AUGUSTA (AP) — Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King say that a Maine-based organization is getting $750,000 to train new groups of farmers. The senators say the grant — awarded to the Portlandbased group, Cultivating Community by the U.S. Department of Agriculture — will fund a project designed to help immigrants who are socially disadvantaged […]

GREENVILLE (AP) — Maine state officials want residents to give them ideas for management of public lands in the state’s Moosehead region. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Bureau of Parks and Lands will hold a meeting in Greenville on the forthcoming Moosehead Region Management Plan. The region includes the Little Moose, Days […]

UNITY (AP) — The Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund is giving $15,000 to Unity College to study the population of black bears in central Maine. The college says the grant will allow researchers to investigate density, home range and dispersal of the bears. The money supports the third year of a multiyear project that provides the […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Augusta police are investigating a double stabbing, but say the victims are not being cooperative. Sgt. Eric Lloyd says the stabbings at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday appear “to be a mutual assault” involving two men. He says officers were called the Stewart Lane home by a neighbor. The Kennebec Journal reports that […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine state police say 2014 remains the safest year on Maine highways since World War II despite finalized data that show a slightly higher total of highway fatalities than initially believed. State police spokesman Steve McCausland says 131 people died in highway traffic crashes last year. State police said in late December […]

AUGUSTA (BDN) — Police continue to search for a man who allegedly robbed a pharmacy late Saturday afternoon. The man, whose face was mostly covered, entered the Rite Aid pharmacy off Bangor Street at 5:41 p.m., according to Augusta police Sgt. Vicente Morris. The man demanded drugs, according to police, and fled on foot after […]