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Proposed Versant rate hike spurs outcry from Aroostook customers

By Paula Brewer and Paul Bagnall on Mar 29, 2023 05:54 pm
Aroostook County residents told the Maine Public Utilities Commission Wednesday they can’t afford another electric rate hike.
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Juvenile missing from West Virginia foster home located in Portland

By Leela Stockley on Mar 29, 2023 05:51 pm
The juvenile, who is not being named, was reported missing from the foster care home in Hillsboro, West Virginia in September.
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Impending Old Town mill shutdown leaves questions about city’s future

By Valerie Royzman on Mar 29, 2023 05:12 pm
Community members are still processing ND Paper’s decision to shut down the Old Town pulp mill for an extended period and what it means for the city.
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Orono’s Dirigo Search and Rescue team disbanding after 54 years

By Kathleen O'Brien on Mar 29, 2023 04:32 pm
Dirigo Search and Rescue will close in November due to its dwindling and aging membership.
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Bar Harbor man with 41-year criminal history gets 2 years behind bars in assault case

By Bill Trotter on Mar 29, 2023 04:26 pm
Thomas Owen Alley, a commercial real estate investor in Hancock County, has been ordered to serve three years of probation upon release.
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Pope to be hospitalized for days with respiratory infection

By The Associated Press on Mar 29, 2023 04:07 pm
The 86-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, doesn't have COVID-19 a spokesperson said Wednesday.
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Fewer manatees starved to death this winter thanks to 400,000 pounds of lettuce

By The Associated Press on Mar 29, 2023 03:37 pm
Wildlife officials have only recorded 163 manatee deaths this season, thanks in part to feeding the mammals whose food source is threatened by pollution.
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Driver who crashed into Massachusetts Apple store charged with murder

By The Associated Press on Mar 29, 2023 03:06 pm
Bradley Rein, 53, was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday on charges stemming from a fatal crash on Nov. 21, 2022.
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Maine sues 3M and DuPont for PFAS contamination ‘in pursuit of profit’

By Michael Shepherd on Mar 29, 2023 02:44 pm
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey claims the companies willfully introduced toxic chemicals that they knew were harmful into the state.
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Susan Collins and Angus King join Senate vote to repeal Iraq war authorization

By The Associated Press on Mar 29, 2023 01:37 pm
Iraqi deaths are estimated in the hundreds of thousands, and nearly 5,000 U.S. troops were killed in the war.
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