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A pilot telehealth-based program “gets paramedics off the ambulance” so they can provide care wherever it’s needed. The initiative is already making a difference in northern Somerset County, and could be a model for other rural areas in Maine and elsewhere.

The Jackman program, which will allow trained paramedics to perform emergency care via telehealth, and a similar one in Winterport for primary care physicians may help close the rural health care access gap in Maine, officials say.

The federal agency has spent more than $234 million over the last five years, enhanced by a 2018 Maine bond issue, to upgrade wastewater systems across the state.

A bill delaying retail sales of marijuana and closing a potential loophole that could allow Mainers under age 21 to possess the drug received unanimous bipartisan approval Thursday, but Gov. Paul LePage said he won't sign the legislation into law until lawmakers authorize funding to support it.

The Winterport-based New England Salt Co. is hopeful that it will be expanding its Downeast operations of supplying road salt to communities in northern Maine and in the maritime provinces of Canada after inking a deal with Federal Marine Terminals, the operators of the port in Eastport.

George D. Carlisle, former president of timberlands management firm Prentiss & Carlisle in Bangor, has died at...

Commercial customers in Bangor Hydro Electric Co.’s service area are now able to take part in a...

The University of Maine's Forest Bioproducts Research Institute is building a $1.5 million plant to manufacture a...

Hampden-based Maine Trailer Inc. has received a Finance Authority of Maine-backed loan of $2.25 million to help...

Bangor-based energy company Dead River Co. is selling its 19 convenience stores to Circle K of Quebec.Vice...