The body pulled from the Penobscot River last Friday has been positively identified as that of David Breunig, the 21-year-old Westbrook man who disappeared in Orono Feb. 26, authorities said ...

BANGOR, Me., Saturday, April 1. The ice left the Penobscot River last night, and navigation is now open to this city.

The Search for Big Salmon in a Little-Known Fishing Paradise Maine’s Penobscot River isn’t an easy place to get to. But it’s well worth the trouble—for both its fishing and its beauty.

(CBS News) BANGOR, Maine -- For the first time in 200 years, the Penobscot River in northeastern Maine is running free. Billed as the largest river restoration project in the country, it took 10 ...

Officials counted more than 1,500 of the salmon in the Penobscot River, which is home to the country's largest run of Atlantic salmon, Maine state data show. That is the most since 2011 when ...

ON THE PENOBSCOT RIVER, Maine—As any fisherman will tell you, small fish are better than no fish. But I didn’t come here for the little guys. Ask around in knowledgeable fly-fishing circles ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - The Maine Discovery Museum has a new exhibit. “This is River in Our Backyard, and it’s about the Penobscot River watershed, which is, you know, one of the biggest ...

A 12-year-old boy from Maine who had been missing for hours was found dead, with divers pulling his body from a river.

A two-decade legal battle over mercury pollution in the Penobscot River estuary has come to an end, with a court-approved settlement that’s expected to cost between $187 million and $267 million.

ORONO — University of Maine researchers are seeking to gain more insight into river herring recovery in the Penobscot River using a novel surveying tool: environmental DNA (eDNA). eDNA is the ...