Secretary of State Matt Dunlap is reaching out to help educate the public now that the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles is issuing two different types of driver’s licenses and state identification cards.
Northern Maine’s homegrown County Bluegrass Festival is among the contenders for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s event of the year.
One of the most anticipated events of the summer — the Crown of Maine Balloon Festival — is bringing 14 hot-air balloon pilots to central Aroostook County, along with the chance for people to take to the skies as they never have before.
The 15th annual Nordic Trail Festival brought together hundreds of mountain bikers and hikers at one of New England’s top four-season trail venues during the first weekend of August.
Presque Isle Utilities District has to find an alternative for disposing of its wastewater sludge after soil from fields long used to spread the substance tested higher than the state-mandated threshold for the PFOS family of “forever chemicals.”
More than 100 people gathered in Weston on Saturday to decry a controversial proposal by a Baileyville pulp mill to abandon a dam it owns.
Middle and high school students have been working on a unique digital art project at Wintergreen Arts Center in hopes of promoting healthy lifestyle choices to Presque Isle area residents.
Tribal leaders and lawmakers in Maine have begun to work together on potential reforms to a 1980 agreement in hopes of spurring economic development and addressing health, educational and social inequities on reservations across the state.
Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, has appointed Sen. Mike Carpenter, D-Houlton, to serve as co-chair of the State of Maine Legislative Task Force on Indian-State Relations.
The Diocese of Portland has launched a new third-party reporting system that will enable all diocesan employees, volunteers and parishioners to make reports, anonymously or not, whenever they have evidence of activity which violates the standards of ethical conduct described in the diocese’s Code of Ethics (www.portlanddiocese.org/human-resources/code-of-ethics).
