MILLINOCKET, Maine — A malfunctioning heat lamp was cited as the cause of a fire that gutted a garage Sunday on Maine Avenue. Millinocket Fire Chief Wayne Campbell said firefighters were called … more

SPRINGFIELD, Maine — A winner has come forward with a winning lottery jackpot ticket that was sold at a northern Maine store. The winning Tri-State Megabucks ticket, worth $550,000, was sold at … more

SPRINGFIELD, Maine — If you bought a Megabucks lottery ticket at Smith’s General Store on Wednesday night, you might be $550,000 richer and not even know it. more

The future of public education in northern Penobscot County likely will be shaped for the next decade by a series of public hearings that starts Wednesday. more

ORRINGTON, Maine — When Fire Chief Mike Spencer took the post in 2005 he was given the task of creating a completely new municipal department — Orrington Fire and Rescue — from the ashes of the town’s two volunteer fire and ambulance departments. more

SPRINGFIELD, Maine - If you bought a Megabucks lottery ticket at Smith’s General Store on Wednesday night, you might be $550,000 richer, and don’t know it yet. more

BUCKSPORT, Maine - A local man and his son escaped unharmed from a fire that destroyed their home late New Year’s day. According to a report form the Bucksport Fire department, the call came in … more

DEXTER, Maine — A dispute over the location of a primitive boat launch on Lake Wassookeag that is near the public water intake system is headed back to court. The boat launch has been used over the years by owners of larger boats who can’t gain access to the big lake from the state’s boat launch on the smaller part of the lake because it is restricted by limited clearance under the bridge that connects the two. more

BELFAST, Maine — A former Medway selectman has been indicted on charges of manslaughter and aggravated driving to endanger for causing an accident in Monroe last fall that claimed the life of a … more

MEDWAY, Maine — Daniel Deschaine might not be alive today had not a Millinocket man put a tourniquet on his left leg after he was stabbed in the parking lot of a Millinocket bar last week. more

ENFIELD, Maine — College scholarships. New equipment purchases. Fire station expansions. Food pantry donations. more

MEDWAY, Maine — Daniel Deschaine might not be alive today had not a Millinocket man put a tourniquet on his left leg after he was stabbed in the parking lot of a Millinocket bar last week. “If … more

BANGOR, Maine — Music, vintage movies, dancing and consuming vats of hot chocolate and candy were some of the ways that people in downtown Bangor rang in the New Year. And with 10 official … more

DEXTER, Maine — With the assistance of Dover-Foxcroft and Newport police, Dexter police have recovered the three Polaris snowmobiles that were stolen from Acadia and Pleasant streets over the … more

BANGOR, Maine — Two men arrested Saturday in the Houlton area have been charged in U.S. District Court in Bangor with violating immigration laws. One man is charged with being in the country … more

MEDWAY, Maine — Greg Stanley has worked on the plan to regionalize Katahdin region schools, but he cannot support it despite a recent state decision that eliminates a major snag, he said … more

CARMEL, Maine — A Nova Scotia man escaped serious injury Tuesday morning when he lost control of his car on the slippery northbound lane of Interstate 95 and wound up upside down in the highway … more

BANGOR, Maine — John Bishop, a 33-year newspaper veteran who helped usher Bangor Publishing Co. into the computerized era in the 1980s and retired in 2003 as the company’s vice president, died … more

PALMYRA, Maine — Slippery road conditions early Tuesday were blamed for an accident on Interstate 95 that injured a Carmel woman. Joan Small, 74, lost control of her late model Cadillac about … more

A map, at its most basic level, is a navigation tool to get its users from Point A to Point B. At times, however, a map can be elevated to a lifesaver of sorts, delivering the lost from unfamiliar … more