A serious crash that occurred near Harbor Park on Dec. 18 and sent four people to the hospital has led to one fatality.

There have been important recent actions relating to the status of Maine's two native eagles: a federal Christmas present for ...

ELLSWORTH — Freya Arlene Curtis, the first baby born in 2025 at Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital, arrived at 8:43 a.m. on ...

The high school track and field regular season is closing in on its halfway point, and many of the area's standouts have produced strong times and distances over the first ...

Like most, this past year had its share of ups, downs, controversies and curiosities. Hancock County saw devastating storm ...

This week we welcome the arrival of 2025, and with it the start of The Ellsworth American’s 175th year of publication. Maine’s oldest weekly newspaper launched in 1851 and in ...

If you’ve driven through Searsport in the past couple of years, you know the community’s downtown has undergone an ...

In a sweeping reversal of decades-old laws reducing or eliminating public workers’ Social Security benefits because they ...

The plan is to extend it all the way up to the Central Street neighborhood so you can actually make a loop around the block ...

ELLSWORTH — Former Lamoine resident Spencer Trott was so traumatized by a July 19, 2023 attack by his former coworker and ...

The Eagles' boys picked up a dual meet victory over Brewer/Hampden Academy in a meet held at the Bangor YMCA while the ...

Nine-year-old Skyler Ehrlich of Bar Harbor has taken third place in the 2023-2024 National Poetry Contest held by the ...