By Chris Sargent As Old Man Winter slowly releases his frigid, tight grip and hands us off to the warm pleasantries of spring, it’s time to switch gears.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff While the men’s college basketball world may be the big sports story in New Orleans this Saturday night, Josh Harvey also hopes to make the most of the upcoming weekend in The Big Easy.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Electronic registration of wild game is likely coming to Maine.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff One sign that the sports world is getting back to normal is the resumption of postseason all-star events.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff After two years of either canceled or minimized races due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race is back to full strength.

Three players from Foxcroft Academy and another from Dexter Regional High School have been selected for the 2022 Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic, scheduled for Saturday, July 16 at Lewiston High School.

By BDN Outdoors By all accounts, the late Gerald “Herb” Green was a larger than life character.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Another in a long line of bills that would have opened the door for Sunday hunting in Maine has failed to make it through committee.

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Caden and Elsa La Plante, members of Mid-Maine Dolphins at Alfond Youth Center in Waterville participated in a state swim meet in Bath earlier in the month.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Fire Department received a $2,500 check earlier this week — a donation from the Radar Runs event on the frozen Piscataquis River.

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By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Charlie Houghton’s 3-pointer from the left wing as time expired lifted Dirigo of Dixfield to a dramatic 59-56 victory over Dexter on Saturday night to win the Class C boys basketball state championship.

Dexter’s Schobel earns All-New England status By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Mattanawcook Academy senior Jackson Sutherland of Lincoln capped off his high school wrestling career Saturday with a second-place finish at the New England championships in Providence, Rhode Island.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff DEXTER – Avery Gagnon and Bryce Connor began playing sports together long before they wore the red and white of Dexter Regional High School.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff The five northern Maine representatives in this weekend’s boys basketball state championship games all will seek to either make history or at least end lengthy gold-ball droughts.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Hunter Curtis of Ellsworth, Will Kusnierz of Dexter and Hunter Burpee of Southern Aroostook of Dyer Brook were instrumental in leading their teams to North regional boys basketball championships at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.

By Melissa Lizotte, Aroostook Republican Staff CARIBOU – When Tracy Babin of Caribou began looking for a winter sport that her entire family could be involved with, she immediately thought of dog sledding.