Learn more. COVID-19 is spreading faster in three rural Maine counties than nearly anywhere else in the United States. Franklin County in western Maine has the fourth highest per-capita rate of ...

As Maine State Police refocuses its efforts more on patrolling the interstate, it is limiting or pulling out of rural patrol coverage all together in some counties such as Somerset and Oxford ...

Maine’s rural residents, increasingly worried about public safety and rising taxes, are hoping county and state officials also can learn that lesson, and it’s becoming critical that they do.

The state will establish two new public defender offices covering Aroostook, Piscataquis and Penobscot counties ... positions across communities in rural Maine and advances my commitment to ...

A new statewide profile of rural health revealing significant disparities between Maine’s urban and rural counties set the stage for a daylong series of panel discussions in Bangor on Thursday ...

Sheriffs' departments throughout the state have long relied upon the Maine State Police to supplement patrol coverage in rural areas. But with a change in mission, that assistance is steadily ...

But the rural north of the state shows the effort has played out unevenly. The highway to Caribou in Aroostook County, Maine, near the Canadian border.Credit... Supported by By Callie Ferguson ...