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The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional debt before the agency moved to take the homes.

To use a 'Peanuts' analogy, our senator is like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown.

I was delighted to read the op-ed on chamber music and its many benefits in these challenging times (“Chamber music invites us to consider a new way of being,” July 11). Our innovative chamber music series, Vigorous Tenderness, works to break down barriers to classical music to welcome a more diverse audience than typical classical […]

A project 3 years in the making, the 28-foot Heron is among the first fully electric aquaculture boats of its size.

Not all prescriptions come in a bottle.

This year's performances include new iterations of two yearslong projects by dancers Onye Ozuzu and Gesel Mason.

Tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings were in effect in northern Maine on Thursday afternoon, and the NWS Caribou Office confirmed a funnel cloud was spotted over Beaver Cove on Moosehead Lake.

The life of a founding member of the department will be celebrated Saturday at the Spurr's Corner Station.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission said it would only select projects that would lower the cost of electrical generation and distribution for the state's ratepayers.

Christina Keilt gives half the credit to her husband for helping walk her through applying a tourniquet to his bleeding leg, working as a team.