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The Bangor State Fair is back, and this year seniors get in for just five dollars, every single day. That's a big deal, and there's a story behind how it happened.

Bar Harbor has no shortage of lobster rolls, but there's one spot hiding behind a storefront on Main Street that most visitors walk right past without knowing it's there.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy rolled into Nashua on a rainy July day, and one local pizza spot got the full One Bite treatment.

How many of these drives have you had a chance to take?

The incident happened in Belfast on Wednesday Night

The season Spirit Halloween stores are returning to Maine again this August with 4 locations spread across the state

Hundreds of thousands of people follow a vintage shop owner in Winthrop, Maine. The town has about four thousand residents.

Fort Popham has these ammunition rooms where the dark is so complete, your eyes never adjust, not even a little.

It started with a bean hole supper, moved to the waterfront, and somehow ended with a crowd of people doing their best loon impressions. Belgrade had a big weekend.

A former pottery café on Washington Ave just became one of Portland's more interesting dinner spots — and the menu is already doing some unexpected things.

Maine's August fair season hits different — livestock in the ring, funnel cake in hand, and a demolition derby that'll have the whole family leaning forward in their seats.

A movie theater with heated loveseats, no commercials, and a self-serve beer and wine wall just opened in Foxborough — and it replaced a spot a lot of people remember well.

From hidden swimming holes to secret bars behind bookshelves, here are some of the most magical places Maine has to offer.

The latest report from WalletHub gives Maine high marks, ranking it as the seventh-best state in the nation for healthcare.

After more than 40 years operating in Freeport, Maine, the Polo Ralph Lauren Outlet plans to permanently close

Somewhere between the dew still on the bushes and a toddler's purple-stained fingers, something pretty sweet is happening out in Norridgewock this Tuesday morning.

The boat was spotted in Portland and MDI over the last few weeks

Nearly three years after it closed, the Starbucks location at the Maine Mall in South Portland is coming back

Four restaurants. Combined, they served their communities for decades. June 2026 was a quieter month than most for a handful of New Hampshire neighborhoods.

Hobby Lobby has fully committed to fall, the grocery store is pushing candy corn, and most of us are still trying to squeeze in one last beach day.

A 97.5 out of 100 is the kind of score that's hard to argue with, especially when it comes from a study that looked at thousands of campgrounds from coast to coast.

Curious who's employing the most Mainers? Thanks to the Maine Department of Labor, we have the list of the state's 10 largest private employers.

New York residents better check their feet.

From five-and-dimes to larger department stores, here's 18 different once-popular places in Maine that your kids have likely never heard of