By Christopher Bouchard, St.

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.

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.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — As a way to supplement an increased emergency call volume and staffing challenges currently being experienced by Northern Light Mayo Emergency Medical Services, the town of Dover-Foxcroft is proposing the creation of a municipal EMS department to supplement that of the hospital.

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 Ethan Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff Police confiscated roughly 2,000 marijuana plants Friday, Feb.

MILO — The Milo Fire Department has located a vehicle that would replace a more than 40-year-old ladder truck.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The process to move the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center from cramped conditions in the Piscataquis County Jail in Dover-Foxcroft into the administrative unit of the sheriff’s office in Guilford has begun.

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County is taking a step forward in its controversial years-long effort to build a new jail by seeking to buy land for the project.

By Ethan Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff The Internal Revenue Service has extended deadlines for people in 10 Maine counties affected by the severe storms and flooding that started on Dec.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine saw a 16 percent decline in fatal overdoses last year.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff President Joe Biden has declared the wind storm that lashed Maine in December a major disaster.

This secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine’s congressional delegation has renewed its calls for the U.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff The man who died in a Jan.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — In the fall the Dover-Foxcroft Select Board began the process of dealing with a deteriorating property at 130 Pleasant Street.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Last year, Maine saw the fewest deaths on the road since 2014.