Friday, March 29, 2024

“We feel this is going to protect all species for the future. I feel like it will protect things like bear baiting or deer hunting or whatever it is that was legal at the time the amendment was passed.”

— Jared Bornstein, executive director of Maine Hunters United for Sunday Hunting, on a ruling by Maine’s high court Thursday. While the justices upheld Maine’s ban on Sunday hunting, their ruling clarified that hunting is among the activities protected under the 2021 right-to-food amendment.

Today’s Top Maine Stories

Maine’s highest court upheld the Sunday hunting ban. Arguments revolved around the 2021 right-to-food amendment to the Maine Constitution and whether the word “harvest” applies to animals.

Cornell knocked UMaine out of NCAA hockey tournament. Things began poorly for the Black Bears when starting freshman goalie Albin Boija came down with an illness and couldn’t play.

Donald Trump quietly continues his court fight against Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. It signifies his desire to clear his name ahead of his November rematch with President Joe Biden.

MaineHealth wants to convert a historic railroad building into housing. If the plans go through, it would be MaineHealth's largest foray into residential housing development.

A town an hour from Portland is leading its region on housing. The town of 5,600 issued 80 new building permits last year, data show.

A Different Point of Brew Bistro is gearing up to open in Houlton next month. Owners Shyann Miller and Shelby Fitzpatrick want it to become the new hangout spot.

Maine in Pictures

More News From Around the State

• The state of Maine is under a flood watch

• Tribes feud with Janet Mills on nominees to state body overseeing historic settlement

• Bangor building added to National Register of Historic Places

• Graduate student union demands UMaine System negotiate a fair contract

• Down East man accused of killing his father with scissors dies at Portland jail

• Neighbors protest proposed Ellsworth courthouse location

• Tractor-trailer crashes in Naples

• Inspectors find cockroach infestation at Maine motel housing asylum seekers

• Workers at Long Creek say inadequate staffing is creating unsafe conditions

• A Maine brewery is closing after more than 10 years

• Former school bus driver from Maine pleads guilty to stalking 8-year-old boy

• UMaine baseball team loses DH Goodman for season due to knee injury

From the Opinion Pages

Life in Maine

Maine State Library distributed more than 4,500 pairs of faulty eclipse glasses. Before you lay eyes on the sun, here’s how to make sure your glasses are safe.

Last weekend’s snowstorm delivered proof that winter is over. Bangor Daily News birding columnist Bob Duchesne knows because a little bird told him so.

New to gardening? Here are four things you can do right now. (The first is to find out what growing zone you’re in.)

Should you need to call a porcupine, here's how to make a porcupine call.

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