Winging it: Local restaurants make tough choices as price soars for chicken wings

Some central Maine bars and eateries are canceling "wing nights" or takeout, while feeling the heat from customers complaining as menu prices increase.

Tyson raising workers’ pay to keep up as demand for chicken takes flight

The company cites government stimulus payments, enhanced unemployment benefits, health concerns and lack of child care as factors for high absenteeism and worker turnover.

Photo: Boys and their birds

Waterville council takes first vote to loosen chicken requirements

The City Council on Tuesday voted 5-2 to decrease the required minimum lot size for keeping chickens from 10,000 to 8,000 square feet and are scheduled to take a final vote Dec. 15.

Waterville business owner says late-night crowd urinates, defecates in street

Business owner John Fortier pleaded with the Waterville City Council to do its "due diligence" and address the problems, which include drug dealing and people jumping on his business roof.

Chicks shipped by mail are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars

Several Maine poultry farms have received shipments of hundreds of chicks that died while being delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, either because the shipments were delayed or mishandled.

Fowl business: Lewiston chicken owners confused about ordinance

A little-known 30,000-square-foot requirement has residents in the city wasting money on coops, and having to lay off their birds.

Lewiston’s ‘Chicken Cheat Sheet’

Animal Tales: Durham family picks chickens for tick fix

The Silicon Valley elite's latest status symbol: Chickens