A man who crashed his truck into a home in a quiet residential zone in Belfast last summer during a high-speed police chase has pleaded guilty. Read More
One of the best-known people in Belfast wasn’t rich or high-powered or internationally famous. Read More
If there was a pop quiz to find out how many Mainers know what our local elected officials are paid, most people would likely fail. Read More
One of Maine’s newest licensed craft breweries doesn’t have a tasting room, and you can’t even buy a pint of beer to sip on site. What Frosty Bottom Brewing does have is really good beer, a good story and a great community. Read More
Dozens of firefighters worked Thursday evening to extinguish a fire that engulfed the administrative building at Belfast's Penobscot McCrum potato processing plant in Belfast. Read More
After 15 years of presiding over adoptions, guardianships, conservatorships, name changes, contested wills and more, Waldo County Judge of Probate Susan Longley is stepping down. Read More
Belfast Mayor Samantha Paradis was elected to her position in November 2017, and since then has found herself at the center of many controversies and moments of turmoil in the midcoast city. Read More
Opponents of a proposed land-based salmon farm in Belfast are hoping that a potential snag with a land lease will prove to be the end of the road for Nordic Aquafarms. Read More
The man had been driving a 2016 Yamaha four-wheeler on Mount Road in Burnham. Read More
The number of farmers in the state increased, with the number of farmers aged 34 and younger growing from 551 in 2012 to 1,253 in 2017. Read More
The woman charged in the killing of her 10-year-old daughter testified Friday that her husband told her to take half the blame for the child’s death, and said she feared he would hurt her if she refused. Read More
Sharon Carrillo and her husband, Julio Carrillo, have been charged with depraved indifference murder after Marissa’s death in February 2018. Read More
A fence — and the trees planted around it — was the catalyst that allegedly drove an organic gardener to use a Super Soaker to stealthily spray Roundup on her neighbors’ property in the middle of the night. Read More
Sharon Carrillo, who is accused of helping to beat her 10-year-old daughter to death last year, will be in court this week to learn if statements she made to police in the days after Marissa Kennedy’s death will be admissible at trial. Read More
Jerry Ireland was charged with 13 counts of cruelty toward animals after the March 2018 raid allegedly turned up the dead Mangalitsa pigs and one live, emaciated one. Read More
A dump truck driver swerved and lost control in an effort to avoid hitting a vehicle that had stopped for pedestrians in the crosswalk. Read More
State officials said this week that a Belfast land-based salmon farm’s pending application for a submerged lands lease can move forward, despite efforts by two groups to stop it. Read More
Belfast City Manager Joe Slocum doesn’t have a lot of good things to say about the next municipal budget cycle. Read More
This time around, there is a new governor, a new DOT commissioner and a sense among islanders — at least at the moment — that state officials want to work with them. Read More
A juvenile student who allegedly made a threat of violence at Mount View High School in Thorndike has been charged. Read More
