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Gov. Paul LePage talks about his budget at Ellsworth High School Thursday in Ellsworth.

LePage promotes budget plan, economic vision in Ellsworth

Gov. Paul LePage brought his budget plan roadshow to the local high school Thursday evening and was met by a mostly cordial …

St John River ice jam taken at 8am this morning. The jam starts across from the Dickey Trading post and was still backing up at the head of Big Rapid this morning.
Posted by Tylor Kellys Camps Allagash Maine on Thursday, April 16, 2015

VIDEO | POLL QUESTION

Ice jams, possible rain raises flooding concerns for parts of Maine

FORT KENT | State and local officials are keeping a close eye on a massive ice jam on the St. John River in Allagash …

Ice out! Show us the high water or ice jams in your area

A video of a Maine man trapped by his seatbelt went viral recently.

Maine man gets trapped by seatbelt, nation laughs

Clint Chadbourne and his family were on their way back to Portland from Massachusetts, where they were visiting relatives over Easter.

Black Lives Matter protesters storm Portland City Hall

Several sources, including WCSH journalist Grady Trimble, reported that anti-racism protesters stormed …

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Helen Lyon (right) of Brooklin told the story of her birth in and rescue from Auschwitz 70 years ago at Beth Israel in Bangor Wednesday. Lyon's mother, Marie Edelsbourgh, was a Polish resistance fighter who disguised herself as a Christian until captured. Barbara Schwartz (left) also spoke about her father's survival of the Holocaust.

Brooklin woman born in Auschwitz recalls mother’s days as freedom fighter

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Maine service centers and tourist destinations such as Old Orchard Beach, shown here in this 2014 BDN file photo, would benefit from a local option sales tax, according to proponents who testified for the initiative Thursday, April 16, 2015, during a Taxation Committee hearing at the State House in Augusta.

Revenue sharing uncertainty clouds debate on local option sales tax

The Australian company Liquified Natural Gas Ltd. has received nine of the 10 regulatory approvals it needs to build an LNG export terminal near Port Hawkesbury in Nova Scotia, imagined in this artists rendering featured in a July 2014 investor presentation. The project relies on the reversal of Spectra's Maritimes and Northeast pipeline to send gas north.

Nova Scotia company wants to move LNG north through Maine for export

Maine senator proposes deep cuts to welfare programs

CONCERNING CONSUMERS

3 things you haven't tried to buy online, but you should

JOURNEYS OVER A HOT STOVE

The absolute best southern-style mac-n-cheese ever

The Conservation Fund will use money from tech giant Apple to buy 32,400 acres of forestland in Aroostook County, just south of Wytopitlock Lake and on the border with Penobscot and Washington counties.

Apple funds conservation of 32,400 acres in The County

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Maine Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Patricia Aho displays a piece of landscaping timber which is the type of product to be made from 27,000 tons of fiber wastes being removed and recycled from a Warren property.

Removal of massive Warren fiber waste pile begins

Maine municipal group backs effort to give state full control of General Assistance

SETH AND THE CITY

Brush between school bus driver, bicyclist rekindles road-sharing debate

EMCC president tentatively accepts Florida post

Investigator says name-calling likely was discrimination

AUGUSTA | A South Portland man who allegedly was called names that included “Mexican, …

Fire crews work to extinguish a fire in a single-family home on Monday evening at 55 Treadwell Acres in Hermon.

Spontaneous combustion of brush or rags cited as cause of Hermon fire

Opinion

A nurse dispenses methadone pills at CAP Quality Care in Westbrook on March 13.

EDITORIALS

Try alternative addiction treatments before taking away methadone

There has been a lot of debate in recent months about replacing methadone treatment for opioid addiction with alternatives, such as Suboxone. In his proposed …

The Point

THE POINT

What’s up and what’s down in Maine

PORTLAND | It’s a grab bag of data. The Maine Economic Growth Council and Maine Development Foundation’s 30-page Measures of Growth report, for that …

Sports

Charles Steinberg, executive vice president and senior advisor to the president of the Boston Red Sox, makes a point while speaking Thursday at the University of Southern Maine's Hannaford Hall in Portland. Steinberg was the keynote speaker for the Maine Sports Commission's Business of Sports Symposium.

Steinberg: Red Sox, Maine sports ventures must ‘touch people’s lives’ to succeed

PORTLAND | The autograph line in Warwick, Rhode Island, was too long, and the Boston Red Sox players were in jeopardy of missing their …

Outdoors

Cardinals are common in Maine now, but originally were limited to the southeastern U.S. It is the state bird of seven states.

GOOD BIRDING

Want more birds? Native plants in the yard attract bugs and birds

I was very young when I first tasted spinach, but I had enough sense to spit it out. In fact, I let it drool down …

Living

JULIA BAYLY

Before there can be spring in northern Maine, there must be mud

FORT KENT | Ahh, spring in northern Maine: The time when thoughts at Rusty Metal Farm turn to increasing temperatures, baby animals, blooming flowers …