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A New York City group spends $175,000 to target Democratic frontrunner Nirav Shah in Maine's gubernatorial primary, boosting ...

University of New Hampshire sophomore Ruth White will advance to the NCAA national championship meet after placing ninth in ...

Tyler Jewett told officers on Wednesday he had obtained the materials "as recently as last week," and had distributed some in ...

The Purple Heart recipient criticized the U.S. Senate candidate over his comment on a video of a firefight with the Taliban.

A bomb scare at MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital in Rockport prompted a lockdown and police response early Friday morning.

The trail connecting Sylvan Road and Stillwater Avenue will soon bear the name of the civil rights icon and Maine's first ...

Oxford County is a county that is full of hardworking people who deeply care about their community and heritage. We deserve a voice who will speak up for us in Augusta.” ...

Outdoors The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild places of Maine. It features stories on hunting, fishing, wildlife, conservation and recreation, t ...

Maine doesn't lack candidates with thoughtful platforms. What's harder to find is someone who has already done the unglamorous, coalition-building, agency-coordinating work that turns a platform into ...

"The Minute Man" statue by Daniel Chester French in Concord, Massachusetts, which depicts Isaac Davis, a gunsmith and militia officer who commanded a company of Minutemen from Acton, Massachusetts, ...

Republican candidate for governor Garrett Mason talks with supporters at a May 14 event for JD Vance at the Bangor International Airport. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN Letters submitted by BDN ...