Sawyer Loftus

The findings offer some of the first hard evidence for something long suspected in Maine schools: reading instruction quality varies widely by district.

The Bangor Daily News will spend the coming months examining the public education system as part of a new, ongoing project to cover what it's like to be a kid growing up in Maine.

The findings offer some of the first hard evidence for something long suspected in Maine schools: reading instruction quality varies widely by district.

One candidate for governor has a detailed plan to change how Maine teaches reading. One has goals without specifics. One has not engaged with the question at all.

BANGOR, Maine — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders urged a crowd of more than 600 people to vote for Troy Jackson to help Democrats regain control of the U.S.

While President Donald Trump's administration hammers Maine over alleged Medicaid fraud, state prosecutors are frustrated by federal delays in two cases involving nearly $2 million in potential losses to taxpayers.

Maine prosecutors are frustrated by federal delays in two fraud cases involving nearly $2 million in potential losses to taxpayers.

For about eight months in 2004, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins was bound by two mortgages that each named a different house as her principal residence, one in Washington and one in Bangor.

Records show the senator’s mortgage pledges on homes in Bangor and Washington, D.C., overlapped for eight months in 2004.

Robert McBreairty Jr. has spent some 60 years harvesting timber in Maine's northern woods. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson worked for him more than a decade ago.