WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans overwhelmingly see major benefits to children playing organized sports, a new poll finds, but higher-income families are more likely to participate. Learning teamwork and ...

LEESBURG, Fla. (AP) — Cyn Doyle is a self-described political cynic. So when David Jolly, the Republican-turned-independent who is now running for Florida governor as a Democrat, swung through this ...

Lee III is an attorney representing a number of municipalities, the former chair of the Maine Ethics Commission and a retired adjunct professor in government and administrative science at Colby ...

Complaints appear to be driven in part by the online crowdsourced database DeFlock, which lists nine license plate reading cameras in Bangor.

The number one priority of a government is to keep its citizens safe. On many fronts, the Trump administration is failing.” ...

Among other findings, voters are more concerned about Collins’ record of voting with Donald Trump than they are about Jackson being too progressive.

Lana Pelletier, the U.S. Senate candidate's partner of 40 years, now denies telling police that Jackson pushed her after a fight.

A shooting at a Georgia high school Wednesday left one student wounded, and a teenage suspect who fled was later taken into ...

Our political journalists are based in the Maine State House and have deep source networks across the partisan spectrum in communities all over the state. Their coverage aims to cut through major ...

Jenny Richardson-Rossbach holds her daughter, who wears a shark-printed onesie, at Lincolnville Beach on Wednesday. Richardson-Rossbach has been thinking about sharks a lot lately, she said, but ...

Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com As a practitioner of veterans disability law, it is important to me for our ...

Ellsworth is weighing a temporary ban on data center developments as many residents across Maine and the country have banded together to oppose the facilities that they fear will have devastating ...