With more than a full year before the next election, Democrats are already targeting Rep. Bruce Poliquin in Maine’s Second Congressional District. His opponent in the last election, Emily Cain, announced her intent to run to unseat Poliquin just weeks after failing in her original bid… Read More
Thank you for upgrading the BDN app to the latest version, and thank you to so many of you who have been long-time BDN app users. The BDN received notice recently from Spreed, our long-time app development company, that they were ceasing business. After researching many… Read More
BANGOR, Maine — An electronic vandalism group that claimed responsibility for taking down the Maine state government website earlier in the week claimed Wednesday morning to knock offline the BDN and WABI websites. https://twitter.com/vikingdom2015/status/580707436417306624 https://twitter.com/vikingdom2015/status/580710036994830337 The group… Read More
SeaWorthy Productions is pleased to announce the release of the feature documentary RawFaith with its premier screening at the Maine International Film Festival on July 19 and 20. Filmed over seven years, the story of RawFaith is spun from the deck of a home built 88… Read More
BANGOR, Maine — On the nicest days of the year so far, 20 programmers in Bangor spent the weekend inside, donating time to hack projects for their local governments. The projects in Bangor included a tool to track the location of city vehicles such as snow… Read More
BANGOR, Maine — Two astronauts who returned Monday from the International Space Station touched down briefly in Bangor on Tuesday as they made their way from Kazakhstan to Houston. Canadian Chris Hadfield, who served as commander for the space station’s Expedition 35, tweeted at 8:15 p.m.:… Read More
A woman driving a Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck that she just bought hit a wild turkey while driving in the southbound lane of Interstate 95 in Sidney on Saturday. The turkey shattered her windshield, but the driver, Jessica McCook of Calais, was uninjured. McCook was heading to Augusta… Read More
AUGUSTA, Maine — A state police detective has been in Boston assisting officials with the investigation into the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, and Maine State Police has provided intelligence to investigators when asked, according to Col. Robert A. Williams, head of the state police. Read More
President Barack Obama apparently passed on Maine lobster, potato chips and blueberry pie at a Senate luncheon last week catered by Sen. Susan Collins. The president met with Senate Republicans on Thursday for a wide-ranging policy discussion over lunch, according to The Hill. The… Read More
BANGOR, Maine — Police in Bangor charged six people with operating under the influence over St. Patrick’s Day weekend, including a woman police say was involved in a three-car hit-and-run accident and a man accused of hitting vehicles while trying to leave his parking spot at a… Read More
Editor’s Note: This story was posted in March 2013, and is not about a current storm. For information about the storm forecast to hit the Eastern U.S. in Nov. 2013, click here. GRAY, Maine — A storm expected to arrive late Monday night could drop… Read More
PORTLAND, Maine — The Portland charter school founder who was ousted Thursday as executive director has cut off the board’s access to its website, email and documents, according to the board’s vice chairman. “He has locked us out,” Allison Crean Davis, vice chairman of… Read More
PORTLAND, Maine — A man is being treated for hypothermia after he spent at least five minutes in the ocean after being knocked off a pier into Portland’s Casco Bay during Saturday’s historic storm, according to officials. The man, whose boat was docked at… Read More
Gov. Paul LePage is well-known as an off-the-cuff speaker, and even in a major address like Tuesday’s State of the State, LePage really only used his prepared remarks as a guide. Maine’s governor doesn’t use a TelePrompTer as is common for most politicians. (President Barack Obama rarely… Read More
A network problem from an online advertising provider on Monday prompted malicious software warnings across many popular news websites, including bangordailynews.com. Visitors to the BDN website were not at any time exposed to any advertisements or software that could have affected their computers, and the issue… Read More
SOMERVILLE, Maine — Officials have recovered a body from rubble after a Lincoln County house and barn were destroyed by fire, according to officials. Police believe the the body is that of Cecil Brann, 92, who lived alone in the house, according to a news release… Read More
PORTLAND, Maine — The passenger in a Jeep that crashed head-on with a tractor-trailer on Wednesday has died, according to police. Dean Camacho, 27, of Waterville died overnight at Maine Medical Center in Portland, according to a news release from Stephen McCausland, spokesman for… Read More
PORTLAND, Maine — Police are searching for two white males after an armed robbery at an apartment at 132 Marginal Way on Friday evening, according to officials. The men forced their way into an apartment around 8 p.m. using a shotgun and a handgun and demanded… Read More
In all, 23 people were killed in 19 incidents, including 10 domestic violence homicides. Fourteen people were fatally shot, and five people were fatally stabbed. Bangor, Lamoine and Old Orchard Beach were the only cities with multiple homicides. In Bangor, six people were killed… Read More
ORONO, Maine — The news that former UMaine football player and Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself on Saturday was met with uniform reaction by his former teammates and coaches: Shock. “I’m hard-pressed to find or recall a young man… Read More
