Three groups have offered to buy and restart the shuttered Hampden waste plant, according to the organization representing 115 communities that sent their trash to the facility before it closed last spring.

Maine has been among the states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic, ranking ninth among states in per-capita deaths in 2018.

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Although many are looking to resume in-person social interaction at this time in the pandemic, many others are glad to be able to interact with others virtually.

With coronavirus and other domestic challenges occupying the headlines, foreign policy has largely been sidelined in Maine’s U.

The University of Maine will investigate how various parasites, including the winter tick, affect the state’s moose herd in a three-year project beginning next year.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Business of the Year award, Rowell’s Garage of Dover-Foxcroft.

On Monday, Sept.

Clair Hall has always lived along the bank of the Piscataquis River in a family home where the town line between Dover and Foxcroft diagonally divided the kitchen until the towns merged in 1922.

AUGUSTA — Maine’s high court on Thursday agreed to put on hold a ruling allowing ranked-choice voting to be used in the state’s presidential election after Republicans appealed the decision to strike down a people’s veto challenge.

Incumbent Maine Senate District 4 Sen.

One of the best things about a Maine moose hunt is the fact that those adventures typically happen miles from paved roads, in some of the state’s wildest places.

Leaf peepers, start your engines.

AUGUSTA — Gov.

The Penquis Sex Trafficking Action Response Team (START) will host a free online film screening of “Gridshock,” a documentary about human trafficking, followed by a panel discussion with local experts on Tuesday, Sept.

All people in Maine who think they need a coronavirus test are now eligible for one under a state order meant to increase access to tests.

AUGUSTA — Ranked-choice voting will be used in the presidential election in Maine this fall after the state’s high court ruled that Republicans did not gather enough valid signatures to put forward a people’s veto effort challenging the voting method.

ORONO — For middle and high school students in some forest-dependent rural communities in Maine and Oregon, a lack of money for education is the top barrier to pursuing the career they want, according to a survey of more than 2,000 youth by researchers at the University of Maine and Oregon State University.