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Republican Steven Foster is running for his fourth term in the statehouse’s lower chamber, representing Dexter and several other towns west of Bangor. He has won every election easily — …
“It’s been more than 100 years since herds of woodland caribou graced the state of Maine. At least we can still claim the potato.”
Thus opens the description in this year’s Fedco…
In 2021, the legislature’s government oversight committee directed the state watchdog agency to investigate the deaths of four…
The price tag on a new elementary school in Bar Harbor is $63 million. An Auburn high school completed in 2023 came in at $122 million. And at the ballot box this fall, Cape Elizabeth voters will…
State leaders tasked with reviewing Maine’s preparations and responses to climate change-fueled natural disasters are at a crossroads.
While Maine has seen seven federal disaster…
Fall is in the air, though we have a couple weeks left of astronomical summer. It’s a transitional time not just for our wardrobes, schedules and outdoor activities, but for the climate.
…
A transportation broker company with a pending contract to handle all MaineCare rides throughout the state is facing complaints from vulnerable riders who say they’re being left at their…
The owners of Chipman’s Wharf, a seafood market, buying station and restaurant in Milbridge, had a brutal awakening after the powerful January storms wiped away their 106-foot wharf.
The…
As president of Caribou Rehab and Nursing Center, Phil Cyr begins each morning walking the hallways, greeting every employee by name. The walls of the Aroostook County nursing home are full of…
Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide.
When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County…
From a bird blind on Seal Island, I watched as puffins zoomed in from the sea with a rainbow of fish drooping from their beaks.
They carried copper and golden juvenile haddock, redfish and…
In a Bangor courtroom last week, Judge Meghan Szylvian ruled the state had violated the constitutional rights of a criminal defendant who had been in custody for nearly a month.
The…
Even before it opened in Presque Isle in March, the Aroostook Memory Center had 68 referrals.
Primary care physicians across the rural county had patients they suspected were experiencing…
Lobster fishing has been a good business in the Gulf of Maine for a long time. With the exception of a few notable dips, both the landings and value of the catch have been on an …
A working group looking into ways to bring healthcare to Maine’s island communities is considering “ambulance vessels” as a possible solution.
Rob McGraw, executive director of Atlantic…
A nearly $5 million federal grant recently awarded to the University of New England will be put toward efforts to improve Maine’s workforce supporting geriatric care over the next five years.…
Communities around the state are working to comply with Maine’s landmark housing law after a July 1 deadline to meet the requirements.
The law, which essentially bans single-family zoning…
In August 2023, Maine Supreme Court Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill …
There’s a reason so many independent pharmacies have had to close in recent years: pharmacy benefit managers.
That’s according to the Federal Trade Commission, which in a harsh report…
Kristy Basso sets a timer for 25 minutes any time she does a chore outside her West Paris home. As the primary caregiver for her 77-year-old mother, who has dementia, Basso is worried about…
Maine will coordinate plans for new transmission lines — particularly regional projects to share power from offshore wind farms — with nine Northeast neighbors, under a major agreement …
Entering the Healing Lodge, a log building steps from downtown Millinocket, visitors are greeted by the soft sounds of a flute, and the aroma of burnt sage and fresh sweetgrass.
Anchoring…
Ron Huber rifled through a thick folder full of decades of state environmental records outside a community hall in the tiny coastal Maine town of Searsport. For the longtime local conservation…
A year-old law seems to have done little to curb a surge in violence against health care workers that began during the pandemic, despite increasing charges for assaults on nonmedical staff — such…
Keri-Jon Wilson started as a hobbyist, making medical marijuana edibles on a small scale for patients suffering from chronic pain and cancer. But in 2015 she expanded her business, Portland-based…
On June 25 in Caribou, Judge Stephen Nelson faced a constitutional dilemma. Prosecutors had charged a defendant with aggravated drug trafficking, furnishing and possession nearly three weeks prior…
Sea level rise, intensifying coastal storms and rising construction costs converged to drive up annual Maine home insurance rates by an average of 15 percent this year, a recent …
As the daughter of a dad with paranoid schizophrenia, Delaney Ruston, a physician and filmmaker, wanted to find a better way to help her father when he was in crisis.
In a film she made…
The attorney general’s office is putting nearly $2.5 million toward a resource center that will offer assistance to Maine counties, cities and towns as they decide how to spend opioid settlement…
Inside the Capitol Region Public Defender’s Office on a sunny morning in late May, five attorneys sat around a…
After qualifying for home care services, Pauline Kane sat on a waitlist for more than a year. In the meantime her…
‘the mother was never given a chance’
On July 26, 2019, Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services removed two boys from their parents’ care.
A few months later, during which time the father died, a…
notable incidents happened in Rockland, Frankfort
Late one morning in May 2021, a resident of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, spotted an “elderly, disoriented” man standing in a driveway, according to a police report. The resident called police and then…
State regulators unanimously approved final changes to Maine’s mining law on Thursday morning that will pave the way for a small-scale spodumene mining operation in the western Maine town of Newry…
Lawmakers failed to advance a bill addressing invasive aquatic plant infestations on Friday, weakening a slate of initiatives that environmentalists said would buttress Maine lakes and freshwater…
Bucksport officials and residents who hope to see their town’s defunct landfill closed were encouraged by a recent state directive: The owner has to shut down the facility by 2026, and must…
Kennedy Raymond started her sixth year of teaching at Lewiston’s Robert V. Connors elementary school with the biggest classroom she ever had to lead.
With 25 students, Raymond, who had…
Gravity is a friend of wastewater treatment plants, which is why the facilities are typically placed at low elevations, often along Maine’s extensive coastline.
Placing them in low-lying…
On a gray morning last week, former state senator Bill Diamond stood at a rally in front of the statehouse and implored Maine’s government to do more to prevent child abuse — and be transparent…
A new analysis shows that more major power outages across Maine, the Northeast and the U.S. are happening as a result of bad weather.
The data from the nonprofit …
The Biden administration finalized new rules for nursing homes this week that establish minimum care hours from registered nurses and nurse aides, and require a registered nurse on duty at all…
Sherri Parker, assistant director of nursing at Caribou Rehab and Nursing, recalled a woman who came to her facility and was so sedated by the prescribed antipsychotic medication she had been…
Like most states, Maine guarantees parents legal representation when removing their children from their homes because of fears of abuse or neglect.
Since the start of the year, the daily…
Kim Hubbard has been an education technician at elementary and middle schools in Oxford County for two decades, and year after year she has seen colleagues leave the profession because the pay is…
The nonprofit responsible for managing organ donation in Maine and New England could be at risk of losing its…
The town of Raymond has spent three years trying to hold a developer and his contractors accountable for…
