The population of Maine as a whole and 10 of the state’s 16 counties is rising, as is the number of people moving into the state and into 14 counties, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which released its 2018 population estimates Thursday.
ORPC Inc., a Portland-based company that designs and sells turbines that use river or ocean water to generate energy, on Wednesday unveiled its first commercial system for use on rivers.
A communications official at Northern Light Acadia Hospital in Bangor mistakenly emailed the confidential names of 300 patients with prescriptions for Suboxone, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder, to an editor at the Bangor Daily News last week.
A group of Bangor surgeons has opened a new outpatient surgery center near the Bangor Mall that allows them to more easily do advanced types of surgery, in particular same-day knee, hip and shoulder replacements.
When Sarah Newcomb was growing up in Orono in the late 1980s and 1990s, she always felt like a misfit — like she was less-than.
Deep in the ocean off the Pacific Northwest colonies of unusual microbes thrive in an environment otherwise hostile to life. It’s these ancient microbes that scientists say may hold clues to the evolution of life on our planet — and beyond.
Seniority is a novelty at the Maine State Prison.
Has a pothole popped your rim? Does rough pavement make the trip to work or school a funhouse ride? Tell the Maine Better Transportation Association about it and be eligible for a grand prize of $529.
State police have arrested three people — including two teenagers — in connection with the death of a 38-year-old Lewiston man after a brawl there last June, a spokesman said Thursday.
Vaccination rates among schoolchildren continued to drop in Maine this school year, when the share of kindergartners receiving one required vaccine dropped for the third straight year, according to data from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
