7+ hour, 43+ min ago   (823+ words) In 1986, Maine held its first modern-day spring turkey hunting season. The hunt was limited to York County, where turkeys had been successfully reintroduced in the mid-1970s after two failed attempts by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and local…...

21+ hour, 46+ min ago   (247+ words) A 13-year-old boy was killed and two others seriously injured when they were hit by a car near 512 Warren Ave. in Portland Saturday night. The crash happened at about 8:45 p.m., when a group of teenage boys was walking on the north…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1106+ words) When Jedediah Talbot started his business as a professional trail builder in Maine in 2004, he had a hard time finding work in the state. For five years, he mostly got jobs in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. “It was an uphill…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (152+ words) A New Hampshire man allegedly spent years sexually abusing a child at a Maine campground. John Defina, 81, of Kingston, New Hampshire, has been charged with five counts of unlawful sexual contact, four of which are felonies, according to the Cumberland…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (470+ words) A group tied to President Donald Trump’s massive political operation reserved at least $4.4 million in ads in the race between former Gov. Paul LePage and State Auditor Matt Dunlap for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. The reservations first appeared in tracking by…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (514+ words) Three hundred and forty three American flags dotted the lawn outside Central Station of the Bangor Fire Department on Friday. Each flag, arranged in more than two dozen columns, represented a New York City firefighter who died on Sept. 11, 2001. The…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (534+ words) Bangor’s assistant city manager, who is leaving her position later this fall, plans to start her own consulting business to help municipalities and nonprofits. Courtney O’Donnell has been with the city for five years and wants to use her experience…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (271+ words) bangordailynews.com Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to [email protected] I am retired now. But when I was seeing patients, I would often see women who were trying to support their…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (675+ words) Standing in front of a crowd of 50 gathered in the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Caribou Thursday evening, Bobby Charles confidently asserted that he’s still in Maine’s gubernatorial race. “There is no reason in the world that we cannot…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (794+ words) Bucksport’s town council will soon consider a moratorium on data center proposals to buy time to regulate them, but opinions differ about whether a temporary ban is a necessary safeguard or would scare away much-desired business. The town’s regulatory review…...