Calais News

A 44-year-old Baileyville woman was seriously hurt at approximately 8 p.m. Thursday when an ATV she was riding apparently went into reverse and went down an embankment at an Alexander gravel pit, according to a press release from the Maine Warden Service.

The city turns 200 this year and a bang-up birthday party has been planned. Volunteers have been working on the bicentennial celebration since last year with Frank Becker at the helm along with a lot of other dedicated folks.

Hannah McGee told her classmates Monday to shine like the sparkler she lit at the New Brunswick Community College graduation ceremony in St.

A 15-year-old boy riding a bicycle was injured Sunday after he apparently ran through a stop sign and smashed into the side of a pickup truck.

The events unfolding in Iran over the last few days may be the period history will mark as the awakening of that nation's moderate, democratic-minded citizens.

Recently we honored our mothers, and the third Sunday in June we celebrate Father's Day.

Yet, nearly a quarter of the area's residents have low literacy rates, which often means they are underemployed and, too often, in jail.

BANGOR, Maine a ' A Robbinston man was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to six months in prison for selling at least 20 guns illegally to a Canadian man.

The need to show detailed identification at U.S. border crossings will not stop Americans from visiting Canada, Real Robichaud, executive director of the Tourism Industry Association of New Brunswick, said Tuesday.

These memories are a provincial treasure, a rich tapestry of humanity and part of the shared legacy of Western New Brunswick's participation in the rum-running trade of the Prohibition years.

These memories are a provincial treasure, a rich tapestry of humanity and part of the shared legacy of Western New Brunswick's participation in the rum running trade of the Prohibition years.

I am curious as to why the Bangor Daily News would allow so many racist and homophobic comments to stand, yet appears to be very vigilant about removing posts concerning "activist commenters" posting under multiple usernames.A Even under the story about the Doctor who was murdered by a Christian fanatic, many comments justifying this political ...

AUGUSTA, Maine a ' A Maine National Guard unit will be sent to Afghanistan next year.

PORTLAND, Maine a ' The family of an 18-year-old Portland murder victim has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the alleged killer and is seeking a court order that would essentially freeze his assets.

Maine took the first step Tuesday toward joining other states and cities that require restaurant chains to post calorie counts on their menus.

Instead of just asking for ID, American border guards began requesting passports today from anyone entering the United States.

BELFAST : A group of 22 French motorcyclists from Strassborg, France, visited Belfast on Friday & Saturday.

Two passers-by are credited by police with helping two passengers escape from a burning vehicle that crashed into a tree Saturday evening in the eastern Maine town of Baring.

It feels a bit like the countdown to Y2K in St. Stephen these days. Derwin Gowan/Telegraph-Journal Sherry Hatt of St.

A teenager from Calais is dead after his car slammed into a tree. Police say 16-year old Nicholas White was driving fast on Charlotte Road in baring around 6-40 Saturday night, when he lost control of the car and went off the road.