Maine Democrats vying to succeed Janet Mills won’t embrace her relief checks

Three longtime conservation partners unite to protect rare older forests

New England Forestry Foundation and Seven Islands Land Company have signed an agreement to defer planned timber harvests on nearly 500 acres of rare, older, natural forest — also known as late-successional and old-growth forest — in Piscataquis County. These forests provide unique habitat to a range of sensitive species and store exceptional amounts of […]

Ethics panel fines Bobby Charles nearly $23K over illegal contributions

The penalty is half of the roughly $45,000 that donors gave to his campaign beyond the general election cap.

2nd Annual Somerset Job and Resource Fair Wednesday

BINGHAM — The Somerset Economic Development Corp. is hosting the 2nd Annual Somerset Job and Resource Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 28 — free to all attendees — at 263 Main St. (the former Quimby School). The goal is for Mainers to find their next great job and/or the help they need in fine-tuning their job […]

Judge rules Maurene Comey, daughter of ex-FBI director, was unlawfully fired by Trump administration

NEW YORK (AP) — Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was unlawfully fired from her job as a federal prosecutor in New York last year, a federal judge ruled Monday. Judge Jesse M. Furman said that Comey, who was an assistant U.S. attorney for a decade, was illegally fired in July […]

Bangor will offer free bus rides on Election Day

That includes all Community Connector routes across Hampden, Veazie, Orono, Old Town and Brewer.