Soon people with an addiction to opioids will be able to walk into a health care clinic in Bangor and receive medication that day to help them in their treatment and recovery process. Read More
The school suspended the male student on an interim basis until it can complete an administrative investigation. Read More
Their accounts raise questions not just about how the school can maintain safety when alleged victims don’t come forward, as is most often the case, but about how it can better catch those who may have a history of hurting women, while also protecting their rights. Read More
The school announced additional steps to improve its response to victims. Read More
The school would need to earn their trust by making concrete changes, the interim president responded. Read More
The interim president of the University of Maine at Farmington responded Tuesday to a Bangor Daily News story detailing how the school failed two female students who reported being raped. Read More
The students offer a rare look at confidential proceedings that they said devastated them after the worst experiences of their lives. Read More
The rules would grant more protections to students alleged to have committed misconduct and ease up on oversight of schools. Read More
All together, the recommendations represent an overhaul of a tenuous system of services. Read More
MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program, had an extra $37.7 million on hand at the close of the last fiscal year, which ended June 30 Read More
The city errs on the side of being more collaborative with landlords, generally refraining from more extreme measures such as shutting properties down and taking landlords to court. It’s because people’s homes hang in the balance. Read More
From sewage in the basement, to a house visibly shifting on a poor foundation, to stains on a rug from a dead person’s body fluids, Bangor has seen a wide range of health and safety issues in people’s homes. But something makes these code violations different. Read More
Share your thoughts on what children and teenagers in your community may need. Read More
LD 525, which passed the Maine Legislature in June and became law without the governor’s signature, will provide the first public financial support for batterers’ intervention programs in Maine, allowing the programs to enroll offenders without the means to pay. Read More
"I’m scared to die,” said Zachary Smith, who has an opioid use disorder and lost his sister to an overdose in 2016. Read More
The Bangor Daily News hosted the One Life Project: Public Priorities event to get a sense of the most urgent and well-supported initiatives for tackling opioid addiction, involve the public in discussion about a key issue in advance of November’s election, and provide a chance for the gubernatorial candidates to listen to what matters to Maine people. Read More
Come to the One Life Project: Public Priorities event at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 18, at the Bangor Arts Exchange ballroom. Read More
How competitors came together to save lives -- and how fragile their work could be. Read More
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has decided to delay changes for six months that addiction treatment agencies had said would threaten their operations in the middle of an opioid crisis. Read More
There were once 11 teams offering specialized therapy in Maine. There soon will be four and a half. Read More
