The interaction, which was partly caught on video of the April 11 meeting, came as councilors were leaving their regular chambers for a closed-door session to discuss the future of the town’s cash-strapped volunteer ambulance service. Read More
Maine saw 15 percent fewer drug overdose deaths in 2018, marking the first year since 2011 that the total number of those deaths dropped in Maine. Read More
A group of Bangor surgeons has opened a new outpatient surgery center near the Bangor Mall that allows them to more easily do advanced types of surgery, in particular same-day knee, hip and shoulder replacements. Read More
When Hampden’s longtime director of public safety, Chief Joseph “Joe” Rogers, retires at the end of this month, he’ll be replaced by a veteran member of his department. Read More
A send-off ceremony will be held in Bangor on Saturday for a group of soldiers in the Maine National Guard who will deploy to Poland later this month. Read More
The parent group of Bangor’s Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center has appointed one of its top executives to replace the hospital’s former president, Donna Rusell-Cook, after she stepped down recently. Read More
Some Portland streets will be closed Tuesday as a crowd expected to reach the thousands mourns the death of Maine State Police Detective Ben Campbell during a funeral at the Cross Insurance Arena. Read More
The Maine State Police detective who died after he was struck on the side of I-95 in Hampden on Wednesday morning had served about six-and-a-half years on the police force. Read More
The cars, which were carrying plywood, derailed in the Penobscot County town at 5:05 p.m. Friday. Read More
The suspect in last week’s robbery of a Down East Credit Union location in Bangor was arrested in Connecticut on an unrelated shoplifting charge over the weekend and will be extradited back to Maine. Read More
In two years, the runners, dogwalkers and other pedestrians of Hampden will have a new way to get around town. Read More
Michael Greenlaw, 21, was charged with elevated aggravated assault, a Class A felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison, according to the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office. Read More
Robert “Bob” Glidden, a World War II veteran whose last name still appears on the Bangor auto body shop that he opened in 1964 and whose magical ability to fix cars has been comically depicted in the company’s TV commercials, died Friday. Read More
More than 1,300 electricity customers lost power in Ellsworth, Trenton and Bar Harbor early Saturday morning after a vehicle struck a utility pole on Route 1 in Ellsworth then left the scene. Read More
“It's totally unacceptable how things were handled today.” Read More
The marsh is cherished by bird enthusiasts and environmentalists who have resisted efforts to develop the surrounding land and who helped push the city to develop a management plan for the wetland in 2007. Read More
The developers who are rehabbing 29 Franklin St. in downtown Bangor said the project was not economically feasible without the city’s assistance. Read More
Emera Inc. said Monday that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its interest in Emera Maine to ENMAX Corp. for $959 million. Read More
Gerald Nessmann, a Sebec resident who helps oversee the hospital as a member of its publicly elected board, filed a lawsuit last fall seeking to halt the merger and make more information about it publicly available. Read More
Tyler Tibbetts stole the cruiser after being arrested on a warrant for a probation violation, squeezing through a window in the backsteat partition and speeding off. Read More
