Gov. Janet Mills on Tuesday helped kick off Maine’s Bicentennial year at events in four cities around the state, including Bangor, where she participated in a morning kickoff event at Broadway Park. Read More
From iconic lobster rolls to other seafood spreads, Mainers are pretty familiar with this popular food, but how much do you really know about the industry itself? Read More
Antique Alley is located at 60 Columbia St., at the corner of Columbia and Cross streets, in the same storefront that formerly housed the Good Soul boutique. Read More
Today, wαsαhpskek mə̀nəhan is known as Marsh Island, home to the University of Maine and part of the towns of Orono and Old Town. Read More
Attendees at the Bangor State Fair this year will notice a big change to the fair’s layout, most notably an expanded midway and kiddie area, and a new indoor area in the Cross Insurance Center. Read More
Nine international flights were diverted to Bangor International Airport on Monday evening due to extreme weather conditions between New York and Boston. Read More
A reggae festival set for this weekend at Fort Knox State Historic Site in Prospect will offer attendees a chance to do something few have ever been able to do before: legally drink a beer in a Maine state park. Read More
If any one place is emblematic of summer in Maine, it's Acadia National Park. Read More
Spotted: Paul Bunyan, the Derry sewers, the Barrens, one big, bad clown. Not spotted: the Standpipe. But we’ll get there. Read More
If you were to make a list of the top 10 headlines of the 20th century, “man walks on moon” would undoubtedly be on it. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission landing on the surface of the moon is Saturday. Along with just about… Read More
The historical facts aren’t quite as lurid or spooky as the myth — but they still offer a fascinating peek into the earliest years of the United States. Read More
Angela Bonacasa has spent much of her career choreographing combat scenes on stage. So it’s fitting that she would take on a role as well known for its physicality as it is for its words or deeds in one of her first acting performances in nearly two decades. Read More
Waterfront Concerts marketing director Elissa Young confirmed Friday that the concert is still on, and that they have received no reports that Lil Wayne will no longer be on the bill. Read More
While these locations may be popular with out of states, how much do Mainers actually know about them? Read More
“We wanted this to be extremely interactive, so you can look, you can shop, you can participate in workshops. You can do a lot of things." Read More
Getting science that is highly researched and fact-checked — but still accessible and easy to understand — into the mainstream is one of the reasons why Bangor native Sarah Parcak wrote her new book. Read More
“There’s just something really infectious and really welcoming about pub culture, and the kind of camaraderie around football." Read More
The Bangor Daily News has been photographing Independence Day celebrations throughout Maine for decades, and we have the photos to prove it. Read More
Poet and Maine resident Richard Blanco’s work grapples with lots of weighty, difficult topics, from racism and homophobia to love and death. Read More
“Part of being age-friendly is making sure everybody has access to the outdoors, and to health and fitness facilities. This does both.” Read More
