3+ hour, 11+ min ago  (861+ words) MADAWASKA, Maine" Parking quickly filled up and guests started parking down the road from Madawaska's Multi-Purpose center as the town's Top O' Maine Trade Show kicked off on Saturday morning. It is the largest trade show north of Bangor, and…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago  (589+ words) The wooden box on a post outside Amanda Moscone's Bangor home looks like most little free libraries, where people typically take or leave books. But opening the door reveals shelves of greenery instead: potted houseplants, cuttings and propagated leaves. A…...

13+ hour, 1+ min ago  (841+ words) As frontrunning gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles'finished a fiery stump speech at the Maine Republican Convention Saturday morning, one of his rivals, entrepreneur Jonathan Bush, watched from the upper bleachers. Shortly after the convention chair nudged Charles to wrap up, Bush…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (797+ words) Calais has been seeking federal funds for a new ladder truck for years. It hasn't worked out. At 41 years old, the fire department's current truck has been in service for about two decades longer than industry standards recommend. The department…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (212+ words) PORTLAND (WGME) " A Cumberland County corrections recruit is free and training again after ICE took him over the winter. The arrest on Fox Street in Portland in January was captured on video. It happened during a five-day sweep in Maine…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (175+ words) There's only six more days left in April, but winter hasn't totally lost its grip on Maine. Mainers across central and northern regions of the state reported brief snow flurries on Friday afternoon. The flurries are part of a weather…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (92+ words) The "Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles"is launching a new mobile branch to make services more accessible for rural Mainers. The BMV mobile branch is a portable unit that will travel to rural areas without direct services. The unit will…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (203+ words) The County Federal Credit Union plans to build a new branch in an empty lot near downtown Bangor that has previously been home to a gas station, a convenience store and an office building. The proposed bank building at 96 State…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (404+ words) One thing about growing up in a unique culture is that you sort of don't know how unique it is until you leave. You think everybody has the same childhood when you're a kid." " Connie Voisine, an author who grew…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (258+ words) Since 1983, Mainers have fanned out across lakes and ponds across the state on the third Saturday in July to help count the Common Loon. The "results"from this summer's 42nd annual loon tally are in, and Tracy Hart, a wildlife ecologist…...