Bowdoin College

As Maine hospitals struggle with full ICUs and the state repeatedly breaks its own COVID-19 records, one college is taking a major step to keep students healthy. Bowdoin College in Brunswick will require roughly 3,000 eligible students, faculty and staff returning to campus for the spring semester to receive their COVID-19 booster shot by Jan. 21. The decision to mandate…

Maine’s Bowdoin College will require booster shots with a deadline set for next month.

Four colleges in Massachusetts and one in Maine are teaming up to fight climate change in a unique way. They’re all buying solar power together from what’s believed to be the largest solar project in New England. The effort is called the New England College Renewable Partnership and its participating institutions include Bowdoin, Smith, Hampshire and Williams colleges. Together,...

A 490-acre (200-hectare) solar energy farm in Maine is now online and connected to the regional power grid. The $110 million, 76.5-megawatt solar farm in Farmington is touted as the biggest in New England. NextEra is the developer of the solar project that will power close to 17,000 New England homes annually. “Seeing solar farms like this become operational helps…

New England schools ranked among the best in the nation in a new ranking of U.S. colleges released Monday. Harvard University in Massachusetts was again second on the list of the best national universities compiled by U.S. News & World Report, trailing only Princeton University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked fourth, Connecticut’s Yale University was fourth, New Hampshire’s...

A longtime employee at Bowdoin College gives new meaning to the notion of a “work-study” job.

The first lady of the Boston Marathon is running it again. The Boston Athletic Association, which organizes the race, says two-time champion and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson will be in the field on April 15. Benoit Samuelson was a 21-year-old Bowdoin College student when she set an American marathon record and a new women’s course record of 2...

A Maine man whose mysterious disappearance had baffled authorities has been found dead.

Police say it’s like someone planned the perfect disappearance. Daniel Gagnon, 26, of Brunswick, Maine was reported missing nearly one week ago, leaving behind no clues.

Out of a devastating storm has come an opportunity for college students in Puerto Rico.

Bowdoin College in Maine is offering guest semesters for students in areas ravaged by hurricanes.

Sen. Collins may change her stance on GOP tax plan

Speculation growing that the deal Sen. Susan Collins secured to support a tax bill is falling apart.

A man held captive in a North Korean prison in 2010 and freed with the help of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died in San Diego over the weekend after being found ablaze in a field.

Five days after the powerful windstorm that swept through New England, more than 60,000 power outages remain across the state of Maine.

A proposal at Harvard University would ban all fraternities, sororities and single-gender clubs starting in fall 2018, a measure that’s largely aimed at the school’s exclusive, all-male social clubs that have been blamed for problems with sexual assault and alcohol abuse.

As police responded to the attack at Ohio State University, school officials broadcast an ominous message to students with a set of instructions: “Run Hide Fight.” It’s a mantra that has become standard at colleges in the event of a campus shooting. Students near the assailant are urged to run somewhere safe, to hide from the shooter and, as a...

Nine people were injured after a male suspect rammed a car into a group of pedestrians at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, early Monday morning on Nov. 28, 2016.