conference 2023-24 Week 5 honor roll, the second such recognition of the season for him as he was also chosen in Week 1.

ORONO — The Foxcroft Academy boys finished the day with a score of 41 points to place fourth among a field of nine teams at an Eastern Maine Indoor Track League/Penobscot Valley Conference meet Monday, Jan.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Most of the state’s Interconnected Trail System for snowmobiles will be usable within the next week, according to the president of the Maine Snowmobile Association.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Among such far-flung destinations as Antananarivo, Madagascar and Thessaloniki, Greece in the New York Times’ annual 52 places to go list is Millinocket, Maine, which the Times named as a top place to visit this year for the total solar eclipse, the totality of which will cross a swath of Maine on April 8.

By Aislinn Sarnacki Waterfalls are magical, especially when you aren’t expecting them.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff The Class C North schoolgirl basketball race has plenty of contenders.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff One state park is closed because of storm damage and access to another is limited due to a staffing shortage, according to a spokesman for the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands.

By Tim Obrey, regional fisheries supervisor  One of the earliest reports compiled by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife on the Sebec Lake fishery was authored by Carl Fenderson and published in 1955.

NEWPORT — The Piscataquis Community High School wrestling team placed sixth at the 2024 Nokomis Warrior Clash on Saturday, Jan.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff With not enough volunteers and very little money, Maine snowmobile clubs are scrambling to reopen or reroute sections of the International Trail System damaged by the fierce wind and rain storm on Dec.