QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Courtney Gary-Allen, executive director of the Maine Recovery Action Project, on Bangor not distributing more of its opioid settlement funds.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
A Bangor man with multiple sclerosis has been searching for an accessible apartment in Bangor for two years. The 39-year-old Marine veteran’s situation reveals how difficult it is to find housing in the city that can accommodate those with mobility limitations.
Maine’s congressional offices are fighting ICE to get immigrants’ documents back. Immigrants who were detained are seeking help retrieving personal documents, like work permits and passports, that weren’t returned when they were released.
The owner of a Katahdin-region outdoor center is hoping to expand the site’s complex to include a resort and nearly 100 units of housing. The development would be added to existing cabins and event spaces owned by the New England Outdoor Center.
Fatal overdoses rose in Bangor and Penobscot County as more than $2 million in opioid funds went unspent. Penobscot County is the only Maine county that saw more suspected and confirmed fatal overdoses in 2025 than in 2024.
The first local owner of Aroostook Centre Mall has turned the property around in less than three years. The building was drowning in debt and losing nearly $2 million a year when Dana Cassidy bought it, but he’s nearly doubled the number of businesses there and is on his way to turning a profit.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Struggling Maine homeless shelters seek permanent funding source
- Man turns himself in after allegedly firing gunshots at 3 CMP substations
- Here’s everything you need to know about the 2026 Maine high school basketball tournament
- Susan Collins backs Republican voting bill but opposes changes needed to pass it
- Bucksport stuck with $90K in legal bills after 5-year motel saga resolved
- A rare piece of Maine oceanfront property under $1M is for sale in Lubec
- See where Maine’s outsized share of $460M in federal earmarks is going
- ‘Excellent’ conditions expected for 7th annual Acadian Pond Hockey Classic
- Police arrest 2 men in separate Penobscot County domestic violence cases
- Hermon woman charged with manslaughter 4 months after fatal bridge crash
- Graham Platner says Democrats should have used pressure to pass their agenda
- Maine high school hockey team can play rest of season, but without same coaches
- US ocean regulator faces criticism over changes to right whale protection rule
- Bangor water main break causes detour, road closure on Ohio Street
- New Hampshire woman killed in Jackman snowmobile crash
- Meet the volunteers prepping 250 miles of trails for Maine’s biggest sled dog race
- Ellsworth girls deliver 1st big upset of the tournament with epic comeback late
- Houlton’s surveillance cameras are gone, but where is the data?
- UMaine women’s basketball has 4-game winning streak snapped
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“I think Trump’s approval rating should be zero. And the fact that it isn’t makes me despair of this country.”
Opinion: Have you no sense of decency, America?
LIFE IN MAINE
6 more weeks of winter? These crazy birds don’t care.
This ‘little’ mountain in western Maine is a great winter trek.