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50-year-old temperature record broken in Bangor during spring heat wave

Janet Mills criticizes Democratic carveout for political groups in data privacy bill

5 charged with drug trafficking in Searsport

House Republicans will advance 18-month extension of spy powers, leaders say

Bangor wants to spend $2.6M to prep land for housing

Bringing water and sewer, electricity lines and internet conduits to the site would spare a future developer from the cost...

Tear-down homes show the ballooning price of Maine’s coastal enclaves

The partially built home on a less-than-quarter-acre lot is one of only two single-family homes for sale in Biddeford Pool.

We navigated a ‘shredder’ on the Dead River’s whitewater

"Most people outside of the whitewater world are unfamiliar with a shredder."

Bangor-Brewer urban garden tour will teach you how to grow food in the city

City gardening means space is at a premium, and sites on the tour range in size and scope from a...

A Maine lobsterman once won an Olympic medal in the hammer throw

Edmund Black grew lean and strong as a teenager in the 1920s on the water in Casco Bay, pulling lobster...

Netanyahu’s speech to Congress left many questions unanswered

“With so many deaths and so many buildings destroyed, Palestinians if anything are likely to continue to support Hamas.”

Haniyeh was the pragmatic face of Hamas – his death is a major blow for the group

At the start of the Gaza war Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear that Israel would go after...

Harris now has no Democrat opponents for presidential nomination – after key deadline passes

US vice president Kamala Harris is now the only candidate seeking the presidential nomination, after a deadline passed with no...

Sister pleads with new prisons minister over brother serving indefinite jail sentence

The sister of a man who has spent 12 years behind bars on an abolished prison sentence has pleaded with...

Hamas’s top political leader killed in Iran, group says