By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Winter ticks that plague juvenile moose are at one of the lowest levels researchers have seen in 11 years.

GREENVILLE — A promise made by hospital leadership, staff, and the community to be able to continue to offer quality health care for the Moosehead Lake Region has been kept with the opening of a brand new facility for Northern Light CA Dean Hospital.

AUGUSTA —The Maine Department of Education partnered with News Center Maine to highlight the voices of teachers and school staff sharing why they #LoveTeaching during a weeklong national campaign.

A dog named Pua, who captivated a small Maine town when he went missing last June, is up for adoption to someone who will continue his training to become a therapy dog.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff EXETER — A barn on Brown Road in Exeter burned flat Saturday, Feb.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff More than 9,800 marijuana plants were seized by police across Maine in less than a week.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Elyse Nutter of Sebec, a senior at Foxcroft Academy, has been selected to receive the 2024 MPA Principal’s Award.

AUGUSTA – Five history students from Greenville Consolidated School journeyed to Augusta recently to see Maine’s government in action.

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By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff There were two snowmobile crashes and three sleds through the ice or into the open water recently on Moosehead Lake, according to the Rockwood Fire Department.

By Zara Norman, Bangor Daily News Staff When the Moonspring Hermitage was added to the National Register of Historic Places, it represented a milestone for a list largely populated with much older homes.

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff The Maine Land Use Planning Commission denied a Canadian mining company’s rezoning application for a proposed mine on Pickett Mountain in northern Penobscot County.

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaseli, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff After a year of extensive analysis, the Maine Land Use Planning Commission is scheduled to make a final decision on the Wolfden Pickett Mountain Mining project on Wednesday morning.

By Zara Norman, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — Federal teams are on the ground to get aid to homeowners, renters and small businesses after storms that battered Maine in December and January with other programs likely coming from the state to fill gaps.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff A feature film version of Donn Fendler’s classic survival memoir “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” will be released in cinemas and on streaming this summer, according to two of its producers.

By Zara Norman, Bangor Daily News Staff Some of the most unique properties on the market in Maine are former hotels and bed and breakfasts, some of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Democrats from across Piscataquis County participated in caucuses on Sunday, Feb.

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