State officials seized about 20 dogs from a property on Coldbrook Road in Hampden on Tuesday after their owner allegedly kept them in an unheated barn even as temperatures dropped well below freezing recently. Read More
On Jan. 27, Bangor city councilors will decide whether to keep the city’s public bus hub in Pickering Square -- and the course of redevelopment for the square. Read More
Bangor saw a 40 percent uptick in the number of parking tickets issued in the first year after it adopted a more advanced system for enforcing traffic violations around downtown. Read More
State regulators have cleared the way for Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft to join Northern Light Health, the Brewer-based health system that includes nine other hospitals stretching from Portland to Presque Isle. Read More
The Hampden Town Council has chosen the town’s clerk, Paula Scott, to serve as the next town manager after she spent six months managing the town on an interim basis. Read More
The company that runs parking garages and parking lots and issues parking tickets in downtown Bangor has proposed raising the prices of monthly passes for the Pickering Square parking garage and a few other public lots. Read More
The new waste processing plant in Hampden still hasn't reopened after a partially filled propane tank delivered to the center exploded on Thursday Read More
Of the nearly 25 people who made public comments, about half supported the proposal to keep the terminal where it is. Read More
Galen Cole, a former Bangor mayor and businessman who spent decades commemorating the experiences of Maine veterans after he narrowly survived a German artillery attack while serving in World War II, died Thursday at the age of 94. Read More
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins visited the Fruit Street School in Bangor on Friday morning for a round of congratulations on the school’s recent recognition as one of the most outstanding schools in the country. Read More
Three years after Maine officially legalized the possession of recreational marijuana, the state’s highest court is now considering one of the first constitutional challenges from a Mainer who ran into trouble for having the substance. Read More
A contractor hired by the state plans to finish demolishing the roughly 60-year-old bridge by mid-April. Then, the contractor will build a new bridge that includes newer materials that are resistant to corrosion. Read More
When city officials wrote the new polystyrene ban that took effect on Jan. 1, they decided to exempt hospitals from the rule, but that could soon change. Read More
A 25-year-old man was arrested Monday after he allegedly hurled a brick through the front windows of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. Read More
Size matters when it comes to health care. Read More
Norm Heitmann has played a central role in many of the Queen City’s most consequential developments of the past few decades. Read More
The fire destroyed the back section of the two-story white home on Maple Street, a Brewer fire captain said Wednesday. Read More
A years-long conversation about whether the terminal for Bangor’s public bus system should remain in Pickering Square could soon come to an end. Read More
"Their concerns are valid." Read More
The town of Cambridge and almost three dozen residents from the other communities that collectively own Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft have filed a lawsuit trying to block its pending merger with Northern Light Health. Read More
