As an aging Maine confronts a nursing workforce crisis, the state’s public universities are anticipating another year of record applications in keeping with a four-year growth trend of nearly 20 percent across the System.
Ever since the state minimum wage began increasing by $1 every year in 2017, business owners and employees in Aroostook County have thought much about how future increases might impact the region’s economy and their own lives for better or worse.
This is the fourth of four stories outlining the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s recently unveiled big game management plan, which includes deer, bear, moose and turkeys.
It’s being called a landmark Supreme Court decision and a historic day for American sports, as the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a federal ban on sports gambling is unconstitutional.
The public gets its first opportunity to comment on a plan to rezone 51,000 acres within the Fish River Chain of Lakes at two public hearings later this month in northern Maine.
The Maine State Forest Service has indicated that the wildfire danger across Aroostook County, Piscataquis County, Northern Somerset, Northern and Central Penobscot County and Northern Washington County is high today.
State wildlife officials have unveiled Maine’s latest long-range management plan for four crucial “big game” species, and have invited the public to view and comment on the document for the next month.
It’s a familiar conundrum for bicycling enthusiasts — the desire to explore new roads or trails on two wheels competing with the fear of encountering monster hills, heavy vehicular traffic or simply getting lost on unfamiliar routes.
The Maine Warden Service and first responders in northern Maine received a new airboat to deploy during emergencies and natural disasters.
They are the “good guys with guns” the National Rifle Association says are needed to protect students from shooters: a school police officer, a teacher who moonlights in law enforcement, a veteran sheriff.
