The BDN surveyed dozens of readers and spoke with voters downtown to find out what they're looking for in a council candidate.

Maine voters agree on housing. They want their leaders to find common ground and get to work. As Mainers, we know that people who work in our communities should be able to live in them too, and young ...

When an Aroostook County couple sold 3,000 “walking tacos” during the 2024 total solar eclipse, they knew they’d hit upon something good. Two years later, they’re in business.

Besides being the first in the state, the facility is also the first rural recovery high school in New England.

Deer Isle and Stonington are short more than 100 units of affordable housing and have roughly the same shortage of year-round workers.

For four years starting in 1968, the Callahan Mine in Brooksville was the world's only intertidal heavy metal mine.

Speed and alcohol are believed to have contributed to an early morning crash, Tuesday, in the town of Albion that left a ...

Jessica Emery, 44, died after falling from the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge in Bangor on Monday night. Police are investigating.

U.K. national Mohammed Sultan Saleh was sentenced to time served in Maine after illegally entering near the Quebec border.

A federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from using its old congressional districts in the November ...

A lone juror blocked the acquittal of Lindsay Clancy, despite acknowledging during deliberations that he had doubts about her guilt, the ...

An armed man accused of charging toward Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton during a campaign stop at a fair was trying to ask ...