Houlton News

Took a Leap Farm is a small Nigerian Dwarf dairy goat farm located just outside of Houlton, Maine.

One of the most interesting economic development ideas to come down the pike in awhile is Peter Vigue's plan for an east-west highway across the heart of Maine, running from the Maritime provinces to Sherbrooke, Quebec, where it would connect to major highways serving the American Midwest.

A Mars Hill man who was sought by Maine State Police for nearly a month in connection with a woman's vicious beating has requested a jury trial.

Houlton - A man from Orient charged in connection with a triple homicide in Amity is going to jail for four years.

AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine Forest Service Forest Rangers, under the Maine Department of Conservation, this week collaborated with several Houlton area groups to conduct a roadside cleanup effort throughout the Aroostook County town.

Lacey A. Malone, 25, Houlton, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, prison 364 days, all but 30 days suspended, probation one year.

Latest report : it's going to be FUN: June 2, 4-9 PM. Games, prizes, cotton candy, pop corn, petting zoo, Smokey the Bear, mystery guests: celebrities and performers, food, music with DJ Express, lots of crazy dancing, maybe some Karaoke.

Officials from local, state and national law enforcement agencies paused for a moment in Aroostook County on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, to honor fallen officers and remember their sacrifice.

I wish my parents had blamed my average high school math and science grades on someone other than me.

AUGUSTA, Maine – A Oakfield logger has been ordered to pay more than $5,000 in restitution for failing to pay a landowner for harvested trees.

The envelope resembled those that contain rewards coupons or important tax information or even checks - the mailers with tabs on the edges reading: "Remove both side stubs first.

The man convicted of killing three people in Aroostook County is scheduled to be sentenced next month.

ORIENT, Maine - An Orient man will appear before a judge on May 23 to determine how long he will be behind bars in connection with the murder of three people in Amity almost two years ago.

Black Hawk Putnam of Houlton organized Co. E, 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment, and led his men to war in Virginia in March 1862.

Attorney Torrey Sylvester and his client, Kirk Gould, 42, listen as Gould is sentenced on two counts of gross sexual assault in Aroostook County Superior Court in Houlton in August 2009.

A suspect in a double homicide in Massachusetts was apprehended Wednesday morning after he tried to cross the border into Canada at Woodstock, New Brunswick.